Review of Self/less (2015) by Sextet — 16 Sep 2021

Selfless is an good overall theme for this movie, don't you think?

If I had to compare this to any movies it would be The Island meets Limitless. I personally found this movie to be a welcome treat especially since it has to do with ultimately doing the right thing in the end. Ben Kingsley plays a man named Damian who is in the business of closing some of the best deals in real estate market (in New York I think). The audience soon discovers that he has no more then six months to live. He is given an invitation to look at an company that uses something called shedding technology. He ponders this decision and decides to go for it after asking a few questions of the owner of this shedding tech company. The company has a few conditions such as he die in a public place after he gets his final affairs in order. He flies to New Orleans and does just that after drinking a certain coffee in a New Orleans restaurant. Things get even moreover interesting from there. His mind gets put into the body of a young man played by Ryan Reynolds whom Damian was told was created in a lab. Damian starts to adjust to being in his new body slowly and finds that he is told to take a red pill everyday to ward off the side effects of the body transfer. He starts to see things such a people, places and things that he has never seen before thus showing the audience that this body once belonged to a real person and just wasn't created in a lab like a mindless human robot. Reynolds starts living hIs life in New Orleans in the so called highlife with one night stands in the nicest houses and coolest most expensive cars but pre life flashes still haunt him. Reynolds's becomes shocked and anger at the shedding company after he discovers the horrific truth that his new body is indeed someone else and not grown in a lab like some sort of human robot. To make a long story shorter he decides to stop taking the red pills by the movies end and previous owner of Ryan Reynolds body gets his life back in end. This is a movie that makes me think If I would choose the right thing in the end and give the life back to it's previous owner or would I shake it off and just live the rest of my.....his life like I was wearing a new very expensive suit. Just a few thoughts for us to ponder folks.