Deleting the frames – a grim vision of a posthuman human in «Splice» by Vincenzo Natali
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/3676Keywords:
controlled parameter, posthuman species, the uncanny, genetic experiments, normative heterosexual relationshipAbstract
Many visionaries have already attempted to approach the subject of a posthuman human from various perspectives. Still, Splice by Vincenzo Natali is an original point in case and it is worth noticing if only for the sheer number of different aspects which Natali tries to put together into a coherent whole and which may turn out to be very thought provoking, especially in the context of posthumanism. The main problem of the film concentrates around the eponymous splice, an experiment which ultimately leads to the creation of a brand new being. Constructed on the basis of a patchwork of DNA coming both from various animals and a human being, the creature gets out of control and, in the end, must be killed, which in itself seems to have serious moral ramifications. What leads to this tragic end is a fascinating story of humans crossing virtually all the boundaries regulating human community in normal conditions and so erasing, at least seemingly, well-established frames defining motherhood, sex, gender and the division into species.
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La camera blu is an open access, online publication, with licence CCPL Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported