Sep 15, 2022
Filmmaker Kogonada adapts a heady sci-fi story written by
Alexander Weinstein into a thoughtful, melancholic piece about the
nature of existence, artificial intelligence, and the ethics of
personhood. In episode 241, Luke & James consider the “Chinese Room
thought experiment,” debate Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, the
power of immigrants being able to name themselves, the opening
credit dance, depression in a relative utopia, Colin Farrell's lack
of emotion, the difference between written and video essays, and
the value of historical preservation vs. violating privacy.
They end by casting their votes on which was better: the short
story or the movie!
References
- Reckoning 6 (contains Luke Elliott’s short story “What Good is a Sad Backhoe”)
- Unnamed by Monte Lin
Ink to Film
- Buy Children of the New World or any of the other source materials at Ink to Film's bookshop: www.bookshop.org/shop/inktofilm
- Ink to Film's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (@inktofilm)
- Home Base: inktofilm.com
- Intro/outro music: “No Winners” by Ross Bugden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qk-vZ1qicI
Luke Elliott
- Website: www.lukeelliottauthor.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/luminousluke
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/lpelliott/
James Bailey
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jame_Bail