The Final Cut

First-time writer-director Omar Naim's contemplative science-fiction parable unfolds in a vague, not-too-distant future in which Alan Hakman (Robin Williams) and his colleagues practice a brave new profession made possible by the Zoe Chip. Imagine, if you will, a teeny-tiny organic hard drive nestled in your brain, storing every memory and preserving them all for postmortem retrieval. Your whole life, from first breath to last gasp, is the ultimate reality-television show, hundreds of thousands of hours of raw footage waiting to be shaped and polished into an easily digestible narrative. Which is where the prim, buttoned-down Hakman and his fellow editors come in: Th...