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Similar film that I liked better, anyone else see it?


SELF LESS had a similarity to this. A group of powerful criminals achieve a form of immortality by having their consciousness transferred into other people's bodies. They are not clones but kidnapped people.

One very interesting difference is that unlike Sixth Day the person LOOKS completely different in the new body, and the actors have to be really good to pull off being the other character since the actor changes each time. The main hero in the story can only tell who the person is by "detective work". For example when he encounters a man with a fancy gold necklace he recognizes it as the necklace of a different person he killed earlier in the movie and realizes that the guy took back his necklace once he had had his mind transferred into a new body. One of the villains had a nervous tic and he remembered seeing the same nervous tic on a much older man earlier in the story and put two and two together and realized it was the same person.

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Haven't seen it, but the drive to transfer one's consciousness from body to body makes a LOT more sense than artificially reproducing a replica of yourself who will enjoy your life and accomplishments after you're cold in the ground.

The best use of cloning in The 6th Day was having a steady stream of matching henchmen who didn't need to be brought up to speed with each fresh iteration. But what kind of compensation would motivate a henchman clone to stick around under those circumstances?
"It costs me $1.4M every time you die."
"Big deal. I just want to live beyond the next four hours. 'Bye."

And no giant surprise that someone wouldn't be thrilled to have a spouse continuing on with a fresh, healthy, identical replacement after s/he died.

The step where you DIE is a definite hitch in the cloning scheme. Prolonging your life via successive exteriors would be a more logical goal. And probably a more interesting movie plot.

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Your argument that you DIE in that story and just get "replaced" by a duplicate reminds me of an argument about STAR TREK where every time a person teleports they are DESTROYED meaning they DIE and then just get replaced by an exact duplicate. The "duplicate" will never know there life started a minute ago with all of their memories inherited while their predecessor is DEAD its creepy.

In SELF LESS your mind, soul, consciousness whatever you want to call it is literally TRANSFERRED so it really is "you" in that story.

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