Review of Free Guy (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 23 Aug 2021

(Mauro Lanari).

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization." Once this speech has been enunciated by Agent Smith, Neo's sense of heroism and the whole saga fades, but it is not easy to realize it, even after years: the problem lies not in the external constraints to us, but in the internal ones. The filmography on the development of AI suffers from a similar contradiction: become indistinguishable from our existence, in what would it be better? "Free" guy: really? "But this — all of this is academic" (cit.).