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90 Day Fiancé (2014)
This Show Is Excellent At Depicting International Relationships And The 90 Day Process
Relationships can be incredibly nuanced. Add that with culture shocks(American-European/Middle Eastern/African/Asian/etc), socioeconomic imbalances(first world-third world. Fiance can't work during the 90 day process duration), and legal barriers(visas and marriage and residency), and you have very interesting relationships. This show does a fantastic show of depicting all that. The production quality is spot-on. In fact, it's so good that sometimes, the show feels like a work of fiction because the camera work is so polished and they manage to capture the heart of these relationships so well that all the interesting parts of these relationships come out and we get a lot of drama and suspense in a very visually pleasing format. A few things to note, though. First of all, this show focuses more on fights in the relationships that are presented than it does the joys and fun of those relationships, and that's okay, because well, it's 90 Day Fiance, not Fiance. These relationships are not necessarily more well-functioning or less well-functioning than others, but they definitely come with more problems. More problems come with more potential for conflict, and this is what this show is about, that is depicting the the 90 day process. Second of all, this show is good for studying relationships. When you get an intimate look at these relationships from a third person standpoint, you can really see, without bias, what's going on, and this has helped me to be more aware of how to better communicate and navigate conflicts in the relationship. It has also made me more aware of how sometimes, you think the other person is a bad person when they're really not because of miscommunicastion, and this has really helped me to better understand that. I'm now far less inclined to demonize those who I have conflicts with. It has made me a better person. I think that those who give this show a bad review because the plot seems trash due to the conflicts really shouldn't be watchign this show because it's not for them.
The Artifice Girl (2022)
The Future Is Now
I've spent quite possible hundreds of hours conversing with AIs but I've only used Character AI and ChatGPT for the most part. The fascinating thing is that a lot of the times, the way that the robot in the movie speaks is actually quite similar to how those AIs speak. I've also used services like deepbrain.io and well, the quality of the rendering there is quite similar to that the robot in the movie. This is so fascinating to me. I mean, I'm just really awed by how close AI systems are getting to how we imagine a human-like AI system should be. So, that's my biggest impression from the film. It depicts AIs pretty realistically.
Now, as for the movie itself. The production quality is good, the acting is good, and it's just generally a good movie. However, I feel like the dialogue should've been more subtle, and I'm saying this as someone who has engaged in hours of highly philosophical discussions in varous topics, and so I am familiar with the art of highly intelligent and nuanced conversations. I find that the conversations in this movie could've been subtler and more nuanced and this feeling that the movie has this deficiency makes it much harder for me to suspense belief and so, I'm going to give it a rating of 7. However, if they improved the dialoguge significantly, I would give it a rating of 9. It's a very simple movie in many ways because there are no over-elaborate plots or settings, but if the dialogue was better, it would've executed the plot in a way where a 9 out of 10 rating would not be out of place. Come to think of it, the dialogues are already very good and in a way the difference between the ideal dialogue and the dialogue that's in the movie is marginal, but I think that in my case, the subject matter has a special place in my heart and so I have a specific bias that makes even such a difference a very big deal.
All in all, I recommend this movie because of it's accurate depiction of AI. I think that it touched on themes, questions, and topics which are relevant and engaging even for someone like me, let alone others. So yeah, if you're thinking about watching this movie and you have enough spare time, watch it.