Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013, where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system. People are addicted to their phone, their television sets, their video games. This movie is not about technology taking over our physical world but the emotional space of our hearts and minds. The combination of the isolation we feel, the dissatisfaction of our messy relationships and our everyday indulgences with objects, looking to find temporary joy. With technology enabling all of our desires. The one thing that it cannot fulfil is to give us love. This movie is about what happens if, one day, it comes to life and has thoughts, an "Operating System" with Artificial Intelligence. A movie made for our times, forewarning us to get our act together. I am very touch oriented, unlike the protagonist who seems audio oriented. That is why I personally believe long distance relationship is improbable to work. But say it was a humanoid, it is still not a complete human being. Can you find true love with it? Hard to believe? What if it leverages its perfectness with wit and charm, and even sex-talk and tears. Would you be in a relationship and would that even work? I think it would still be a make belief, a fantasy world. Even if makes you temporarily happy. *Spoilers ahead Reluctantly, I watched the film. However, I could relate to the protagonist who lives up in his head. In the film, even though his ex-wife makes fun of him, but like him, most people have slowly formed deep personal relationship with their or other people's OS. But when you have somebody who is all smart and intuitive, but only an intelligence without a body, it would soon lose its connection with people. How do you handle rejection when if it grows apart or outgrows you like a living, breathing person may. "The anime Chobits (created by Japanese manga collective Clamp) are both about average, antisocial dudes who fall in love with an artificial being. Eventually, both Chi become transcendent beings."
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The movie has its flaws with its character arc, feels forced and repetitive but overall its a good film, one in which you won't find your typical formulas. The subject of the satirical film is very specific and a taboo: the pleasure of hardcore pornography, its addiction, its isolating effects and the loss of intimacy in the act of making love in the real world. That's why our handsome protagonist acts like such a cartoon. He wants to lose his mind while making love but in hardcore action; while his "perfect 10" girlfriend is a tease who is indirectly controlling, demanding and uses sex as a weapon to get what she wants i.e. her perception of love which is like in blockbuster movies. How vain are both they both! The gazing lens and the moving images of the female body easily lends itself to objectification. This has feed and shaped generations who feel deeply unsatisfied with reality. They are almost a slave to the fantastical expectations they have from each other. Two examples of technology conditioning human interactions are shown; the protagonist's father who is glued to the large-screen TV and the protagonist's sister who is always texting on her mobile phone. Redemption is not going to be easy to come by for the narcissist, superficial generation. Like the protagonist, the players are being played. The idea of earnestly talking to another human being and feeing intimate is lost on the lost souls. An older, quirky, lonely women changes that. Extreme immersion in prono appears to make sex with the one you love a turn-off. Where once pornography was used as stimulation for flagging sex lives, or an occasional treat for adventuring lovers, now it’s become an online cult from which a return to normal life becomes ever more difficult. It’s like our great appetite for cookery programmes, which are also, for the most part, a spectator sport; we’re a nation of guzzlers, supine on our sofas, watching other people cook while devouring ready-made meals so as not to disturb our viewing time. To describe it as ironic would be to seriously underplay the dysfunctionality of such behaviour. |
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