Strangeblue on 10/8/2001 at 05:03

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Oh, that's ok, Seymour. Here, we'll tell ya all about it:

See, there's this guy named Deckard and he lives in this weird place where oragami animals come to life and run amok in the streets. Then they all mutate into humanoids, but under the skin they are still just oragami, though they believe they are "real boys". Deckard once was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp and has this unreasoning fear of oragami so, when the "replicants" -- the oragami animals which look like people -- start running amok, he is the only one who can regonize them and kill them with a special water-pistol which shoots streams of treated sweet-rice water and dissolves the replicants on the spot.

But, in a nasty twist of fate, Deckard discovers that the oragami animals really are real and that they have been his secret allies for years against a uprising of killer apes who live in an electronic zoo called "the Matrix" from which they have been plotting the overthrow of the human race... if they can just get enough terminals for the famous 1,000 monkies to use simultaneously to generate the code to unlock the secrets of the Net.

In the meantime, Deckard's ex-wife, who is not really his wife, but a bad actress supporting his implanted memory of having a wife while serching for the ultimate pair of thong panties, is colluding with the government to bring Deckard down. It seems that Deckard, might, himself, by an ape in Man's clothing, though he does not suspect it, and the government now fears that, as the replicants reveal the truth to Deckard about the apes he will begin to suspect that the government is infiltrated with them and no one is safe, especially not Deckard.

But, in a surreal dream-sequence, Deckard remembers his real love: a girl chimp who folded oragami animals in the POW camp and made up puppet shows with them to keep his mind and spirit from being broken by his captors.

In a true SFX extravaganza, Deckard finds and rescues his lady love, recognizes his true nature is to protect the innocent, regardless of race and undermines the Matrix so that all the apes are unable to type in the ultimate code. He turns over his rice-water pistol and runs away with his beloved Chimp to live free from the machinations of the corrupt government and far from any oragami-folding paper.

The ending leaves the question of the origami animals unresolved and implies that Deckard may, in fact, be one himself, his ape-ness also a function of memory implantation.... Is Deckard a replicant? or an ape? or a man? The film leaves us to ponder this and to wonder if it ultimately makes any difference to the morality and "humanity" of the individual.


So, there ya have it, Seymour. Hope I didn't break the suspense for ya.

Seymour_Gibbs on 10/8/2001 at 13:22

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Noooooooo!
I can see the interesting surrealism aspect of the plot though ;)

[ August 10, 2001: Message edited by: Seymour_Gibbs ]

Strangeblue on 10/8/2001 at 16:31

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Pesto and anchovy, by any chance?

*spits*

I was wondering what that strange taste in my mouth was this morning....

Rogue Keeper on 14/8/2001 at 12:01

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We're all skinjobs afterall... <IMG SRC="devil.gif" border="0">

Sombras on 14/8/2001 at 16:10

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Dunno if anybody else has gone down this road, but I always wondered if Gaff was that "missing" replicant.

**cough**Shoulda asked Edward Olmos when**cough**I hung out with him**cough**earlier this year**cough**. ;)