Review Ryan Lambie 21 Mar 2014 - 06:03
Scientists create artificial life in the brooding sci-fi thriller, The Machine. It’s a cult gem in the making, Ryan writes...
The notion of fashioning a being and giving it life predates science fiction, yet it remains a magnetic subject that withstands constant reworking and retelling. Director and writer Caradog W James’s low-budget film The Machine has strong echoes of Blade Runner and Metropolis, but it also reaches further back to things like Frankenstein and the Jewish folklore tale of the Golem.
Toby Stephens stars as brooding computer scientist Dr Vincent McCarthy (his name being a nod, perhaps, to real-world pioneer John McCarthy), who works in a shadowy research bunker for the Ministry of Defence. The west is locked in a second Cold War with China, and both sides are racing to build ever more intelligent machines. “The most technologically advanced society always wins,...
Scientists create artificial life in the brooding sci-fi thriller, The Machine. It’s a cult gem in the making, Ryan writes...
The notion of fashioning a being and giving it life predates science fiction, yet it remains a magnetic subject that withstands constant reworking and retelling. Director and writer Caradog W James’s low-budget film The Machine has strong echoes of Blade Runner and Metropolis, but it also reaches further back to things like Frankenstein and the Jewish folklore tale of the Golem.
Toby Stephens stars as brooding computer scientist Dr Vincent McCarthy (his name being a nod, perhaps, to real-world pioneer John McCarthy), who works in a shadowy research bunker for the Ministry of Defence. The west is locked in a second Cold War with China, and both sides are racing to build ever more intelligent machines. “The most technologically advanced society always wins,...
- 3/20/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
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