#if you are going to flippantly anthropomorphize your robots to the point of imbuing them with historically loaded cultural aesthetics.

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gareth edwards 🤝 david cage

total inability to grasp the function of AI as a metaphor in sci fi storytelling as well as an overall lack of sensitivity towards geopolitical allegory within their childlike both-sides wankery that is too poorly removed from real-life aesthetics to be taken at face value

#you could even replace the tasteless civil rights allusions with gross orientalism and essentially turn one into the other. fuck me #I am going to be such a hater on the creator I am so sorry if folks here enjoyed it. no offense and no hard feelings #but if you ever wondered what it would be like if detroid become racist was a movie with a different aesthetic package but the exact same #optics and thematic follow-through. boy is this a perfect flick for you #if you are going to flippantly anthropomorphize your robots to the point of imbuing them with historically loaded cultural aesthetics. #then you're not in need of telling a heightened genre story within scifi trappings. you can just write a fantasy flick or even just #something real or historically rooted. otherwise you lean into the DIFFERENCES and make THAT the root of acceptance #otherwise you're just wanking yourself off for dressing robots in tibetan robes and making it sad when they blow up from american nukes #good lord have some tact or nuance in your god damn filmmaking. I know it's dire in hollywood right now but I KNOW y'all can do better #text #negativity #genuinely a david cage moment but in movies. ladies and gentlemen. we found him