Musings of a Sixth-Former

Hello!

It's been a long time. (Just over a month!) I haven't written recently because nothing much has happened lately.

I've decided to change the theme of the blog, because I feel like endlessly reeling off what I did this week is going to get boring. Instead, I will simply discuss things which I assume to be interesting (though I may be wrong about that sometimes). As a result, the posts will probably become shorter than usual. This week, I will be discussing a short sci-fi film, which was written by a predictive AI force-fed sci-fi scripts (also, seemingly, romcom scripts, but I'll get on to that later). The movie is called Sunspring. The result is a rather amusing 9-minute sci-fi/romantic movie. The dialogue is nonsensical; the most logical part is when one character tells another character to explain what they mean and the other character says that they don't understand the meaning of that sentence. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc Fair warning, this moviee is one of the most incomprehensible things I have ever seen.

An image of an AI. Sort of.

There are three scenes; the first is about a man discovering that a woman he coexists with is in a relationship with a much taller, more physically imposing man than him. The second scene gets quite dark, as the two men wind up dead. We don't actually see them die, but it's still pretty dark. At the beginning of the second scene, the man who (presumably) got dumped in the first scene receives a phone call from the woman. This ties in with the third scene; the third scene consists entirely of the woman delivering a monologue, and what she says during the phone call makes an appearance part way through. The monologue is potentially the most incomprehensible part of the entire movie; it seems to be about love, relationships and the need to cut toxic persons out of your life.

The scrawny man, jumping out of hyperspace

This movie makes no sense; however, it doesn't really need to. It was never intended as a serious sci-fi movie; some people were just curious about the effects of getting a predictive AI to write a sci-fi movie, after being trained on other sci-fi movies. On a purely semantic level, it makes loads of sense. Each sentence makes sense on its own, and some even make sense with other sentences. However, there is no coherency between many of the sentences. Arguably, this incoherency makes the movie art; it is insane and abstract because it was designed that way, rather than because it was poorly designed. That insane abstractness makes it brilliant; I was laughing at it for ages afterwards. The comments on the Youtube video are also pretty interesting; half of them are revelling in the hilarity of the movie, and the other half are engaging in a debate about language; is the movie actually incomprehensible, or is it so advanced that it seems incomprehensible to the likes of us?

The other two characters, during a tense moment involving a scanning machine

I would strongly advise readers of this blog to watch Sunspring; you will not regret it. And then, if you are interested in a debate, find the most philosophical person you know, show them the movie and have a chat about whether the movie is incomprehensible or beyond our understanding.

Random stats:
Dog walks walked: Many. It's been a while since the last post.
Days until Christmas: 4
Book I'm currently reading: Travellers in the Third Reich, by Julia Boyd (thanks to my history teacher for recommending it!)
Christmas parties attended: 1 (and it was brilliant!)