Synopsis
Human fear of technology is portrayed in this very amusing futuristic parody.
1988 Directed by Bill Kroyer
Human fear of technology is portrayed in this very amusing futuristic parody.
Технологическая угроза, 科技的威胁
u either die a corporate slave or live long enough to become a class traitor. the robots aren't the problem, dummy! its your fucking BOSS
This is honestly very relevant now that I think about it. With AI becoming more advanced, this seems like it could be a reality.
one of the other kids in film club’s uncle directed this??! and it was nominated for an academy award in 1988?!?! wow
In a show of self-preservation, an office worker fights back when his compatriots are replaced by robots upon their first sign of human frailty.
I like how our hero uses the robots' own design against them, particularly in the sequence where the robot continuously bounces back smashing into different objects.
There's a moment - a brief moment - when our office worker seems to recognize that it's the powers-that-be who are the enemy, and not the fellow workers (mammal or otherwise). But in the end it's easier to capitulate to the system than break it.
holy shit!!!! just like real life!!!!!!!
that fucking ending what a punch. just when you think they get it, when they're working together against THE BOSS! and then!!! fuck!!!!!
Benefits more than it should from the extreme uncanniness of its CGI characters, the design of whom I don't even like, but there's some fun gags here as CGI'd robots take the jobs of hand-drawn nerd versions of Tex Avery wolves, particularly the flesh-supremacist, borderline-sociopathy of the very final joke. (It's unreasonably current, of course, but the whole pessimistic point of stories like these is that they could only ever get moreso as time marches on. For the record, I can't tell you what kind of ink-and-paint system was used on the salaryman wolves. Pretty sure they were xerographed and hand-painted; they, at least, have an appealing... I don't know what, let's call it "USA Channel animation feel.") The best…
Real writers being replaced with robot ones? Where have I seen this one before?
Seriously though, the fact that this was released about 35 years ago and is so on-point with it's messaging is insane.
To watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiTgoRR3tbk
It is very funny that this got beaten out by Tin Toy, which is more of a tech demo than something with any actual narrative focus.
Capitalism is bad, yo.