Womb

Womb is a 2010 film written and directed by Benedek Fliegauf and starring Eva Green and Matt Smith.

A love story is told (Rebecca and Tommy) in a world where human cloning of persons is possible and provided by private corporations. The film deals with problems about how cloning might affect private lives, and with the moral and ethical issues involved by it.
The film commences with a pregnant woman telling her unborn child that the father has departed for good, but together they will start a new life. Then a love story is told between two children, Rebecca and Tommy, who swear each other eternal love. However, the mother of Rebecca gets a job in Japan, so the two get separated. Years later Rebecca returns as a young woman to find Tommy again. In fact, Tommy remembers her still, the two begin a new relationship, the girl friend of Tommy leaves, if grudgingly, after recognizing that some old love has returned.
Tommy is a political activist fighting against the biotech corporations. These plan to open a new natural park in the countryside populated by artificial animals created by cloning. Tommy plans to spoil the inauguration ceremony by placing at strategic places rucksacks full of cockroaches. Rebecca, herself a geologist finding for corporations new sites of natural resources – a work she can do at home via the internet –, helps Tommy, more out of sympathy than political conviction.
Driving to the site of the new natural park through a lonely wilderness, Rebecca asks Tommy to stop, she must “pee”. Reluctantly, because of the delay, Tommy stops the car. While Rebecca looks for a place, Tommy himself leaves the car. Rebecca suddenly hears a dull sound, then she only can acknowledge the dead body of Tommy on the road, who has just been overrun and killed by a passing car.
Rebecca and the parents of Tommy are struck with grief. But Rebecca wants to take action and to use the “new possibilities”. She wants Tommy to be cloned and so brought back to life again. She herself wants to be impregnated with cell material of Tommy and give birth to him. The mother of Tommy objects. Though their family was always atheist, nevertheless, what fate has taken away, man should not try to bring back again. The father, however, gives Rebecca the cell material of Tommy, not without reminding her that responsibility is with her for what is going to happen. It is still time to revert her decision. Rebecca, however, continues and gives birth to a new Tommy, by a Caesarean section.
Tommy is now raised up as Rebecca’s son. The mother-son relationship seems to be normal. Rebecca presents to him a toy saurian, an artificial living animal created by the new biotechnology. Finally some problems arise. Tommy, together with some playmates, does not want to play with a girl from the neighbourhood. She is a “copy”, he explains to his shocked mother, her skin smells different, she is not like normal people. Soon after that, the neighbourhood mothers, amongst them a black woman, tell Rebecca to stop relations with the “copy”, the cloned girl. It might be dangerous for normal children. Rebecca, though horrified, gives in in order not to isolate her son. In vain, because rumours spread, and soon afterwards she has to celebrate Tommy’s birthday with him alone, because the mothers forbid their children to come to Tommy, because he is a clone.
Rebecca moves now even further away into the wilderness with her son to avoid the troublesome neighbours. Tommy begins to ask questions about himself, about his father and his father’s accident, why his father died. This is fused with an aggressiveness perhaps natural for a boy his age. Together with a mate, he newly has, he kills his living toy saurian by burying the animal alive in the sand. His mother finds out, however, and gives him back the dead saurian, which has now become an ordinary dead toy animal.
Some years later Tommy has grown as old as he was when he died in his first life. He is now the adult son of Rebecca, whose looks seem to have not much changed. They have a cordial relationship, but tensions grow again, when Tommy brings a girl friend home. Rebecca behaves jealously to the bewilderment of both Tommy and his friend. An old woman, his former mother, what Tommy does not know, visits him, seems to know him, stares at him. Again, Tommy is irritated and asks questions about his and his mother's identity. At the same time, he seems to develop new feelings towards his mother, which are more than a son’s love. Tommy is frightened, he does not know what happened. Rebecca tells him to feel fine, after all, he is alive.
His girl friend finally leaves him, when Tommy decides to stay with his mother in order to get finally answers from his mother for his questions. Rebecca gives an old laptop to him, the laptop of his former life. There he finds pictures of himself, of that old woman, who had visited him, his original mother, and of his father. But he still does not know the identity of Rebecca and the relationship of her to him or to his former identity. Rebecca will not answer, Tommy finally makes love to her. His mother seems to feel some physical pain. Next day, Tommy tells his mother/his love good bye and thanks her. The very last scene of the story was the first one of the film, when Rebecca was shown pregnant, the second time, this time with a child from Tommy, the clone.