The Final Cut (2004 film)
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| Directed by | Omar Naim |
| Produced by | Nick Wechsler |
| Written by | Omar Naim |
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Robin Williams Mira Sorvino Jim Caviezel Mimi Kuzyk Stephanie Romanov Genevieve Buechner Brendan Fletcher |
| Music by | Brian Tyler |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Edited by |
Dede Allen Robert Brakey |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Entertainment |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States Canada Germany |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3,618,825 |
The Final Cut is a 2004 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Omar Naim. It stars Robin Williams, Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk, Stephanie Romanov, Genevieve Buechner and Brendan Fletcher. The film takes place in a setting where memory implants make it possible to record entire lives. Williams plays a professional who specializes in editing the memories of unsavory people into uncritical memorials that are played at funerals.
The film won the award for best screenplay at the Deauville Film Festival and was nominated for best film at the Catalonian International Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.
A brief introduction describes "cutters", who edit the collected memories of the recently dead into feature length memorials that are viewed by loved ones at funerals. Their code forbids them to have the requisite implant or to sell memories.
The film opens with Alan Hakman as a child. While visiting a city with his parents, he meets another boy, Louis, and the two bond as they play together. Louis reluctantly joins Hakman in exploring an abandoned factory, and Hakman crosses a wooden plank suspended high above the ground. Goaded by Hakman, Louis also attempts to cross the plank, but he loses his confidence and falls. Hakman races to the ground and panics when he steps in Louis' blood. Hakman flees the scene and tells no one what happened. Later that day, he leaves the city with his parents.
Years later, Hakman is a skilled cutter who specializes in editing the memories of controversial people into hagiographies. When Fletcher, a former cutter, confronts him at a funeral, Hakman describes himself as a sin-eater who brings redemption to the immoral. Fletcher offers him $500,000 for the memories of his latest client, wealthy businessman Charles Bannister, but Hakman refuses. In a later meeting, Fletcher demands the memory recordings so that he can use Bannister, whom he suspects was a pedophile, as a scandal to shut down EYE Tech. Hakman again refuses, and, worried for his safety, uses his knowledge from memory tapes to shake down a shady criminal for a pistol.
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