Continuity mistake: When Alan Hakman talks to the young girl Isabel and she gives her speech about how great her dad is, she is looking directly at him. At the end, when Fletcher is viewing the scene through Alan's eyes, Isabel gives the entire speech while looking down at the floor.
The Final Cut (2004)
Plot summary
Directed by: Omar Naim
Starring: Robin Williams, Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk
In the future, parents can pay to have their unborn children planted with a chip that records their life through their eyes. "Cutters" can then put together significant moments for the families of the deceased to watch to remember them by. This process is called "Rememory" and Alan H. Hakman (Robin Williams), a man traumatized by an incident in his childhood, is the best cutter of the Eye Tech Corporation. Allan is hired to prepare the final cut of the memories of the Eye Tech lawyer Charles Bannister. Fletcher(Jim Caviezel), an ex-cutter, wants Bannister's chip to bring down the company with the lawyer's misdeeds. While viewing the chip, among other things, Alan finds a man who could be a kid he thought he accidently killed as a young boy.
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More mistakes in The Final Cut
Fletcher: It's a strange profession you have, isn't it, Alan? You take people's lives, make lies out of them.
Alan Hakman: It's been a long time, Fletcher.
Fletcher: Eight years.
Alan Hakman: Well, I don't have time to catch up right now.
Fletcher: How can you handle it, Alan? People sleeping and shitting... people stealing from each other... manipulating each other. The obscenity.
Alan Hakman: I can't talk, I'm working.
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Answer: The movie provides no answer as to why the device was named "ZOE." However, one should note the word "Zoe" is actually a greek word for "life." Since the ZOE implant records someone's life, this sounds like the most logical answer to why it was named ZOE. On a side note: The first device to display moving images was called the "Zoetrope", the similar name could have had further influence as to why this implant was named ZOE.
Kelsey H.