I still remember fall 2000. It was shortly after volleyball practice and I just got home. Sitting on the floor of my basement was a glorious giant box with......a desk top computer. This was back in the days of AOL instant messenger and that dreaded dial up sound. Looking back, I never realized then just how quick the rate of technological advancement would be. I mean even as we speak, I am typing on a miniature laptop called a tablet, my smart phone is next to me, and my Internet connection is constant. This isn't even all of what technology can do. So take our advancements and then look at what possibilities and soon to be realities we have. Computers who cure diseases, computers who do work for us, nanotechnology that is capable of correcting or healing if you will, are all within our reach. For some, this is scary, and for others, exciting. For Dr. Will Caster, it is inevitable.
Dr. Caster and his wife have dedicated their lives to nanotechnology and creating a system that helps restore life. Their research has been on plants and eventually monkeys, but when Dr. Caster is shot resulting in a deadly infection, they have no choice but to begin human trials on him. Dr. Caster physically dies, but his brain is uploaded and transcended to a computer. His wife would have done anything to keep her husband, but what she doesn't realize is what chaos she has just started.
The longer time passes, the more power Dr. Caster needs. He is uploaded to the internet and has access to all information. Before long, he and his wife are running a small town with a lab that is quite extraordinary. This lab evolves as so does Dr. Caster. What starts as curing cancer, blindness, healing injuries, then turns into creating human like characters via nanotechnology. Soon everything is synthetic, even the water. His wife sees this and begins to fear him along with his practices.
Meanwhile, the group of individuals who shot him are working hard to ensure he is stopped. This group has been attempting to get back to the truest forms of living where people truly connected. They will stop at nothing to cease the rapidly growing advancements of Dr. Walter. This will entail getting the government involved, a friend of Dr. Caster, as well as his wife. In the end the only person who can stop him is the one who started this in the first place and doing so will most likely kill her husband.
This film was fascinating to me as it didn't seem too far from from where we are now. It tended to be slow at parts, but overall kept me engaged. The theme was that I loved the most. This whole need to feel connected takes away human connection. A definite must see.
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