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This movie calls attention on a matter that is each day more common in society

mainly among the new generations, and it has to do with how far should human

beings allow technology to “rule” their lives. It might seem attractive to interrelate with

a person who is always there, anywhere, anytime, taking care of your pendings, who

can do researches, and even pay your bills or go online shopping for you, with the

plus of not having to invest in that person as much as time, costs, space, meals,

struggles, and intimacy as occurs with a real person of flesh and blood. It helps

increase students’ critical thinking as to consider if eventually technology devices or

artificial intelligence will be able to substitute the company of humans in a very

intimate manner, and what kind of society would be the one where the actors, social

beings, are not socializing together. Will normal physical reproduction disappear?

Although this movie depicts a futuristic approach, its message could not be more

opportune to these days and worth for a deep reflection.

The film is beguilingly sincere and touching in how it approaches loneliness and the

compulsion to overcome it, and it asks the relevant question of whether technology

fosters distance from others, helps surmount it, or both. It also inquires into the

different sorts of satisfactions, and lack of same, offered by human beings and

machines in an age we’ve already entered.

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

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