"Save the past, or change the future..." Bring on the future! This is the kind of ambitious sci-fi vision I love encountering. AI-pocalypse is a stunning, mind-bending new sci-fi short film from filmmaker Lin Sun. The film tells the story of a self-conscious Artificial Intelligence being who goes to the 4th dimension to fix human kind's future. Oh yeah, let's get into it. This is clearly inspired by Cloud Atlas and Sonmi-451's story, with similar storytelling (recalls her story to authorities while crying). But the final act of this short pushes it even further – literally into the 4th dimension. Which is awesome to see. Jiao Xu stars as Sonia, joined by Arthur Roberts and John Henry Richardson. The visuals in this are impressive for something made on a small scale. If this is only the first film Lin Sun has made, then I cannot wait to see what else he makes.
- 4/13/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Silver Berlin Bear for Josephine Siao’s performance in Berlin International Film Festival, “Summer Snow” is Ann Hui’s most celebrated film, and definitely one of her best works.
“Summer Snow” screened at Five Flavours
The script revolves around the Suns, a family consisting of Bing, who is an examiner in a driving school, May, who works in a company that imports toilet paper from China, and Allen, their 20-something son. Their lives are relatively regular, and are only tormented by Bing’s father, Lin Sun, a former flight lieutenant in the Air Force, a truly authoritarian man who treats everyone around him, and particularly the women, as his servants. The situation takes a huge turn for the worse, when Bing’s mother dies, and Lin Sun is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The family has to take care of the elderly man,...
“Summer Snow” screened at Five Flavours
The script revolves around the Suns, a family consisting of Bing, who is an examiner in a driving school, May, who works in a company that imports toilet paper from China, and Allen, their 20-something son. Their lives are relatively regular, and are only tormented by Bing’s father, Lin Sun, a former flight lieutenant in the Air Force, a truly authoritarian man who treats everyone around him, and particularly the women, as his servants. The situation takes a huge turn for the worse, when Bing’s mother dies, and Lin Sun is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The family has to take care of the elderly man,...
- 9/14/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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