Stranger fate than The Pod Generation, a sci-fi film in which society allows couples to carry their future child in an egg-shaped capsule with the help of artificial intelligence and algorithms.
Its first public screening will take place in January 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival, when ChatGPT will be launched. It then went on stage at Deauville in September, and its director, Sophie Bart, expressed support for the screenwriters (of whom she was one) and then went on strike, along with the cast. Especially against artificial intelligence.
The cast is back in action as his third feature hits our theaters this Wednesday, October 25th. Is it a coincidence or did the director and screenwriter feel the spirit of the times while writing this film?
While in Paris a few days before the release of The Pod Generation, Sophie Bart spoke at length about the subject. And so the news has repeatedly caught up with his film, to the point where we can less and less categorize it as “Science Fiction”.
It is no longer even a healthy relationship with truth, it is not a search in itself
The artificial womb is becoming a reality. Artificial intelligence is already here, and its rebellions are increasingly felt, not only in the world of cinema, where actors are still fighting it in the streets.
Thirteen years after Souls , his first feature about the spilling of the soul, the French filmmaker, whose adaptation of Madame Bovary with Mia Wasikowska and Ezra Miller, proves that dehumanization is also central. the subject of his work.
and talks about the dangers that await cinema and culture in general under the conditions of the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence. “We will go through a phase of deep decline in cinematic content”He tells us, for example, about the phenomenon of excessive franchising.
So many topics that he returns to our microphone and explains that this story, directed by Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor, could not have happened anywhere but the United States, because it is a critique and satire of American society. Which also leads to capitalism and male-female relations across the Atlantic.
Comments collected by Maximilien Pierret in Paris on October 19, 2023 – Editing by Chanel Morvan
Source: Allocine
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