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identity
3 films tagged with “identity”
film · 1998
Perfect Blue
Satoshi Kon
The mechanism that destroys Mima Kirigoe is not the stalker, and not the murders. It is the fan website. Early in the film, Mima discovers a site called 'Mima's Room' — a first-person diary written in her voice, by someo…
mediacontrolmodernity
film · 1997
Gattaca
Andrew Niccol
Gattaca is the clearest film ever made about what happens when a proxy metric becomes the thing itself. The genome was meant to predict outcomes; by the time the film opens it has stopped predicting anything, because it…
proxy-metricsmodelsclassification
film · 1982
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
The Voight-Kampff machine is a classifier, and everything that goes wrong in Blade Runner goes wrong in the way classifiers go wrong. It does not detect artificiality directly, because artificiality is not observable; it…
artificial-intelligenceidentityclassification