“Five Exciting Fantasy Movies: What to Watch This Fall Weekend A selection of exciting fantasy films about the interaction of humans with artificial intelligence and space adventures. Among the tapes are “Child Robot”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “She”, “X-Machina” and “After Young”.”, — write on: unn.ua
Child is a robot (I Am Mother) 2019 – the events of the film take place in the future, after a global cataclysm, as a result of which all humanity on Earth was destroyed. In a bunker isolated from the outside world, a program is being activated, the purpose of which is to save people from complete extinction. A special nanny robot grows a baby from an embryo that can revive human civilization. For many years, the robot teaches and educates the girl, telling her about the terrible disaster and the role that was prepared for her. However, one day a strange woman enters the station. She does everything to make the girl doubt her ideas about the world and the real intentions of the Robot Mother.
- Genre: Movies, Thrillers, Horror, Fantasy,
- Country: Australia
- Director: Grant Sputor
- Actors: Luke Hawker, Hilary Swank, Clara Rugor-Larsend, Rose Byrne.
2001: A Space Odyssey (2001: A Space Odyssey) 1968 – millions of years ago, a black monolith of alien origin came to Earth, which managed to teach terrestrial primates manual labor, which contributed to the further development of their brains. In 2001 AD evolution allowed humanity to conquer the outer space and colonize the moon, where the same monolith was found, which has the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped. The crew of the spaceship “Discovery” flies to the orbit of Jupiter to study another discovered black rectangle.
- Genre: Adventures, Detectives, Fantasy
- Country: USA, Great Britain
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Actors: Keir Daly, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzek.
She (Her) 2013 – the main character Theodore Twombly is not going through the best of times: ahead of him is a divorce from his beloved woman, with whom they spent many years in marriage. This is a real tragedy for him, and it is impossible to fully understand how all this will greatly affect his future life. In order to somehow overcome loneliness, Theodore decides to purchase an operating system based on artificial intelligence. Her main ability is her quick learning and the fact that she very quickly adopts the mindset of her master. Soon, communication with the operating system helps Theodore to revise his views on life, and he even begins to have some feelings for her.
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Country: USA
- Director: Spike Jonze
- Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Lisa Renee Pitts, Chris Pratt.
Ex-machine (Ex Machina) 2015 – genius programmer Caleb has been working for a multi-billion dollar corporation for a long time. One day he is given the opportunity to visit the luxurious country house of his boss. Caleb was invited to the cottage to conduct research on a new artificial intelligence embodied in a female body. The computer mind was named Eve. In addition to being very intelligent and beautiful, the half-human, half-robot was also endowed with a deep inner world. Little by little, Caleb begins to feel sympathy for Ava, forgetting that she is not a woman of flesh and blood.
- Genre: Detectives, Dramas, Thrillers, Fantasy
- Country: Great Britain
- Director: Alex Garland
- Actors: Domhnall Gleeson, Corey Johnson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander.
After Young (After Yang) 2021 – The film is set in a future where most of the daily work is done by robots. The social system is structured in such a way that robot children are bought as nannies, engaged in raising children from the day they are born and later become full members of the family. Jake and Kira are a couple who decided to adopt a teenage girl named Mika who lived in China. The android robot Young works as a babysitter in the family, who unexpectedly falls into a coma after experiencing some internal failure. Father and daughter are trying to save the robot, which during its service has become a close relative for them on a par with a person.
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy
- Country: USA
- Director: Kogonada
- Actors: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Maleya Emma Theandravijaya, Justin Min, Orlag Cassidy, Richie Coster.