Splice

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The Sunday evening viewing was Splice. This time hardly had a clue about it as it wasn't as advertised to death in the cinema's before hand.

Starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as geneticists who recombine DNA from various organisms to create ones that yield highly valuable genetic products. In the process, they create a creature with human DNA. The result is a humanoid creature with animal extremities, agility, tendencies you name it.

The first half of the movie was evocative and emotionally gripping as it left you contemplating the issues of attachment and sympathy to a part human entity. It was deeply moving and thought provoking realizing that a creature like that even though with human like cognition would be caged and studied had its existence been known. Leading one to wonder about the under developed nature of human mentality, society and how long it would be before bureaucratic and financial aspirations would cease to be the governing and driving factors.

From such profundity the plot deteriorated to a typified sci-fi horror flick with some scenes that had the audience in throes of laughter. Fans of the Aliens/Species rave might approve of it but I for one found it unpalatable.