One way to combat the apocalypse of artificial intelligence is to harness human intelligence.
Gore Verbinski’s Do your best, have fun, and don’t die This is proof that AI cannot compete with the imagination of living, breathing, thinking humans. At least not yet.
This sci-fi comedy is based on an ingenious, layered script by Matthew Robinson, and incorporates AI, virtual reality, video games, human cloning, and even the internet’s love of cat videos. Weird, visually striking, energetically performed, and thought-provoking, this movie is the movie of the year Everything at once, wherever you are.
Do your best, have fun, and don’t die You can rent it from Prime Video. The story begins at a restaurant. There, an unnamed man known simply as The Man (Sam Rockwell) arrives from the future and announces the collapse of civilization and its proposed solution.
The man has done the same thing many times before. He has been caught in a time loop. However, it has been unable to recruit rebels for its mission of stopping the invention of AI. It doesn’t help that he looks like he came straight out of the trash heap, or that he taunts diners as if they’re complicit in the erasure.
Then Susan (Juno Temple) raises her hand. Other volunteers also participate, including Susan’s Uber driver (Asim Chaudhary), Ingrid (Haley Lu Richardson), and a teacher couple, Janet (Zazie Beetz) and Mark (Michael Pena).
They follow The Man on a chaotic adventure involving a mouse, a giant centaur made up of kittens, a masked man, and a talking dog. Flashbacks of the main volunteers’ backstories explain how each volunteer has been affected by the rampant technology.
Susan, who lost her son in a school shooting, agrees to clone him. Is it okay to use a version with embedded commercials?
Mark is troubled by having to teach a classroom of students addicted to cell phones, who he wonders if they are like Leo Tolstoy. anna karenina is a YA fiction. Ingrid has a rare disease. I’m allergic to cell phones and Wi-Fi.
The comic timing is in step with Gore Verbinski’s skill in deploying visual effects to match the story. Some of the scenes are amazingly realized, especially where the group meets the AI’s very young creators.
Matthew Robinson’s script steadily builds to a hilarious climax that reveals the AI’s ability to upend the truth. The AI train has already left the station and we are trying to install the brakes at the last minute, The Man declared. Probably right.
The 134-minute film speaks to a reality that is already upon us. The future The Man warns about is not far-fetched to imagine. AI could destroy everything we hold dear, but we’ll also see movies like this: Do your best, have fun, and don’t die Let me remind you that machine learning can never beat the human brain.
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