The Big Picture Much like David Byrne eventually asking “my god, what have I done?” during a live musical performance, it’s inevitable that the new blockbuster from writer/director Gareth Edwards, The Creator, is going to inspire some rampant discourse online. Specifically, this film is all about a war between humans and robots, with the latter group referred to as “artificial intelligence.
That element is key to making The Creator’s use of the term artificial intelligence digestible: None of the film’s robots evoke the dystopian vision of A.I. from the warped minds of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or movie-studio executives. Today, A.I. is associated with computer programs that don’t have a face, soul, or distinct emotions. Instead, they’re guided by algorithms and are, in the eyes of too many rich people, meant to function as less messy replacements for human beings.
The Creator continues this tradition of allegorical storytelling employing heightened sci-fi characters with various sequences involving robotic characters that highlight the horrors of U.S. military actions on foreign nations. Scenes where U.S. Army vehicles trample down villages in a West Asian village are not meant to inspire audiences to mourn Zillow’s ill-fated forays into A.I. technology. Instead, these images echo real horrors perpetrated by the U.S.
Instead, a later scene between human protagonist Joshua and robotic fighter Huran makes it clear what the long-term plan of the robots in The Creator is. As Huran explains, the robots in this world don’t want to fight humans at all. “When this war is over,” Huran tells Joshua, “do you know what we will do to America?” After a pause, Huran simply says “nothing.” Even after all the horrors these robots have experienced, they don’t harbor a taste for revenge.
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