Sight Extended review – unsettling tale is an eye-opener in our age of AI anxiety – The Guardian
This disturbingly real-looking synthetic intelligence sci-fi was made a few years in the past on what seems like a finances of small change tipped out of the film-makers’ coin jars. It’s getting a launch now presumably on account of AI nervousness creeping up the league desk of issues that preserve individuals awake at evening. Just like the Nosedive episode of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, the premise right here is that in an apparently-near future individuals put on contact lenses that feed them details about the world. (Truly, the movie is an prolonged model of a brief made by its administrators Daniel Lazo and Eran Might-Raz again in 2012.)
Andrew Riddell performs Patrick, who like everybody else wears dazzling blue contact lenses that fill the air round him with holograms. Patrick is an agoraphobic who hasn’t left his house for over a month; he spends his time enjoying pc video games, going hammer and tongs with 3D zombies. Saviour comes within the type of an app, Refresh, that guarantees to show Patrick’s life round. And it delivers, beginning with a spring clear of his house. The app turns uninteresting chores into pc video games; choosing laundry off the ground turns into a basketball recreation – slam dunk the shirt into the basket, and so get somewhat dopamine hit. Refresh chooses Patrick a brand new wardrobe of garments (ordered to reach by drone in half-hour). Issues start to get sinister when it feeds him strains to talk in social interactions, like making small discuss with a barber.
Newly geared up with smooth abilities that make him extra likable and comfy with himself, Patrick luggage a date along with his highschool crush Emily (Nova Gaver). Creepily, the app – like a cross between ChatGPT and Cyrano de Bergerac – woos Emily by proxy. A few of the performing is perhaps patchy in locations and the drama goes nowhere notably attention-grabbing. However like good sci-fi, the movie’s almost-now world feels unsettlingly shut, a cautionary story from the not-so-distant future.
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