It's actually a romance

Rico 2022-04-22 07:01:06

This is a science fiction film, a suspense film, and a romance film.
Science fiction is about the awesome artificial intelligence; the
suspense is whether the artificial intelligence is Will or PINN;
and love is telling us at the end of the film that the so-called high-tech so-called "ambition" to change the earth is completely Will to Evelyn love;
Will has always been Will, he can always accompany Evelyn by his side, he can keep telling the happy past between him and her, but he is still not satisfied.
He used high-tech magical means to heal the first human being and to control the first human being, in order to tell her: I can touch u now (I can touch u now in a movie theater, I can't play it back, that's what I said). He was not satisfied with a virtual image for company, and was more eager to touch his lover, but he saw from Evelyn's eyes that it was not what she wanted.
So he went to heal more human beings, got more "believers", and gained more power, and he wanted to create a real Will.
Even the "conspiracy to control all mankind" to panic humans is only to satisfy Evelyn's desire to use high technology to change the earth, remove pollution and improve the environment.
So it's just a love story of how a man loves and protects his lover, just dressed in sci-fi and suspense.

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Transcendence quotes

  • Max Waters: I spent my life trying to reduce the brain to a series of electrical impulses. I failed. Human emotion, it can contain illogical conflict. Can love someone, and yet hate the things that they've done. Machine can't reconcile that.

    Evelyn Caster: Can you?

    Max Waters: Yes.

  • [first lines]

    Max Waters: They say there's power in Boston. Some phone service in Denver. But things are far from what they were. Maybe it was all invevitable. An unavoidable collision between mankind and technology. The Internet was meant to make the world a smaller place. But it actually feels smaller without it. I knew Will and Evelyn Caster better than anyone. I knew their brillance. Their dedication to what they believed in. And to what they loved.