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Today I will tell you about an action, mystery, sci-fi film from 2015, titled SELFLESS.
Damian Hale, a successful businessman and billionaire, is looking through large glass windows in his skyscraper apartment in NYC. Behind him, a nurse is getting ready to leave and is picking up her tools. The billionaire has terminal cancer and barely 6 months left to live. Later, during lunch with his best friend Martin, they discuss his illness and how he still hasn’t told his daughter Claire about it. Damian doesn’t have a good relationship with Claire because he was a workaholic while she was growing up and didn’t spend enough time with her. Martin thinks that if Claire knows about the illness, she will forgive him and they will quickly make amends. Before Damian and Martin ways, the billionaire asks his friend whether he heard of “shedding "and Martin says no. While in his limousine Damian tries to call Claire but she doesn’t answer. Then he pulls a business card of a company named Phoenix Biogenetic and remembers the conversation he had with the company owner – Dr. Albright. The doctor’s primary mission in life is to offer humanity’s greatest minds a way to extend their life and fulfill their full potential. He has created a device that can transport consciousness from one body to another – a process known as shedding. The company provides new bodies genetically engineered to perfection to everyone willing to pay big money for them. Damian remembers how he asked the doctor why their service was still illegal. Albright said that he asked the wrong questions. The right question would be: “Do you feel immortal?” After going through these memories and wondering whether to take Albright’s offer, Damian goes to see Claire who is running a non-profit organization. Wanting to make things right before dying, he gives his daughter money but doesn't tell her about the illness. She refuses to take the money because she thinks he’s manipulating her, expecting his checkbook to solve every problem. Later Damian is sitting in his office, disappointed with how things turned out with Claire. Desperate to have another chance at life, he continues to research shedding and Phoenix Biogenic. He discovers that the procedure was invented by Dr. Jensen and watches a video of him explaining the philosophy behind it. Jensen wanted to free the mind from the body and allow people to live even after the body dies. But as Damian is researching shedding, he starts coughing blood and faints. The illness is starting to consume him so when he wakes up with breathing tubes attached to his nose, he decides to call Albright and schedule the procedure. Albright explains how after the switch, he can’t contact anybody and that his old life won’t exist. He also instructs him to come to New Orleans and publicly fake his death. The next day, Damian’s on a plane and calls Martin, asking if they can have lunch in New Orleans. Before meeting him, he goes to the New Orleans graveyard and buries a mysterious box near one grave. At lunch with Martin, Damian fakes a seizure and falls on the floor. Martin gets scared and calls 911. But instead of going to the hospital, the ambulance vehicle takes the billionaire to Phoenix Biogenic. They quickly start the procedure so they inject Damian with a needle and put him in the machine fully conscious. The strong lights and loud sounds make him even more uncomfortable, but his perception is quickly transferred into the new young body. When Damian turns his head, he sees his old body unconscious and dead.
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