The Island is a
2005 science fiction film directed by
Michael Bay and starring
Ewan McGregor and
Scarlett Johansson. It was released on July 11, 2005 in the US. It was nominated for 3 awards including the Teen Choice award. It is described as a
pastiche of "escape-from-
dystopia" science fiction films of the 1960s and 1970s such as
Fahrenheit 451,
THX 1138,
Parts: The Clonus Horror, and
Logan's Run. Set in 2019, the movie's plot revolves around the struggle of Ewan McGregor's character to fit into the highly structured world he lives in, and the action-packed series of events that unfolds when he questions exactly how truthful that world really is. The film, which cost $126 million to produce, earned only $36 million at the
United States box office, but earned $127 million overseas, for a $163 million worldwide total.
Plot
It is 2019, and for the last three years, Lincoln Six Echo (
Ewan McGregor) has lived in a colony of uncontaminated humans, each awaiting their chance to go to the last habitable place on Earth, known as "the Island."
Lincoln is discontent and although he works and socializes well, he is known for being an outsider. During a meeting with Dr. Merrick (
Sean Bean), the leader of the area where he lives, Lincoln seems helpless to explain his feelings. He is frustrated by the plain white clothes everyone is given and the strict control over everyone's activities and habits. Concerned, Merrick asks to run tests on Lincoln, and inserts some robot probes into his eye sockets to monitor his activities for 24 hours. Lincoln learns that his best friend, Jordan Two Delta (
Scarlett Johansson), will soon be leaving for "the Island." Through an illicit visit to a construction area, Lincoln Six surreptitiously discovers that two former colonists, who were recently thought gone to the Island, are instead being subjected to brutal, ultimately fatal medical procedures and organ harvesting. He returns to the colony to rescue Jordan Two from a similar fate, but not before company chief Dr. Merrick discovers that Lincoln Six now knows the truth.
