The film "The Boys From Brazil" shows
the genetic experiment performed by a highly decorated Nazi doctor, and the
effort made by a Jewish investigator to stop him. The doctor cloned the genes of famous Nazi
leader Adolf Hitler, and genetically implanted them into the egg of a woman in
order to create another Hitler. With
such an unlikely main action, ideas may seem unimportant, but one can
nevertheless find a number of ideas in the film. One of the film's major ideas is that evil
will live forever. This idea is shown in
the careful planning of the doctor, the lengths the Nazis go to in order to
fulfill their plan, and the results of the human experiment.
The doctor's experiment involved years of careful
planning in order to create an
environment similar to Hitler's.
The doctor devoted his entire life to his research, which dated back to
the time of the Nazi camps. His main
goal was to clone the genes of Hitler and implant them in newborns. He performed many types of crude experiments
on the prisoners to test how much pain one could endure and what would improve
the human race. Hitler believed that a
perfect human race consisted of humans with blonde hair and blue eyes. Since the doctor believed in the ideas of
Hitler, he genetically engineered prisoners to have these qualities, along with
the people that worked at the doctor's home.
In order for the children to grow up looking, thinking, and acting like
Hitler, the doctor's planning necessitated precise planning. Along with the help of a nurse, he reviewed
the charts of thousands of parents wishing to adopt a child in order to find
family conditions that were similar to those of Hitler. All of this precise planning was the first
step in the doctor's goal of creating another Hitler.
The doctor cared too much about his experiment
and the Nazi cause to have someone or something ruin it. For example, when he saw one of his closest
Nazi aids at the party instead of on his planned mission, the doctor attacked
him, claiming that he was a traitor to his cause. The doctor was so passionate about his
experiment that he would kill one of his closest aides to see his experiment
completed. Once the doctor found out
that a Jewish investigator was interfering, he set out on a private mission to
kill him. Part of the doctor's plan was
to kill the fathers of the adopted babies at a certain time; yet one of the
fathers was fellow Nazi. This did not stop the doctor from having him
killed.
The result of the doctor's experiment proves
that evil will never die. Of the many
genetically altered children, we only see what happens to one of them. At the end of the movie, we see that the last
child is beginning to overcome his evil genetic makeup when his blue eyes turn
to brown. Yet, this may be a false
impression, for he is fascinated by the blood and death in the pictures he
took. It is scary that we never learn of
the outcome of the other Hitler children.
We only know that they give off impressions of anger and inner
hate. The results of the experiment
suggest that some of the Hitler children will grow up to be similar to Hitler
or have similar ideas of hate. If each
of the Hitler children grows up with the ideas of the Nazis, then they will
pass it their children and any other people with whom they come into
contact. If these people then adopt the
ideas of the Nazis, then they will pass them on, and so on, and so on, keeping
alive the ideas of hate and evil.
The idea of evil is not new or surprising. It is the subject of popular songs, stories,
other movies, and even a main theme of the Bible. The Nazis are definitely nothing new; they
have left an everlasting mark in the history of our world. This movie raises many questions about our
present day life: Is it possible to clone a madman's genes, is there a doctor
somewhere waiting for the right time to create another Mussolini or Vladimir
Lenin, will I awake tomorrow to find that a genetically engineered Hitler has
revitalized the Nazis and is attempting to conquer the world? These questions may seem far fetched, but in
this era of technological advancements, it seems very possible. The doctor's experiment engulfed his entire
life; it was his purpose in life. He set
forth to do everything he could to see that his experiment be a success,
including killing a fellow Nazi.
Although we can mock the likelihood of cloning of Hitler's genes, we
cannot look past the fact that evil is everywhere, and it assumes various forms. "The Boys From Brazil" is an example
of one of these forms- hate.
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