MACHINE LEARNING
Maxine is an astronaut / computer nerd.
On a mission to try to look to outer space
But they are still orbiting earth.
Find life in the galaxy
With her telescope CF JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
NEW HUBBLE in Halo orbit.
Close to real science / reality
What happens on earth is a mystery
Another astronaut she was with has disappeared.
MATS, her co-pilot is the love intrest
We find out that he's a virtual avatar,
Embodiment of the computer on board.
Him being a movie star adds an interesting extra layer.
He is after all nothing more than a construct
Maxine seems to be on a solo mission.
She tries to keep in shape.
Mats tries to keep her sane.
Maxine gets messages from her parents
From her sister and her niece
From a man called Fred
She sends messages back.
And deletes them
she talks to her shrink on-line.
to her ex, Fred
to her fellow astronauts
Constant stress is losing power.
losing oxygen
Mats is urging her to charge all the time.
She shuts down systems, and connections
In a flashback we find out what happened
To the other copilot.
He wanted to head back to earth.
She shut him out.
But there seems to be a mysterious being on board the Spacecraft.
Grounded science-fiction.
About us about today/ Tomorrow
A parable on love and loneliness in the near future, with the backdrop of a planet in danger.
Closer to earth
In our own galaxy,
heroïne making computer models,
based on telescope info
Maxime tries to point her telescope to earth, where clearly there are things going on...
Mats and the computer do everything to avoid this.
Conflict ensues
ELEMENTS
Continuous analogy between life in apartment 15 st
Life in a spaceship.
Play on what is reality?
Game makes his own reality.
We make our own reality.
Computers and AI Feed us a reality
She has to find life in the universe.
She has to find a life for herself.
She has to try to find a habitable planets
She has to try to convince people that life on earth is precious
Analogy in Maxines love life
She made her ask go away.
He is still out there, and cares for her.
She is being fed Lies. On what Earth still is
Fake images
theme of AI controlling, steering our thoughts
Analogy. statistically we can't be alone.
but so hard to find
not only distance but also time
playing on real science cf. voyager-docu
Analogy. Power cut in the city,
She's out on her terrace, watching the stars
with her telescope pointed downward there's Mayhem.
Maxine manages to hook herself up to the machine
become part of global Machine. Shuts it off from the inside.
what was the truth?