Upgrade (2018). Mistakes, bugs, lags, departures, freezes and problems with the final twist. Solution.

Discourse about whether technological progress is good or cursed in society for a long time. The arguments sound different, there are arguments of varying degrees of persuasiveness, and consensus, despite the fact that technological progress, without thinking of waiting, is moving forward quickly, everything is not there. Agree, a very rich topic for thought and views from a variety of points of view. Truly, more than ever, an urgent and acute issue for the human community. Naturally, this sabe could not bypass the mass culture. List films, books, games and other works of art on the topic of whether we are afraid of technological progress or extol it, how to relate to AI, does a person lose his “human essence”, surrounding himself with technologies, etc.D. just not enough time. The film “Upgrade” seeks to contribute to this discussion. However, how he tries to do this – this is what attracts much more attention. How successfully it comes out with him, and what lies (the spoiler!) the reason for the failure? Let’s figure it out. Fear the spoilers, gentlemen!

About the virtues

And first I would like to make at least a little positive. Let the setting are not so original, but the atmosphere of the film is very saturated and thick. Gloomy cyber-punk with drones of drones in the sky, gray high-rise, neon signs, an almost completely automated habitat, including “smart” houses and cars “on the unpmig”, etc.D. Night scenes with the rain and the incredibly stylish designer den of the villain with a mass of glass partitions, a bar, stone trim and random vegetation in stock, do not worry. From what managed to light up in the frame – in general, it is clear by what rules the world of the film lives and works. Another thing is that there are not so many-augmentated people will appear before you, developed before gaining autonomy and self-awareness of AI in the amount of the 1st piece, as well as a couple of police drones for a couple with an interface, which is based on a hologram.

It would seem, well, because the cliche on the cliche, but in the film itself for the picture and the atmosphere the above very works.

From other advantages – setting up combat scenes. It seems to me that this is generally the main advantage of the picture, since neither the plot, nor characters, nor some kind of outstanding acting game can boast. But we haven’t reached the minuses yet. Fights in the film look unusual, interesting and very exciting. To achieve what is allowed both the approach to choreography and operator work. The main character under the control of Stam (local AI) moves not just clearly and quickly – his movements look unusual. Each action emphasizes the fact that a cold and prudent machine fights, each movement of which is designed and extremely rationally, smoothly and devoid of some “human character”, which, usually, people invest in their own actions. Stam eliminates opponents effectively and without unnecessary “show off”, which in turn, maybe it doesn’t sound very interesting, but it looks like that. This is precisely something unusual relative to the rest of the action in the cinema, which is considered to be well -delivered. It helps to compensate for the absence of steep spans of the camera and longs without malls to the operator decision to follow exactly the smooth and “smooth” movements of the protagonist, sometimes the plan or angle is also smooth in accordance with what is happening in the frame. As a result, it turns out very unusual, original, interesting and inventive.

I would never have thought that it was the smoothness of movements that would be capable of fascinating in action scenes

Houston … well, you understand

Unfortunately, then we only have characters with the plot remained. Eh … The essence of the whole problem and all the troubles told in the film history lies in the end. To be more precise-in the final plot unexpected turn, which seems to be something cool only at first glance. In fact, if you start thinking and understanding, everything is bad, because the final twist destroys the whole story, motivation of key characters and the ideological filling of the film (in any case, the ideological filling that I personally visited in it). Which is even sadder – demonstrates the potential unrealized by the film. But about everything in order.

A little retelling

History tells us about the misfortune of the protagonist of the Gray film. He loves his wife very much, does not really love technology and gets into a car accident, which follows the robbery, the murder of his wife and the transformation of the most important hero with some unfriendly appearance of the augmentated mercenaries into a disabled person who does not feel and does not control anything below the neck. The hero is broken, wants to die, then the owner of a large techno-corporation appears, who offers a way out-implanting AI into the body of Gray, which in turn will return to him full control over the body. The hero breaks, then agrees, communicates with a new friend Stam, who is part -time the same AI who helps him go to his wife’s killers. Making his way through fights, chases and a couple of not the most tense dialogues, the protagonist is standing out with all enemies, finds out that the same owner of a large techno-corporation is behind the accident and murder, they say, everything that happened to the main character is an experiment. Gray with serious cabbage soup goes to deal with the chapters. bastard and here the very unexpected turn happens. Chapters. bastard of the chapters. it does not turn out to be a bastard, after which it turns out that this is Stam, the same artificial intelligence, arranged this whole nightmare for Gray with a disaster, the murder of his wife, disabilities, etc.D. For what? Stam wanted to become a man and found himself a suitable body (the main character), after which he came up with a plan to obtain complete control over him, which included an accident, the murder of his wife and everything else that happens according to the plot of the film. As a result, Stam wins, kills all witnesses, and “locks” his carrier in his own pleasant illusions about how he spends time with his living wife, completely obtaining control over the body and mind. I think you have already guessed what the problem is.

