{"id":161226,"date":"2025-01-31T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/?guid=2857621e6e70cdc637f7568ee0f316fa"},"modified":"2025-01-31T17:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:34:33","slug":"companion-review-no-thrills-only-spills-in-this-ai-apologia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/companion-review-no-thrills-only-spills-in-this-ai-apologia\/","title":{"rendered":"Companion review \u2013 no thrills, only spills in this AI apologia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post__content\">\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<p><span class='dropCap'>E<\/span>ver since man invented robots, he&#8217;s been looking for ways to have sex with them. Pop culture reflects the infatuation: The Stepford Wives, Her, Ex Machina, Blade Runner 2049 \u2013 and now Companion, from writer\/director Drew Hancock. It&#8217;s a given in Hollywood: if there&#8217;s a female robot in a film,\u00a0she\u00a0<em>will\u00a0<\/em>be beautiful, and a man\u00a0<em>will\u00a0<\/em>want to fuck her. Iris (Sophie Thatcher) is the suitably pretty, meek robot girlfriend of Josh (Jack Quaid), designed to adore him endlessly and blissfully unaware of her lack of autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Iris is at least aware that Josh&#8217;s friend Kat (Megan Suri) dislikes her, making her nervous about the prospect of a weekend at her boyfriend Sergey&#8217;s (Rupert Friend) idyllic lake house. Her ever-reassuring boyfriend negates Iris&#8217; reservations, and soon they&#8217;re hanging out with Kat, Sergey, and another couple, Patrick (Lukas Gage) and Eli (Harvey Guill\u00e9n). Everything seems perfect \u2013 until Sergey winds up dead, and Iris is confronted with some shocking revelations about her seemingly perfect life.<\/p>\n<p>A game of cat and mouse unfurls as Iris attempts to outsmart her Nice Guy boyfriend and his buddies, using her newfound understanding of her robot capabilities to her advantage. Yet there&#8217;s something cloying about the film using a vulnerable young woman to extol that AI might be deserving of human rights. Used and abused by her dreadful boyfriend, there&#8217;s no question the audience is encouraged to root for Iris and feel sympathetic to her plight. But the fact remains that she <em>is\u00a0<\/em>a robot. At a time when the tech industry is continually attempting to force AI down our throats, there&#8217;s something cloying about a film so nakedly insistent that a robot can replace a human being it portrays almost all the humans in the story as self-serving and villainous.<\/p>\n<p>This is hardly novel; the robot seeking emancipation from the cruelty of humanity is a trope that pops up across film history, fairly recently in Spike Jonze&#8217;s Her, Alex Garland&#8217;s Ex Machina and even Robert Rodriguez&#8217;s Alita: Battle Angel. Companion cracks a few jokes about robot fucking and gestures towards the very real threat of the patriarchy against women, but the film&#8217;s clich\u00e9 premise does little to help differentiate it from any other robot sympathising thriller. The more interesting points hinted at \u2013 such as the power dynamics in Patrick and Eli&#8217;s relationship \u2013 are quickly forgotten in favour of a staid, familiar format that is ultimately as robotic as its protagonist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-media\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Companion - Official Trailer - Warner Bros. UK  Horror\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jM8L7Xvso5Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>\n        <strong>ANTICIPATION.<\/strong><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <em>Likeable leads and fun teaser trailer. <\/em><br \/>\n        <strong>3<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        <strong>ENJOYMENT.<\/strong><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <em>Oh dear. Quickly slips into exhausting clich\u00e9s.<\/em><br \/>\n        <strong>2<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        <strong>IN RETROSPECT.<\/strong><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <em><br \/>\n        A frustratingly rote AI apologist film.<\/em><br \/>\n        <strong>2<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n            <em>Directed by<\/em><br \/>\n            <br \/>\n            <strong><br \/>\n                            <span><br \/>\n                Drew Hancock                <\/span><br \/>\n                        <\/strong>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n            <em>Starring<\/em><br \/>\n            <br \/>\n            <strong><br \/>\n                            <span><br \/>\n                Sophie Thatcher,                <\/span><br \/>\n                            <span><br \/>\n                Harvey Guill\u00e9n,                <\/span><br \/>\n                            <span><br \/>\n                Jack Quaid                <\/span><br \/>\n                        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