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if what Chat GPT Able to kill people? mercy Imagine this horrific scenario and then wonder if it’s really that bad. What if your AI judge, jury and executioner looked and talked like The stunning Rebecca Fergusonexplain? Isn’t it a peaceful sight when your last breath leaves your body? Is it all because an algorithm scraping information from the digital world decides you’re guilty and no longer worth living?
Director Timur Bekmambetov’s latest is a mind-bending work that gleefully subverts the mood and aesthetic of Hollywood’s police state dystopia (minority report, RoboCop, blade runner etc.) while presenting this horror as a pleasant normalcy. It opens with a chipper voiceover so menacing that you automatically assume it’s ironic (it’s not): Los Angeles’s crime epidemic has been squarely blamed on civil unrest and homelessness, leading to the establishment of the Mercy Court.
Defendants are strapped into chairs in front of artificial intelligence judge Maddox (Ferguson), who is equipped with a touchscreen tablet that allows unfettered access to people’s data. The defendants are also presumed guilty and have 90 minutes to confirm their innocence through a Google search – otherwise they will be executed on the spot.
Chris Prattwhich can be combined with any other famous hollywood chrisPlay as Chris Raven, a police officer who arrests the first man dealt with by Court of Mercy. However, now he wakes up in a chair, accused of murdering his wife (Annabelle Wallis), and hungover with no memory of the day. So he starts ordering Maddox to pull up phone records, Instagram accounts and emails, which all fly across the screen at him and us (especially if you choose to watch the film in 3D). The aim is to immerse us as much as possible.
Bekmambetov was instrumental in popularizing “screen life” films, in which events are captured entirely within the digital realm via telephone or computer, and spawned early hits Unfriend (2015) and Searching (2018), as well as last year’s infamous Ice Cube-led world war. It’s a compelling gimmick, though it hasn’t really proven itself to be more than just a gimmick; mercy Because the camera cuts so frequently to Pratt’s pained expression, it’s barely passable.
Yet any effort to force us to identify with Chris is futile. Any hopeful idea leads to a dead end. This is a maddening watch. It was revealed that Chris had a bad temper. Maybe mercy Will we be asked to question the true meaning of justice by rooting for an unlikable but ultimately innocent protagonist? No, nothing will come of that. What about invasion of privacy in the pursuit of justice? Is it ethical? His daughter (Kelly Rogers) confronts him, saying he tapped her phone. He admitted it wasn’t right and continued to snoop. must, mercy Would it at least question whether Judge Maddox could be trusted with a person’s life?
It’s also true that, despite Ferguson’s deftly artificial performance, Marco Van Bell’s script either doesn’t address the fact that Maddox is slowly gaining consciousness or fundamentally fails to understand how artificial intelligence works. After some pointless twists and turns, mercy It ultimately concludes that its chosen dystopia—segregated, militarized red zones built around bad parts of the city where police brutality is rampant—actually could do with a few minor improvements. We are left with the observation that “Human or AI, we all make mistakes, but we learn”. That’s a pretty good conclusion to a movie about capital punishment.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov. Starring: Chris Pratt, Rebecca FergusonCarly Reese, Annabelle Wallis, Chris Sullivan, Kelly Rogers. 12A Certificate, 100 minutes.
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