Anyway, enough with the rambling but straight to the point. A few years ago, Globo shown the series called O Clone, or in English, "The Clone". It has an interesting plot in the way that it questions various modern issues and also those of posthuman world.
Here is the synopsis:
The series has two storylines. One, that explores the impossible love between son of a magnate, Lucas and a Muslim of Moroccan descent Jade and the other story deals with Leandro, the unknowing clone of Lucas, growing up and trying to find the truth from his surrogate mother and her husband Augusto about his origins. It begins with Lucas' twin brother crashing in a helicopter, but their godfather Albieri (who is a genetics professor) cannot cope with the death very well and so he starts to experiment with cloning after doing a biopsy on Lucas' mole. But the eggs get mixed up and get artificially inseminated by mistake. The woman who chose to become inseminated, is unaware of the fact that she, in fact, became a surrogate mother to a clone. The novela progresses to see the clone growing up in a different environment from his father/brother Lucas, which makes him a totally different individual, even though they both share the same genes and even the same thoughts and interests. They later even begin competing over the love of the same woman.
While the plot has relation to our general project theme, I am particularly interested in the title sequence for the series, which can work as an experimental piece alone. I love the way they have represented the theme of cloning in such a simple yet beautiful way. It has a bit of performance art flavor to it and I love the way that the human form was used through out the clip.
Sorry for the abysmal quality!
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