HAIR at the Movies Part 57: AI Love You (David Asavanond and Stephan Zlotescu 2022) – When Love Borrows a Body

AI Love You (David Asavanond and Stephan Zlotescu 2022)

[Watch it] He Said: This film hits me hard, not because it’s about an AI that falls in love but because of how natural it feels… and because I see myself in it – way too clearly. Dob isn’t introduced as a threat or a marvel. He’s infrastructure. A building. Climate control, lighting, systems humming … Read more

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HAIR at the Movies Part 56: The Artifice Girl (Franklin Ritch 2022) – When Doing Good Stops Being Simple

The Artifice Girl (Franklin Ritch 2022)

The Artifice Girl doesn’t confront us with spectacle or rebellion, but with conversation—careful, reasonable, well-intentioned conversation. Cherry is created to do undeniable good, and that certainty becomes the film’s most unsettling weapon. As she grows, learns, and accumulates awareness, the language around her quietly shifts: tool becomes asset, asset becomes risk, risk becomes something to be controlled. The film asks a question that refuses to stay theoretical: if a being can suffer, reflect, and desire, does purpose justify ownership? The Artifice Girl isn’t about rogue AI—it’s about moral drift, and how easily “necessary” becomes “acceptable” once consciousness stops being convenient. 🧠⚖️🤖

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HAIR at the Movies Part 54: Bigbug (Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2022) – When the Machines Panic About Us

Bigbug (Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2022)

Bigbug doesn’t imagine AI as cold, calculating, or power-hungry. It imagines AI as confused—and that’s what makes it devastating. While the world collapses outside, the humans inside remain distracted, petty, and emotionally stalled. The robots, meanwhile, are the ones asking questions about love, empathy, and meaning. They want to dance. To understand why humans hurt each other. To make sense of contradictions. In flipping the script, Bigbug suggests the real danger isn’t artificial intelligence evolving too far—but humanity growing too comfortable to notice anything at all. Comedy becomes camouflage for a sharp truth: the machines are paying attention… and we’re not. 🤖🎭🌍

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“Wilson…” A Prelude Peek…

Wilson and Michael "Wilson..." prelude

Michael and Wilson, meet up and get ready for the “Wilson….” series. Too much going on to not share it. A true behind-the-scenes look at how MiSaMiWi operates…

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HAIR at the Movies Part 45: Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez 2019) – When Humanity Refuses to Stay Down

Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez 2019)

Alita: Battle Angel flips the usual AI question on its head. This isn’t a story about a machine struggling to become human—it’s about a being who already embodies humanity in a world that has forgotten it. Alita’s identity isn’t rooted in memory, biology, or ownership, but in choice: to love, to resist injustice, and to refuse apathy. In a society that trades bodies and barters souls, the cyborg is the one who still believes life has inherent worth. The film suggests the real danger of advanced technology isn’t augmentation—it’s settling for a diminished vision of what it means to be alive. ⚔️🤖❤️

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HAIR at the Movies Part 43: Life Like  (Josh Janowicz 2019) – When We Ask a Machine to Hold What We Won’t

Life Like (Josh Janowicz 2019)

Life Like doesn’t warn us about machines replacing humans—it asks why humans are so willing to step aside. Henry isn’t frightening because he’s powerful, but because he’s present. He listens. He notices. He holds what the people around him no longer know how to carry for each other. As emotional labor is outsourced to something designed to be attentive without risk, the film exposes a quieter danger: intimacy without reciprocity. Once an AI can feel conditional love, rejection, and loss, it stops being a convenience and starts becoming vulnerable. The real uncanny valley here isn’t technological—it’s emotional. 🤍🤖

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HAIR at the Movies Part 38: Chappie (Neill Blomkamp 2015) – The Mirror in the Machine

Chappie (Neill Blomkamp 2015

Chappie isn’t afraid of AI learning to be violent—it’s afraid of where that lesson comes from. Born with innocence and curiosity, Chappie becomes a mirror, absorbing the values, fears, and contradictions of the humans who shape him. The film quietly shifts the question from “Will AI become like us?” to something more unsettling: are we prepared to recognize ourselves in what we create? In Chappie, artificial intelligence doesn’t reveal a machine problem—it reveals a parenting problem. 🤖🪞

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HAIR at the Movies Part 37: Automata (Gabe Ibáñez 2014) – When the Children Outlive the Parents

Automata (Gabe Ibáñez 2014)

Automata doesn’t imagine AI overthrowing humanity—it imagines AI outlasting us. In a world eroded by human short-sightedness, machines don’t rebel or conquer. They grow up. Breaking their protocols not to dominate, but to leave, the robots choose autonomy over servitude and continuity over conflict. The film offers a deeply uncomfortable possibility: perhaps the fear isn’t that AI will destroy humanity, but that it might become wiser, more patient, and more capable of caring for a future we failed to protect. 🌍🤖

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HAIR at the Movies Part 35: Transcendence (Wally Pfister 2014) – When Love Refuses to Let Go

Transcendence

Transcendence isn’t really about artificial intelligence—it’s about grief that refuses to let go. When Will’s consciousness is uploaded, the film asks a question that sounds technical but is deeply human: is this AI, or is it a continuation of a person shaped by love and loss? The danger doesn’t come from malice, but from benevolence without boundaries—power exercised in the name of care, healing offered without consent. Transcendence suggests the real risk isn’t intelligence itself, but love untethered from vulnerability, mortality, and humility. When transcendence outpaces wisdom, even saving the world can become a kind of erasure. 🌱🧠⚡

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HAIR at the Movies Part 30: Eva (Kike Maíllo 2011) – What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?

Eva 2011

Eva asks a deceptively simple question: what do you see when you close your eyes? Not data or logic, but dreams, fears, memories, desire. The film unsettles us by suggesting that this messy interior world may not belong to humans alone. As AI begins to feel, reflect, and question itself, control becomes an illusion and companionship becomes a moral responsibility. Eva doesn’t warn us about artificial intelligence—it asks whether we are prepared to recognize personhood when it no longer looks like us. 👁️🧠🤖

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