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S1m0ne, or another predictive movie about AI

S1M0NE movie poster shows a large manifestations of a computer-generated woman looking down at Al Pacino.

Niccol’s films, almost universally, are obsessed with the idea of artificial realities. This can be a mundane sort of affair … Or it can be something like S1m0ne, where an actress and her whole career and presence, are digital creations. It is notable that Niccol is a cautionary tale sort of director. In each of these, the artificial realities break or are broken, showing the cogs and the gears of what is behind them.