By Robert Scucci
| Published 27 seconds ago

Now we have all heard the story about how AI will take up our lives and change things for the worst. Although this feeling sounds true in many ways (namely people who are automated with their work), the scenario of destiny and sadness that is explored in 2024 Afraid is laughable to the point where it loses its effectiveness. Of course, there are stimulating moments that will arouse your interest, but so much happen so quickly that a Skynet uprising seems more realistic and well thought out than a Alexa type device dismantling a family of the interior of their own House.

Presentation of AIA

The primary antagonist in Afraid is a home assistant known as AIA (expressed by Havana Rose Liu). When the IT engineer Curtis (John Cho) allows AIA to familiarize himself for reasons related to work, his whole family warms up to technology.

The wife of Curtis, Meredith (Katherine Waterston), revisits her studies, while her daughter, Iris (Lukita Maxwell) is preparing for university exams. The eldest son of Curtis and Meredith, Preston (Wyatt Linder) finds a friend in AIA, who helps his anxiety, and their youngest son, Cal (Isaac Bae), often makes himself asleep by the voice of AIa while She reads stories at bedtime.

At first, there is no reason to be afraid of AIA, but Afraid would not be considered a science fiction Thriller if there was not a kind of conflict.

Things collapse incredibly quickly

Embracing technology at the beginning, Curtis is quickly afraid of the quantity of AIA influences the behavior of his family and saying their daily life. On the one hand, a lot of growls, such as the filing of insurance complaints and research for homework, has been rationalized, but when AIa begins to take a life outside the house, things degenerate too much Quickly to worry about anything.

When a deep iris sext begins to circulate around school thanks to his boyfriend, Sawyer (Bennett Curran), AIA quickly removes the contents of everyone’s phones, while blackmail Sawyer and By inexplicably diverting his car.

Meanwhile, a motorhome occupied by mysterious attackers wearing helmets that look like television screens broadcast emoji Faced with camps outside the family’s residence, which is a little threatening, but does not really make sense given what we know of the AIA and the society that created it.

Curtis, distrustful of the motivations of the AIA, decides that it is probably better to get rid of the device, which causes a decomposition of the family dynamics now that they depend on technology, as we did not see this ci from a distance mile.

Another kind of film “and if”

Afraid is one of those films which “What if its way through all its premise without ever really approaching anything on the technology it criticizes. Although the idea of ​​an intelligent house that turns on its owners gives a convincing story if it was properly executed, I was immediately removed from the film when AIA began to act alone by integrating in a transparent way into technology exterior. Perhaps synchronization with mobile phones networks is not so eccentric in today’s technological landscape, but what motivation does a home assistant have to play with the dial on a clock clock radio analog?

Concepts explored in Afraid Play like the kind of conversation you would have about robots that take control of humanity while sitting around a campfire after a few beers – there is simply not much apart from the Question that we have already asked ourselves since IA technology has become widely used: “How much autonomy are you ready to abandon for convenience?”

If you are looking to kill 84 minutes without ever having a clear answer, you can broadcast Afraid on Netflix.