Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Movie Review: The Island is Logan's Run meets Coma? Pretty good actually. More chase and adventure than suspense, but still an interesting premise and reasonably executed.

Learned a new word through this movie too - agnate. It's being used more from its origin than the modern definition. Merriam-Webster says "a relative whose kinship is traceable exclusively through males, a paternal kinsman" but that wouldn't apply to the females, would it? The original latin isn't so heavily laden with our western patriarchal history: "agnatus, from past participle of agnasci to be born in addition to, from ad- + nasci to be born". Sure sounds like 'clone' to me. Interesting.

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