(R)Evolutie

I love Gattaca and this falls right in the same category. No spaceships or runs around Saturn but just regular people about 20 years from now. Things have changed and everyone has their own personal assistant called Alecto. Like Alexa and Siri mixed into an android. Played quite convincing by Angela Schijf. Personal relationships and couples with their own doubts are lured into something they might not decide themselves by the AI. The outcome is possitive for some and negative for others it seems. Watch this if you like movies with a deeper meaning.

I suppose this one could be remade in English to attract a (slightly) bigger audience, but nevertheless very well executed. The filmography, locations and set dressing are top notch.

(R)Evolutie offers a view into a future where artificial intelligence offers "help" and suggestions in every aspect of our lives. It's dystopic and futuristic but also so relatable and bordering on actual events that it's frightening. The dialogues are very good and reflect all kinds of dilemmas that come up when we let technology decide everything. It's not that this movie explores new territory, we've seen these themes and dilemmas before, but this movie makes it feel as if this dystopic world really is a possible outcome of current developments. Nothing spectacular. It's just a peak into the very ordinary lives of very ordinary people with their very ordinary problems in the not so distant future. This could be us in twenty years and in several ways this already is us.

Don't watch this if you need guns and explosions and chases every five minutes to keep you interested. Watch this if you want to explore the pros and cons of the growing influence of technology on everyday life. And watch it just for the fun of it. Where else are you going to see an early morning meeting with a fridge, a toaster and their cranky owner after he's been denied his glass of juice?

The acting was fairly decent. As a native Dutch speaker I'm easily distracted when speech and intonation are a bit off. That happens in this movie too, particularly in the scenes with Frank (Bruno Vanden Broucke) and Ricky (Michiel Blankwaardt). The other scenes are much better and Angela Schijf plays a very convincing android. Best part is the first scene where a couple is deciding in the doctor's office what they want their new kid to be like. This one at least deserves to be seen and discussed.