Jennifer Lopez Pays Loving Tribute to Invasive Technology in Atlas
By Jesse Hassenger for Paste –
Suggesting that a movie was written by AI has already become a tired critical cliché, which therefore means describing Atlas, a new science-fiction movie starring Jennifer Lopez, requires additional care. Yes, the lazy critic could probably say that Atlas feels as if someone fed I, Robot (the 2004 feature, not the short story collection by Asimov) and Edge of Tomorrow into some kind of advanced-but-not-that-advanced screenwriting software and turned the dial to “good enough for streaming,” but the truth is, human screenwriters enthusiastically rip off other movies and rewrite them using stock phrases and clichés all the time. Where Atlas really gets ahead of the competition is its enthusiastic endorsement of AI, barely concealed within its low-level craft. It’s a movie where Jennifer Lopez discovers the life-changing and even heartwarming possibilities of giving in to technology you don’t like, and fusing your brain with a computer program. Maybe AI didn’t write it; maybe humans just want AI to weep with gratitude after absorbing it.
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