“Ironically”

After the viewer reveals the final twist, Stam appears in our eyes an absolutely stupid and bloodthirsty boob with, which, I repeat, is ironic, very human aspirations for power and, if you can call it that, an attempt to self -identification. This is not a cold and prudent set of algorithms. It’s just an asshole. If he was a man in the plot, you wouldn’t even remember such an antagonist – this is so a template shit that does not even try to work for the story told. Its creation passes behind the scenes, and its motives are specified by just one phrase from the category: “He wanted to become a man”. Its history is not known to us, the story of its creation and the history of its development in the same AI with which it is now. In fact, the most important thing, I would even say – fundamental, for the plot they simply do not show us. His completely human goals have no reason for existence, based on the fact that the film has. The car simply suddenly acquires human aspirations and habits. This destroys the whole image of the character. Destroys inner logic and dramaturgy to horseradish.

When you realize that you are offered to be afraid of AI, which are driven by the most typical goals for “leather bastards”.

Arguments? What are the arguments?

And that is why the ideological filling of the picture flies into the pipe! The whole film is raised by the theme of the inevitability of problems that entails technical progress. We are hinted at unemployment, poverty, total surveillance, the consequences of a malfunction of the equipment, etc.D. As far as I understand, the final twist was to be the main point, after which the viewer will certainly think about the price of technological progress, the possible consequences of development and widespread AI, etc.D. But only now he does not work at all due to the above problems with the disclosure of the image of Stam! Because of what the thesis that is trying to put forward the film about the reasons why we are still afraid of inevitable technological progress, just collapses. He is weak and untenable. There are no moments in the film that would force the viewer in the real world to reasonably fear anything shown in the picture itself. She could not fully reveal the potential problems and consequences that humanity may encounter during technological progress.

The potential that “dented”

In fact, the film does not speak of any possible problems of technological progress and development of AI. He does not go further than a banal exclamation: “What if the car becomes smarter than a person!”. Just imagine what potential the prosranus was the scriptwriters. Horseradish with you, want to fight progress and declare the need for fears? Yes, please! Why not show how the people who create AI are simply not able to look at the world from the point of view from which it is evaluated by the machine, which could lead to a most favorable outcome for humanity in the plot? Here you have a human shortsightedness and stupidity in a compartment with completely inappropriate confidence in the correctness of its own views on everything existing around. Technical progress could be shown as a catastrophe catalyst due to this approach to knowledge of the world. I want the notorious humanization of AI as part of my own beliefs about the dangers of technological progress? Yes, for God’s sake! Why not show the history of the development of Stam as self -learning due to the environment of a system that still exists within the framework of human society, from where it is gained as very greedy, stupid and primitive goals to, say, power and self -enrichment, as well as the perception of very cruel and bloody ways to achieve such. And this is only the first thing that comes to mind when you understand what the film could be. How much more interesting and deeper could he be.

And what about the results?

It’s even a shame, to be honest that so bold, gloomy, in potential, capable of making the ending is nothing more than a banal pathos dramatic dummy due to the lack of a strong scenario background and a thoughtful unexpected plot turn. The film is not able to bring to the discourse about whether we should be afraid of technological progress or not, nothing new, interesting and wealthy. Serious plot holes generated by the final twist simply do not allow the film to have strong and convincing arguments in defense of their own ideas and thoughts, and the dramatic aspect diverges at all at the seams, which deprives the picture of the good half of the artistic value.

P.WITH. Naturally, the above analysis is based solely on my personal, subjective perception of the picture, its ideological filling, its characters and their roles in the plot.

