The Island (2005 film)
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller drama film directed by Michael Bay, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It was released on July 22, 2005, in the United States and was nominated for three awards, including the Teen Choice Award.
In the year 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. Their community is governed by a set of strict rules. The residents believe that the outer world has become too contaminated for human life with the exception of one contagionfree island. Every week, a lottery is conducted and the winner gets to leave the compound to live on the island.Lincoln begins having dreams that he knows are not from his own experiences. Dr. Merrick, a scientist who runs the compound, is concerned and places probes in Lincolns body to monitor his cerebral activity. While secretly visiting an offlimits power facility in the basement where his friend, technician James McCord, works, Lincoln discovers a live moth in a ventilation shaft, leading him to deduce that the outside world is not really contaminated. Lincoln follows the moth to another section, where he discovers that the lottery is actually a disguise to remove inhabitants from the compound, where the winner is then used for organ harvesting, surrogate motherhood, and other purposes for each ones sponsor, who is identical to them in appearance. ........
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