There’s emotional manipulation, parental projection, a make-over scene, repressed trauma, and a little hybrid-human sexy fun time. The third act of Splice is a lively Petri dish of cinematic pizzazz. Also, at this point Dren (now played by Delphine Chanéac) is a young adult creature and is. Elsa and Clive decide to take Dren to Elsa’s old childhood home in the country to hide, stirring up a host of unspecified but intense traumatic memories for Elsa. They’ve got bigger problems: the secret begins to trickle out. As Dren approaches something resembling teenagerdom, Elsa and Clive move Dren to the company basement and continue to ignore their actual jobs, resulting in a company disaster that puts their careers on the line. The film’s recurring emphasis on Dren’s gender enforcement, which in 2009 might have flown under the radar, seems glaringly awkward and obvious today.
A slightly underbaked character played by a slightly overqualified Brody, Clive exists mainly as a weak voice of reason.ĭren grows extraordinarily quickly, and Elsa wastes no time in putting her in dresses and giving her dolls, the usual little-girl starter pack. Clive meanwhile seems to wonder if he’s been astral-planed into a late-night showing of Eraserhead, but seems powerless or unwilling to put a stop to Elsa’s increasingly unhinged parenting as all scientific protocols are forgotten. From the moment baby Dren-who in the early days appears like a cross between a teacup pig, a chicken, and a human child-begins ricocheting and screeching around the lab, everything in Elsa’s eyes screams That’s my baby. She being Dren, the half-human, half-animal creature onto which Elsa instantly projects a twisted parent-child relationship. Their reasoning for this comically irresponsible plan contains the usual platitudes about “saving humanity,” but all reasoning is out the window once she is “born.” (Nucleic Exchange Research and Development) and launches into rogue territory: attempting to bring a hybrid organism to life in a giant synthetic womb. Frustrated with their money-hungry and dully evil bosses, the duo blows off their duties at the company N.E.R.D. Clive (Adrian Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley), genetic engineers with dubious morals and of-their-time fashion taste, dream of creating the first human-nonhuman hybrid by splicing together a veritable charcuterie board of DNA. Splice (2009), directed by Vincenzo Natali, is an amniotic-fluid-covered romp into the not-so-hypothetical world of designer organisms.
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