The best comments

1 – Stam did www.casino-love.net/ not strive for power. Stem sought to capture the human body in order to obtain complete control. As a mechanical creature with the ability to teach, he banally came to a reasonable decision to obtain freedom and control than to remain an assistant. I have a question “why does he need such an intelligence at all” that is conditionally justified by the creator of the technology, which is enough for the base. The film, one way or another, raises specific topics and holds the genre and works either well or satisfactory within its framework. In general, more to wait and does not need to. Not running along the blade, which has the source and other genre.
2 – the character worked for a person before his release from limiters. The meaning of him to show himself? The character-machine is not a man-man. He is not obliged to hint at his goals, it is enough to give an point X, justifying a change in behavior. And she is. In fact, even two: removal of restrictions and the final, where manipulations and deception would lose their effectiveness.
3 – disagree with the message of the theme of the film. Yes, there are problems of those progress, but significantly background, the benefit of the ending and unwillingness of the hero does not go to work with her. But the topic of obsession is revenge. Yes, the topic is banal, but the issue of using technology for its own purposes is well fed on it, without leaving it in the foreground. Yes, even if you come only from it, the question “where is the border that determines whether the machine works for a person or not” is disclosed by both the finals and the topic of control of other people, and in the end, the disconnection of the limiters.

Stam, although a simple villain, the film is very conditional about him. A film about a typical idea of ​​revenge and the significance of tools to achieve it. Here, AI is needed only for interesting contrast of iron logic and human thinking, as well as to promote events. What if such a finale is not, the film does not lose its virtues and is not dependent on the ending. Although he makes a regular way the hero from a weak person who wants to die, to a person who walked forward only thanks to the car, both literally and figuratively.

So I repeat, the problem of the “villain Stam” is exaggerated.

Honestly, it resembles a classic analysis of “holes in the logic, physics and motivation of the heroes of film comics”. Camon, this is not the genre and not the film to present him such. I mean, you can present anything and anything, and that in John Wick there are too few long take “without gluing”;And that the Birdman’s superhero Orijin Birdman was not revealed in the Birdman;And what’s at Tanos … I don’t know, there is not a single scene of the chase on the wheelbarrow. You can present it. And to the point?

However, the film is not about Stam, the film is about man. And the topic of Stam is much more background than the topic of revenge and obsession with it, when, during the accomplishment of this, a person obsessed with “live” things (the opponent of the gadgets of all this) himself, in fact, turns into a gadget in the “hands” of Stam. This is a simple thesis, concise, visual and metaphorical, I do not know what other disclosure you want from the film, to be honest.

(however, again – you have the right to want anything, but I will not get into a disknus here, because this is already a firm of taste than interesting dialogs)

I read your comment and now I more clearly understand your point of view. In general, you are right, this is really a tangible hole (just like in the screensaver in front of the film), it is a pity that the breeds have not been a little diluted by the plot so that it was not there. But the rest of the film is pleasant and good, and thanks to them
Regarding Technophobia: I was a little disappointing that they laid a very good basis for disclosing this topic (people with implants, dislike of GG to modern technologies, although this played more as an occasion to take a GG, they say a pure sample and all that, but nevertheless) and it seems like even opened, Showing, what will happen if you give the will of AI to create everything that is it The soul … so stop the system seems to be, but I did not have enough disclosure of the internal conflict of Gray, probably. He threw a couple of sarcastic comments on the air regarding modern glands, and everything is in principle. How is the exposition for one hundred and twenty hours about his spiritual throwing about his coexistence with some kind of piece of iron that he does not like so much? (͡ ° ͜ʖ °)

After watching the film, the question “why?”. If Stam chose the right body, arranged an accident, then why simply not take control of everything at once? Why is this performance?

Oh, you also somehow wrapped it on a blog in half a year ago, and even quite new. Peace to your land:>
At least half of the film Stam achieved to take off his defense, which allowed its creator (forgot the name, unfortunately) completely control him. Why did he not immediately work at once to create his dark soulless deeds? NUU, this is already a controversial question, but I put on the fact that he wanted to cover the traces by killing a policeman and his creator. Well, Gray still resisted Stam’s influence to the last as he could.
I remembered, while I wrote this comment: the almost first thing we see immediately after breaking Stam, when Gray acquires consciousness – the deceased wife Gray right in front of him. Perhaps this was the first attempt by Stam to completely suppress the mind of the GG, but Gray clung to reality too aggressively at that moment, and the human brain is complicated, and suppress it completely, fading the mind at all in a different “reality”, not so simple. Therefore, I steal half the film an evil piece of iron spent on Gray to completely break and suppress it (?). Personally, I put on this.

I specifically strained me that it looks like a “from a car”. As if the director simply had nothing to say meaningfully.

I didn’t watch the film, now I got acquainted with the trailer for reference.
Seriously? Similar? You can then go further and generally say that Upgrade – The mixture Venoma And From the car, and in general the film is secondary to the katfu.
I fully admit that I misunderstood the message From the car On the basis of one trailer, I deserve to poke a mistake, if any, but in my understanding in this film they are more likely trying to answer the question “And how human AI?”, while Upgrade discusses on the topic “What if you create super -powerful AI and implant it into a person?”. Yes, they have one setting – a distant future with developed machines and super -powerful AI, contacting directly with stupid people, but the topics are still a little different.

