grafxman You got your humans and robotic humanoids. There is a faction of humans that hates the humanoids. They derisively refer to them as clickers. All you have to do is think of the clickers as black folk and those against them as racists. Once you get that mind set, this movie ROCKS! Think about the rule that one drop of Negro blood makes you black. Suddenly the game becomes who's black and who isn't. Add all that together and this futuristic cerebral SciFi flick becomes absolutely terrific and unique. Be sure to watch the very last few seconds. Beware though, your head may explode. ;-O) Unfortunately this is a cheapo flick but don't let that put you off watching it. It's a very worthwhile film.

Verbal-9 It has high school level acting, dialog written by the teacher leading the school's acting club, and with sets barely rising to a college level production. But it has ideas, philosophy and even theology still unexplored in film making today. Not to say there is much explanation. This is not The Fountainhead where every idea is cause for a monologue.On top of that it expresses ideas like Asimov's Laws of Robotics withOUT a short lecture on their creation by Asimov -- not even giving his name. No other Hollywood writer has been able to do that. And it violates one of the laws in adherence to another without making the violation the substance of the story -- something even Asimov never achieved.The plot development is actually quite good without any contrived twists. Events early in the movie are part of the later plot. By the nature of the theme of the movie you know what is going to happen towards the end. It does but not in a way you would guess and again without a contrived twist hoping to make it surprising but in fact is only a twist introduced so as to advertise it has a surprise ending.When transfer of the soul comes up the answer is almost, "you can't have everything." No screenwriter today would dare not dwell upon the importance of the soul. Nor would any screenwriter today dare suggest all we are is a piece of brain tissue. These and many more ideas came fast with no lecturing and no moralizing. They are also discussed with the lack of emotion one expects from a high school play. These actors can't be all this bad. One gets the feeling there should have been at least one rehearsal.The ideas are worthy of Phil Dick but played without the angst. It has been a long time since I was intimately familiar with the Science Fiction literature of the 1950s and older but I do not recall any of the ideas even being mentioned earlier than this movie.If you are a science fiction fan and do not demand special effects and things that go boom in your movies this is for you. This movie could not be made today. Like The Cold Equations and Avatar today there would have to be an evil corporation behind it and schmaltz agonizing about the soul. And rest assured the premise would be climate change not nuclear war.See it soon.

mikelcat This is an above average sci-fi film without the usual special effects where the concept is the attraction , where you are asked to think about the possibilities .In this future man has all but destroy's himself , not to far fetched at all and humanoid robots are performing all the tasks man used to , even loving women .This of course makes the men that are left very afraid and ''The Order of Flesh and Blood ''is the agency that represents the fear of what man has done to himself .The humanoids are all about the good of man but man's blind fears blur this until the inevitable finally happens .This film is quite good and has a lot to say , give it a try and forget about cg and effects .Just let the film take its effect on you .Approach with an open mind !

junk-monkey What a peculiar, flawed little gem! Judged by any criterion this film shouldn't work at all. The script is insanely wordy and there is hardly action to speak of, for 75 minutes people just stand in a row across the screen and woodenly deliver screeds of expositional dialogue towards each other, often without any cuts or camera movements - sometimes, when there are cuts, the off screen dialogue is delivered by the other actor/s so straight and flat (almost as if they were just prompting) that it appears the editors either had no idea about sound editing or the director had given them nothing to edit together. The sets are minimal and flat, the costuming cheap, the score electronic 'Space Age' ooooeeeness seemingly unrelated to anything happening on screen.So far, so what? Sounds like every other cruddy 1950s / 60s lo no budget SF movie - it even starts with a montage of stock footage nuclear explosions. But what actually arrives on screen is an odd mix of genuinely novel SF ideas (I particularly liked the Human / Robot 'marriage' idea that sees one of the characters transferring aspects of her personality to a robot and then falling in love with the refection of herself) and a stream of philosophical ponderings and anti-prejudice messages that must have been mind-blowing to a teenage drive in audience of the time (if they had managed to stay awake long enough to see them). The plot has our central anti-hero character (an anti-hero in a cheap 60s SF movie in itself is a major oddity) is one of the leaders of a quasi-militaristic, group with growing influence over the police and government, dedicated to the preservation of MAN in a world where the already tiny population of a post holocaust Earth is declining due to radiation induced mutations and sterility. The group sees the ever more sophisticated Robots as a threat and agitates against them (think Brownshirts and Jews). Our 'hero' discovers a robot disguised as a human being and suspects a plot to replace real humans with replicas, then is told his sister is living openly with a robot she is in love with. He goes to visit her to put a stop to that sort of disgusting behaviour and meets a friend of hers. There is an immediate bond and the two fall in love - we discover (before they do) that both he and the girl are robot replacements implanted with false memories (this film was made in 1962, six years before Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was published), and the final shots hold out hope that the human race will allow themselves to be resurrected, one by one, in near indestructible robot form and that robots will soon have the ability to reproduce much in the same was as humans do now... cue end title...It's all pretty woodenly done and some of the writing is dreadfully dull but there are more SF ideas thrown out, and assumptions made, in this movie than in any dozen other more mainstream SF movies of the period. The film is unsurprisingly (but amazingly) adapted from a novel by Jack Williamson (at the time - as now - it was rare for Hollywood SF movies to be based on existing works). The movies main problem is that it looks just like it. A novel filmed.Apparently this was one of Andy Wahol's favourite films. It'll stand another watching.