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Film that provoked outrage is ‘strangely moral’ – Sydney Morning Herald
This is the latest episode in cinema’s long love affair with the concept of artificial intelligence and the android in human form.
This was enough for the Melbourne Film Festival to drop the film from their online program earlier this year on the advice of two forensic psychologists who had not seen it in full. Yet its a strangely moral tale something more than a comment on the dehumanising effects of technology. Its an examination of the ethics of manipulating the emotional intelligence of another creature for purposes of your own.
Elli may be a machine but the growing sense of disorientation that underpins her story has echoes…
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