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Companion Is a Perfectly Mean Romp
Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star in a comedic thriller that’s better with dark twists than it is with big ideas.
Iris (Sophie Thatcher) — a girl of the Zooey Deschanel school in her curtain bangs, headband, winged eyeliner, and retro frills — is shopping when she makes eye contact with Josh (Jack Quaid) in the produce department. She’s the product of a company called Empathix, whose companions are designed to be the perfect partners: customizable, devoted, possessed of just enough fake memories to feel real, and capable of being shut down with a voice command. But at a time in which people are developing meaningful relationships with customizable chatbots, the movie’s correct in grokking that what’s intriguing about artificial intelligence so far aren’t the bigger philosophical questions about consciousness and personhood and ethics.
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