In the near future, society is reeling from the impact of a devastating war, and ambitious software engineer Su Jie (Francesco Chen) believes that he has found a means of solving everything, an approach which will remove all possibility of it happening again. Believing that violence is a consequence of deception, he has created in ingestible computer system called Guidance which connects with the brain and provides moral advice, as well as warning it whenever somebody lies. He’s almost ready to roll it out to the world at large. He just needs to run a few more tests.
Probably conceived as pure science fiction, this Chinese drama has, by dint of circumstance, come to feel a little more like social satire. Those viewing it from that perspective will be unsurprised to learn that the software has been poorly thought through, designed with an absolutist approach which, for example, makes it impossible.
Probably conceived as pure science fiction, this Chinese drama has, by dint of circumstance, come to feel a little more like social satire. Those viewing it from that perspective will be unsurprised to learn that the software has been poorly thought through, designed with an absolutist approach which, for example, makes it impossible.
- 6/14/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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