FROM LAB TO LAMENT: A BIO- ETHICAL COLLAPSE IN ENGINEERED SPLICE (2019)

Abstract

The article “From Lab to Lament: A Bio-Ethical Collapse in Engineered Splice” examines the eerie course of scientific ambition as it is depicted in Vincenzo Natali's 2009 film Splice, in which genetic engineering breaks down ethical norms outside the confines of the lab. This research article examines the philosophical and symbolic breakdown that results from the collision of moral obligation, scientific advancement, and human desire. The study shows how the manufactured creature born of splicing and hubris becomes both a scientific marvel and a regrettable mirror of ethical failure through a critical examination of the film's narrative arc, character interactions, and visual symbols. The study places Splice in a larger conversation about posthuman creation, the commodification of life, and the terrible results of unbridled research by drawing on bioethical theory, mythic themes, and cinematic analysis. In the end, it makes the case that the movie performs a contemporary Promethean lament, in which the lab turns into a theatre of transgression and the lament serves as a memorial for lost moral ground.