For years, writers and directors have been trying on the role of visionaries, pondering the implications of science and the near future. Often their quest has resulted in large-scale blockbusters, which will surprise you even more than the most thrilling matches to bet sports live at 20Bet. But we have collected 3 slow-motion movies of the last decade, striking both in their depth and visual range.
After Yang
Married couple Jake and Kira have adopted a Chinese baby girl, Mika. To let the little girl know her roots, the parents purchased an android named Yang. This type of robot is designed to teach the language, history, and culture of China. Mika sees the android as an older brother, not a soulless machine. He is also warmly treated by his parents. A sudden malfunction in Yang’s system becomes a tragedy akin to the death of a loved one. Jake embarks on a wander through repair shops and museums in an attempt to save Young. The more he learns about the robot, the more “human” Yang becomes.
A slow and beautiful work by director and screenwriter Kogonada. Discarding the idea of sprawling sci-fi movies about the dangers of developing artificial intelligence, he makes the robot an important part of the family. Through Yang, the filmmaker reflects on his own cultural identity as an American of South Korean descent. Kogonada neatly peeks into one family’s life, exploring through it the feelings and nostalgic experiences of all humanity. Through minimalism in space and dialogue, he creates a complex picture of loss and love.
Under the Skin
A charming brunette takes a dead girl’s clothes and sets out on a hunt for males. Looping around Scottish Glasgow in her massive van, she strikes up polite conversations with random passersby. The stranger’s defiant image serves as a signal to them to act, and the men don’t hesitate to accept the invitation to get into the girl’s car. But as they undress in the abandoned house, they gradually realize that their hope for sex is slowly sinking into the emptiness of the cosmic abyss.
The director of music videos for Radiohead and Massive Attack, Jonathan Glaser, has previously made frequent references to sci-fi masterpieces and, taking on feature movies, has continued his genre experiments. Thus, the surreal movie mixes fiction and documentary: Scarlett Johansson seduces real men on the streets of Scotland. The fact that passers-by were in the movie, they were informed only at the end of the scene. The game part is more like an expensive music video, which ten years after the film’s release can be interpreted in different ways.
Ex Machina
A billionaire boss invites a computer programmer named Caleb to his house cut off from civilization. Within a week, the young man must conduct tests on the first artificial intelligence in a female shell. The task of the beautiful Ava is to pass the Turing test, that is, to prove to Caleb the ability to think as well as a living person. Over time, the programmer himself becomes the object of the experiment, imbued with romantic feelings for the humanoid robot. However, the sexual attraction for Ava is only one of the programs concealing her personal goals.
It’s impossible to imagine modern sci-fi without Alex Garland, and so it would be unfair to limit ourselves to one of his films. Ex Machina’s debut showed that Garland has a very different feel for his scripts than his fellow Danny Boyle. Ex Machina is filmed in a different meditative way from Boyle’s, observing from the sidelines. The billionaire, played by Oscar Isaac, follows Ava’s experiment with surveillance cameras, while the viewer looks at both the human-robot interaction and the inventor. The movie deservedly won an Oscar for best visual effects and also made Swedish actress Alicia Vikander famous.
