Films · Tag
optimisation
2 films tagged with “optimisation”
film · 2006
Idiocracy
Mike Judge
Idiocracy is remembered as a film about stupid people, which is the least interesting thing in it and probably why the film is quoted more often than it is understood. The narration frames the premise as a selection stor…
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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…
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