Edgar Cochran ✝️’s review published on Letterboxd:
“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”
-Isaiah 11: 6-9
Pro-environmentalist tales celebrating life and biodiversity will forever find a special place in my heart. The formula is absolutely ordinary, but the fullness of spirit embedded in the storytelling makes up for everything else. I have zero problems with simplistic tales of this caliber being released today, as I had never been this cheerful due to a DreamWorks Animation project since the original Shrek (2001) which I saw at the theaters at the age of 11. How to Train Your Dragon (2010) is close to the case I am describing here save for the half-baked impact it aimed for envisioning a tale of worlds separated by nature and hatred, both human and animal. In here, AI technology is finally presented in a sensationalist apocalyptic light like Cameron and the Wachowskis did; as dangerous as the development of an AI consciousness might be, and as hysterical the Facebook story might be of two AI bots being shut down after the terrifying realization of them creating their own language incomprehensible to humans (which now media wants to sell as “they were not afraid; they simply shut them down because humans could not understand”), AI posits human benefit as long as it’s not made by the same sinful and distorted interests. Anything that rebels against the inherently evil human essence will be perceived as a danger and a conflict will happen.
83/100
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