AIme

Posted by Alan Young

In my previous post Lost in the electronic wasteland I mentioned the despicable movie AIme. Since (Thank God) not everyone saw this tripe, I figured I do the community a service and show you how bad the movie was.

Okay, the basic plot. There’s this guy (I believe his name was Dave) and his wife Amy. They worked in some lab with an AI. To make it easier for people to work with the AI, they gave it a voice modeled on Amy’s. Amy then dies in a car accident. There are then these long drown out conversations between Dave and the AI concerning the meaning of life and what not and Dave discovers that he has fallen in love with the AI. The AI doesn’t return his feelings (Duh, but the movie makes it out as a case of “I like you as a friend.”) Dave gets so worked up about this unrequited love that he commits suicide. Liberals call it a tragic tale of unrequited love, but I call it the tale of a guy – who suffering psychological trauma – develops perverted feelings for a machine.

Besides ignoring the whole, “It’s just a machine, it doesn’t have feelings,” bit, there are several factors that make this movie reprehensible. Let’s start with the title – AIme – is a take off of the dead wife (Amy) but note that the machine part of this perverted relationship is capitalized while the human part isn’t. A subtle hint that humans aren’t as important as machines? Another insult is the complete lack of religion in the movie. Amy has a “natural burial” at the edge of a meadow done by her family and friends without any clergy. When Dave and the AI talk about the meaning of life, God nor any deity is brought up at all. The “meaning of life” they discuss is only the non-meaning of atheism. This is not surprising since the director’s previous work included “What color is the sky?” set in a world destroyed by nuclear war started by “religious” fanatics. The whole meaning of that movie was that religion will destroy the world. I guess the meaning of AIme is that without religion, men will fall in love with AIs. I guess the world is being destroyed without religion.