ABSTRACT
In the 2009 film Surrogates (dir. Jonathan Mostow) – a commercial flop in the United States – human beings, at some time in the near future, never leave their houses. The mechanical bodies that interact with the outside world are replicas, images, surrogates, and not real people. The few actual human beings are considered deviants, and are contemptuously referred to as “meat bags”: they are embarrassingly saddled with the weight and fragility of their bodies, with all their attendant physical and aesthetic limitations.
