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Hear me out: why Chappie isn't a bad movie (2021)
- walterbell 3y ago2017 interview, https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/looking-back-at-chappie-with-director-neill-blomkamp/ https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/looking-back-at-chappie-wit... It’s not about AI. Ex Machina’s about AI. Chappie’s not about artificial intelligence – it’s meant to be asking questions about what it means to be sentient ... That doesn’t mean AI, that means sentient at all. If you are sentient, if you are conscious, first of all, what does that mean? Because you’re watching the birth of consciousness with Chappie. ... The main reason for Chappie existing in my mind is because it has the most farcical, weird, comic, non-serious pop-culture tone, that is almost mocking or making fun of the fact that it’s talking about the deepest things you can talk about. The fact that those two things exist in the same film is what the film is about. Because that’s what the experience of life is about. It’s an unknowable question, and no one’s going to answer it for you.