This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is a film to avoid because of severe screenplay issues. Completely unmotivated character choices and actions, completely unmotivated character transformations, lazy deus-ex-machina-like authority figures that suddenly "fix" the two protagonists at the last minute and save the day. But one is still left wondering in disbelief - why is any of this happening, what is going on, and what the hell is this story.
The other aspects of the film are okay. The acting is good, and there are…
Franz Kranz's directorial debut has been causing some ripples across international film festivals, and when Oslo Pix Filmfestival 2022 announced that they would screen it, too, getting tickets for it was a no-brainer.
It's a different kind of film, conceptually different, in fact. The film is limited to just one interior scene, a room with a table, and four people sitting around it, talking with each other for almost 2 hours. It's a film that isolates dialogue writing, directing and…
iHuman feels like a collection of news headlines and TED talks, connected by vacuous buzzwords and abstract statements, which will have already been heard by anyone who has followed the recent developments in AI.
It doesn't help that the film continues to repeat itself, and wastes your time with 3D visuals that are completely irrelevant.
On its surface, it describes, in layman's terms, three concepts:
1. Artificial general intelligence
2. Data mining & Surveillance tech
3. Robotics
However, besides providing a…
Maurice Lemaître basically invented shitposting in cinema in 1951.
