replacement
6 films tagged with “replacement”
Blade Runner 2049
The question the first film asked was whether a manufactured being could be conscious. The question this film asks is whether a manufactured being can reproduce, and the difference between those two questions is the diff…
Her
Her is the most accurate film about consumer artificial intelligence ever made, and it achieves this without a single scene about capability. Nobody in it asks whether Samantha is conscious, tests her, or worries about a…
Moon
Moon is an employment story. It is set on the far side of the Moon, it involves cloning and corporate conspiracy and a robot named GERTY who communicates partly through emoticons, but the structure underneath all of that…
RoboCop
The boardroom scene tells you everything the film is about, and it happens before the title character exists. Omni Consumer Products is demonstrating ED-209, a fully autonomous enforcement unit, to its senior leadership.…
Logan's Run
The city works. That is the first thing the film establishes and the thing it never lets you forget. Nobody in the domed city of 2274 is hungry, cold, lonely, or bored. Pleasure is universally available and friction has…
Desk Set
In 1957, the year Sputnik went up, Hollywood released a romantic comedy about a reference librarian being replaced by a computer. Bunny Watson and her three colleagues sit in the research department of a television netwo…