#filmyapping

my rate: 11/10

i can tell this show has a lot to unpack, but i will just say what can come to my mind :D

first, Zosia (she/they)

-she's very interesting, embodies of AI, very warming and welcoming, very honest and secretive/manipulative, very intelligent and dumb

-i can learn in a clear way how dangerous it is of AI to lonely people, even when she says something like she loves you the same way she loves a random stranger, to the most monogamy person, that person would still abandon the world for her, cause that's what utterly lonesome can do to us humans

-it's crazy how she can act half genuinely care toward our protagonist, half just trying to manipulate the shit out of them, like, i can FEEL it in my instinct, through the damn screen, that she's somewhat do care, and somewhat try to shit, making me feel so uneasy about her "canon romantic" relationship to our protagonist, which is the most right feelings you should have toward a romantic relationship between a human and AI, so props to writers and the actor who can develop this feeling in me

-a 10/10 AI character, probably one of the most AI characters I've seen

(zosia/pirate lady from pluribus)

i believe if you don't have uneasy feelings toward such relationships, then the creators don't actually creates AI characters, and that AI characters are not actually AI, those are simply characters to serve the story, or humans in other forms and characteristics

i wont say it's a bad way to create AI or robotic characters, or there's should be one way to create them, some creators have some other purposes than demonstrating AI

i'm trying to say that for most films featuring AI or robotic protagonists, very few of them can separate humans from non-human characters

"what? so non-humans creatures shouldnt know how to love? why should we have to be realistic all the time?"

i get it, having unrealistic dreams is such a human trait, we yearn for unrealistic realities a lot, that's how we could develop so far to this

what i'm trying to say is that, while trying to creating non-human characters, we tend to not create them "just as they are", all those attempts like "robotic voices, robotic understandings" mostly are just pre-mature humans, we dont center the non-human characters, we are just using them as colorful media to teach us humans a lesson

"why tf we have to center a non-human character? as creators, of course we would like to connect to other human beings!"

im not entirely want to say that, even if writing those lines, all i was trying to do is tell creators to level up their skills to serve us humans better anyway

=> conclusion of my yap: the difference between Pluribus and most of other AI/robotic films is that Pluribus stay true to an AI character to serve a human story, while other films are just simple symbolic of "look, they can love like us, they can sacrifice for us, they're not threatening" to serve a human story

not really a judgment, but an observation to this genre of robotic films

(wall-e, the wild robot, the iron giant) (sing a bit of harmony, the great flood, vivy)

second, Carol (the protagonist)

-she's so entertaining, full of selfish yet love the human race just as they are, even tho she hates them, tries to control them as she wishes, and mean as shit to them, she needs them so bad, she needs them real bad that even if she got treated like a queen, can do whatever tf she wants, can eat whatever tf she likes, she still clings to an AI like a drowning toddler cause she yearns so bad for a human warmth

-her emotion development is so perfect and beautifully executed, it's my favorite thing of the show

-abandoned by her kinds after trying so hard, she desperately clung to an AI, the last piece of "love" that she could find, no matter how twisted and messed up that love she sensed it, facing the real heartless truth, she sucked it up to save her kinds, not cause she cares about her kinds, not cause it's the right thing to do, but cause she lost entirely, cause that the only thing left to do, she tired and said "ah fuck it, whatever then"

i love this, it's not a victimized story where "they do this cause society treat them like trash", it's not a heroic story where "they do this cause it's the right thing to do", the character treats society like trash first, the character wants to fix things based on their selfish wish and scare of lonesome, yet her development and her journey, it feels human, like yeah of course she do this, of course she do that, it's sad, it's understanding, she's so full of shit, she's so full of human

(but meticulously not too full of shit to the point of not worthy of sympathizing, so it's great :D)

(carol from pluribus)

i love her shaking scenes

the rest of the casts, they're cool, i can tell they are complex characters, but i have seen their archetypes before a lot, so i have nothing new to say

my fav side cast is Laxmi tho, she has the same twisted desperation level of our protagonists, and i love it, and i love the unnamed non-english speaking casts who hates Carol cause she excluded them from the conversation lol she wants human to have freewill, and that the freewill lol