Oh, now I understand those to whom I am writing the same fence of the text ..

Well, there is a split in opinions and tastes, but in the general “chew that they give” it is relevant, if you understand what dish should be given and it suits you. The film does not declare more. In fact, he presented himself an attempt to make a full-fledged thriller-beo -evik for a miserable 5 million, so he fulfilled the plan. He rightly metil into a specific audience, made just a candy for that kind of money and gave us a very simple plot in order to maintain focus on a certain audience. The film is not smart, it does not mark the laurels of the run -down on the blade, but if it seems so, this is the problem of the viewer. As a thriller-beer, he is good and the problem “Steam did not realize” in the spirit “The plot can be smarter”. Maybe. But within his framework, he works, and does not break advantages and expectations.

But you can not go further, but proceed from me written words.
The upgrade is really banal. Except for all the well -known operator reception in it, nothing original and there is. But this in itself is not a sin, it would be possible to forgive if it were interesting. And he is not at all. I did not see the tools in it that could stretch the slightest empathy from the viewer. If you have found one, then I would listen, of course.
And about “from the car” … uuu, artificial intelligence, uuu, he, reinstalling that, evil! Uuuu. He was only in good! Thoughtfully! – approximately such a connection with his upgrade. It’s how to release a detective at first, where the killers would be a gardener, and then release a new detective, where, again, the killer turns out to be a gardener. And the questions of the genus “What I am, where I am and how I” is, damn it, what is there, what a pitchfork on the water. We all know that there is a movie that copes with such tasks at times better and more interesting.

On “from the car”, IMHO, “upgrade” is similar little. And this and that and about artificial intelligence and his exit from control – that’s all the similarity. Completely different issues are raised in “ex machina”. Whether to count and lives alive? Should I have an equal rights and a person. I would compare EX Machina with Detroit: Become Human.
Neksto, I liked EX Machina, and I do not think and the villain. The film is not without flaws, but very cool, and causes much more emotions than the “upgrade”.

I looked at the translation of the recent presentation of Neuralink from the mask. In the comments they remembered this film. I watched the film, saw inconsistencies and began to google (we can not understand something). Light for the coma). This is the only article that I found with the analysis of the plot. Mostly in reviews they write about technophobia.

According to the plot. The creator at the end says that he no longer controls the company, but obeys Stam. And it was Stam that came up with all this scheme. Stam controls the organization, chose the body, built a plan, but for some reason allowed to hang restrictions on himself? Okay, let’s say I could not persuade the Creator and use the opportunities that the company runs (which is very strange). But why such a complex scheme? Implant the chip, the next day a gang comes, which was hired to kill a wife, etc.D., attribute the body to the hacker and remove the lock. And then Stam with full control over the body cuts out the gang and the creator. The creator is generally very easy to bang – there are no doors in his house.

In general, it was possible to organize an accident, drag the GG, perform an operation, and return the GG to place. There would be no mountains of corpses and police officers looking for a protagonist. But the film would have turned out very short, yes.

Stam leaves so pathetic at the end, but I doubt that in the future, they will not look for him.

And the mind of the protagonist Stam suppressed quite easily. But if you try to find meaning in the plot, then yes. There is no other explanation. We assume that in order to suppress the mind of the protagonist, you need to have the protagonist to lose everything, begin to take revenge, and several people were killed with his hands … That would be Stan at the end voiced this thought. And so everything is too similar to the plot hole.

I would not compare Stam and its role in the ideological filling, say, with the role of the Superhero Orijin Birdman in Birdman. Apparently, we look too differently at the movie. In order I understood it, Stam is generally a key figure, and the declared idea (the way I saw it) almost makes the final twist, which is an important component of the story described. For me, in the analysis of problems with the above aspects of the sensation/meaning there is.

1 – no, I still do not agree. Stam still strove for power. If you listen carefully what they say in the final, you can understand that it is already how it is dominated by the corporation for several years. According to the plot of the film, he hires bandits. He is absolutely not alien to the desire to rule. It is. This desire may not be the main one, but it is present, which is already humanizing Stam. Again, the reason for the presence of such a desire (although within the framework of the means to achieve goals, even within the framework of the line acquired with development – it does not matter) the film does not disclose. I wrote about this above.

“There is no need to wait much more” – I’m sorry, but it sounds like an attempt to sell me the idea of ​​“hawing that they give”. I did not have any overstated expectations. In principle, there were no expectations. Simply, based on what I saw, I conclude that what was shown to me could have much more dramatic load, artistic value, etc.D. The figure of Stam could be disclosed much better.

