After Yang starts out with an exquisite setup as far as plot and world-building but the film loses wind in the second act, and the attempt to reawaken the audience with the third-act revelation feels abrupt and thinly developed.
Still, there are enough precious and beautiful moments, ideas, and interactions to make this one worth watching.
A complex exploration of what we leave behind after we die, After Yang proposes a future where people seem to have trouble conceiving given that some are clones and there's a trade in "cultural" androids (like Yang) who help adopted kids from other countries learn their original heritage. After the refurbished Yang suffers a fatal error, his "dad" Colin Farrell gets to examine his fragmented memories and discovers things he didn't think possible. What is Yang's legacy, what has he left behind, and to whom? There's a reversal here, since we're seeing HIS memories, but as a way to comment our OUR memories of HIM (or our lost loved one). We leave, but we leave things behind, we change others, we continue to exist, as fragments, in the effects we have had. Bathed in golden light, After Yang is quiet and meditative, and yes, it's about A.I. and whether it can ever constitute a "person", but that's almost background noise because it's really about us, how we remember and how we are remembered.
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devilsadvocado
After Yang starts out with an exquisite setup as far as plot and world-building but the film loses wind in the second act, and the attempt to reawaken the audience with the third-act revelation feels abrupt and thinly developed.Still, there are enough precious and beautiful moments, ideas, and interactions to make this one worth watching.
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A complex exploration of what we leave behind after we die, After Yang proposes a future where people seem to have trouble conceiving given that some are clones and there's a trade in "cultural" androids (like Yang) who help adopted kids from other countries learn their original heritage. After the refurbished Yang suffers a fatal error, his "dad" Colin Farrell gets to examine his fragmented memories and discovers things he didn't think possible. What is Yang's legacy, what has he left behind, and to whom? There's a reversal here, since we're seeing HIS memories, but as a way to comment our OUR memories of HIM (or our lost loved one). We leave, but we leave things behind, we change others, we continue to exist, as fragments, in the effects we have had. Bathed in golden light, After Yang is quiet and meditative, and yes, it's about A.I. and whether it can ever constitute a "person", but that's almost background noise because it's really about us, how we remember and how we are remembered.nymets138
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