About a decade ahead of its time. Beautiful production design, amazing score, and a great reminder that all the technology in the world won’t save us from loneliness or replace our collective human need for each other!! Still can’t see something about AI/GenAI without immediately thinking of this.
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You don’t have to be an doomsdayer to tell a really tragic story about artificial intelligence. This movie really captured what AI ended up being like—I think because it’s less about technology and more about people. Haven’t seen it in many years but I bet it hits harder than ever.
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A beautiful sci-fi film by writer/director/editor Kogonada. It explores what it means to be alive, navigating themes of love, impermanence, and human supremacy.
I‘ll be honest: I’m a sucker for robots. I think it’s because they are a lens through which we can see ourselves. Our humanity and our inhumanity. Beep boop.
Nov 22, 2024
There's a movie I recommend called Alphaville, by Jean-Luc Godard. They rereleased it last year. I went to see it kind of every day it was in the theater, every day that I could go, because it was such a rare opportunity to actually get to see it on a screen. I highly recommend it, particularly considering the state of the world as it is these days and everything that's going on with Ai– Alphaville is such a fascinating imagining of AI from a historical perspective. That always blows my mind, all the things that are happening nowadays have been predicted in literature and film from a while ago. To see these things manifesting in our current reality– it's really trippy that these artists and writers anticipated all this. I don't know how they did that, but if you watch Alphaville, I think it'll kind of send a chill down your spine to see. Of course, he didn't have the technology available at the time he made the film so he's doing it old-fashioned style but still capturing the sense of what it is that we're going through.Â
Feb 12, 2025
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This book is a chronicle of the author’s life in the year after her husband unexpectedly passes away while their daughter is in a coma. I also happened to read this at a time in my life when I had recently:
a.) gotten married
b.) learned a friend was dying
Seems like a bummer from the summary above, and the content is definitely heavy, but this book really spoke to me at a time in my life when I was feeling a little lost amidst some big life changes. I recommend it to a lot of my friends after they get married - there’s some really great reflections on how amazing it is to share your life with someone, and the ways that you’ll miss them when they’re gone.Â
I’d always enjoyed reading, but this was the first time that I experienced one of those magical moments when a piece of literature, a movie, etc. can line up perfectly with your life and help you work through some of the things that are happening to and around you.Â
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Never been big into sandwiches but have felt drawn towards them lately. Got this one at a local bakery yesterday and it elevated my entire day
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