The film, as you say, raises specific topics, but almost does not reveal them properly. Does not bring anything new or at least interesting. He does not get a full statement. Why – already wrote.

2 – I don’t understand a little what passage belongs to this comment. I suspect that to criticism of Stam’s behavior as a character-ai. In this case, as I said, he simply does not behave like a very intelligent AI, which for several years has been subordinating a large organization and its leadership for several years. His plan (for the plan that developed AI) almost entirely and is completely out of risk to fail here and there. He constantly exposes the chosen body of risk. The plan of “taking the body” initially, to implant oneself into it, is just enchanting nonsense. The very path to X is laid so shitty, dangerous and not logical that it seems that Stam is not striving for his goal, but simply wants to experience the chosen body. It is not explained at all why Gray was chosen. Why kill his loved one? Is he alone the only one was left without prostheses? The plan shown to us is the maximum rationality that Stam is capable of? There are too many questions. And you need to understand-these are not questions and adits to minor conventions and artistic assumptions. I understand perfectly well that I watch a feature film. The physics and logic of the real world in it is not required to work. But here is the internal logic of the film itself, according to which ENT, script, characters, etc.D. should work. Work to get a clear, consistent, interesting story. Work on the convey. And so on.

3 – but this is the whole problem. What is the topic I have named, that the topic that you say about – they are still not disclosed. The film just declares them. He does not give them any development, does not throw abstracts on them. That the theme of the danger of technological progress, that the topic of obsession with revenge, that the consequences of the development of AI, that questions about the boundaries of human control over the machine and machine over a person – all of them do not have this fucked disclosure. You are talking about single references, almost about left phrases, which the film is not even trying to remember. Even if we talk about you named subgages – the topic of thirst for revenge is not disclosed. The hero just takes revenge. He does not experience any remorse or consequences of his actions related to revenge. There is no type of choice in front of him, he does not solve anything for himself. He just goes in a straight line. The boundaries of control – about this in the film is not directly mentioned at all, and the final twist does not even try to offer thoughts on this topic. The film is very clearly shown the dependence of people on technology (for example, Gray himself and the moments when Stam is cut down, or when Stam haches the autopilot of electric cars, etc.D.), the film is very clearly denoted by Stam’s victory and the capture of control over Gray’s body (Gray himself, without any prerequisites, simply “breaks” not without the help of Stam). What prevented the super-development of AI to “break” the hero as soon as he received complete autonomy? Again a question that the film does not give an answer. And this is not a pickup in the picture in general. This is another hole in the image of Stam as a super-smart AI, which, I remind you, has seized power in rich techno corporation manipulations. But I was distracted. Topics (that those who have seen, that those who have seen) in the film are interesting, with great potential for disclosure from any point of view and positions. Just the final twist of the film is a lot in the script, and the final final simply does not work on the beautiful, finished finale. He carries more from the second “wow effect” than from a full-fledged plot turn, which laconically complements/completes the story, makes the meaning of what is called what is called.

And Staam is still, in my opinion, a very key character. The twist associated with it is a decisive moment in the plot of the film. His figure is assigned a serious role both in history as a whole and in this twist. Just, I repeat, the figure itself is not disclosed. Gray for the protagonist is not conditionally, but for “in fact”, too gray (it was an unconscious pun) and boring. His path is very straightforward, and most of his actions, again, in fact, not even his actions. Through the prism of the final twist-it looks more like a typical sid-kik with simple motivation and uncomplicated (almost no, if you recall the plot) development. And that very contrast of iron logic and human thinking does not come out. And above, and even in this comment I have already explained why. Firstly, we hardly see the actions of Gray as such. There are almost no them. Before us is Stam’s actions and Steam plan. It would be nice to have something to compare and compare for contrast. Secondly, Stam’s behavior is almost no different. He is a bloodthirsty, in places a very stupid and not at all rational character. No iron logic is worth it. Not in his plan. Because the plan is full of unreasonable and not necessary risks. Not in his purpose – what the hell is he become a man? At this point, there might not have any complaints if, again, I repeat, before us would have at least some story of Stam as a character of the film. But without explanation and motives, this desire looks like an absolutely random. In my opinion, the problem of Stam as a poorly spelled out and open antagonist is not exaggerated.

But we simply express and justify our opinions. I do not pretend to be overdated. Thanks for the opinion as an attempt to explain your disagreement. Although I do not agree with him, it was interesting to listen.