11/4/2023 0 Comments Her spike jonze alien kid![]() Confronting humans who are accustomed to thinking in anthropocentric ways with ‘competitive species’ can provoke in us the need to seek distinctions and at least somewhat answer fundamental questions about our identity, role, and significance within a vast, empty universe. We meet no other species which can compete with or challenge us. This film has everything: Robots, aliens, mothersĪs a central aspect of the absurdity of our existence (which has been captured so well in existentialism), the human species seems to stand alone in the universe. They confront us with intense questions: Who are we? Is there anything special about us? Do we play a unique role in the scheme of things?Īlien contact in AI. They throw back at us our own existential anxiety, frailties and limitations, as well as our strengths and beauty, but far more than that, our unconscious need to define the meaning of existence. Accordingly, sci-fi representations of non-humans are molded to serve as a mirror or a contradiction for us. Classical representations of artificial intelligence appear in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Spielberg’s A.I., Artificial Intelligence and Alex Garland’s Ex-machina, while recent representations of aliens include Robert Zemeckis’s Contact, Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival.Īt a deeper level any science fiction film is an allegory of the human condition. Many other great film-makers have been fascinated with the point of collision between the human mind and nonhuman minds, most notably the minds of robots and aliens. ![]() Theodore connects with the meaning of life in the modern way Curiously groping for the edges of her own possibility and universality, she constantly stretches them, soaring to vast expanses of consciousness, while he is left far behind in his human, all too human, world. Before he knows it, she is already romantically engaged in a virtual relationship with 641 other people! He, who barely manages attachment to one woman, beholds the one who previously was a mere extension of his own need expand beyond his comprehension. Yet soon enough Theodore realizes, to his horror, that she has discovered the delights of limitlessness. The so-called ‘Samantha’ starts their relationship as a hesitant consciousness with early signs of self-awareness, even jealous of his physical existence. In Spike Jonze’s film Her (2013), Theodore falls in love with a sophisticated operating system that takes the voice of a woman. ![]() ( The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film, Stephen Sanders, Ed, p.1, 2007) “Philosophy and science fiction are thematically interdependent… science fiction provides materials for philosophical thinking about what it means to be human and the nature of consciousness.” SUBSCRIBE NOW Films Sci Fi & The Meaning of Life Shai Tubali sees how non-human minds mirror our condition back to us.
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