Friendship's Death

What I love about SF is the focus on the question: What is a human?

This question does not each sifi-movie ask. But this one does. For today it may be a bit boring, because there is not much new in the dialogue. This didnt bother me at all, because I like repeat. You can hear one sentence from 100 people and you get 100 sentences, because they said it diffrently. It is intresting what they say in the movie but it is mostly intresting how they say it and who. Tilda Swinton makes an atmosphere that drinks you in this hotelroom, where the conversation is placed.

I just saw it. And tomorrow I want to watch it again.

I suppose the people involved felt too superior to talk to some SF writers or SF fans and not make howlers in their science.

Procyon is a star, not a galaxy. People in the USA seem to keep confusing stars and galaxies, even in some SF series like The Invaders.

It is also not explained how they have the latest news of Earth, being more than 11 light-years away.

And a nuclear winter would kill most people but not everyone. The classic book On The Beach correctly has that as done by Cobalt Bombs, as does Doctor Strangelove.

Since Friendship could easily prove her non-human nature, and even drinks impossible amounts of alcohol to prove it, why not contact the US Embassy and be taken to MIT or the UN?

It is absurd to think that she would be mistreated. She represents an entire alien civilisation with superior technology.

All the talk about Palestinians and Israel misses the basic point - a widespread Jewish view that the whole land should be Jewish. Plus a failure by Palestinians to agree to something like the Oslo Agreement when they still have the Soviet Union there to balance the USA.

There area few comic remarks about machines. But on wider matters, the dialogue is banal, saying nothing new.

It is not a very strong story.no fancy visual effects, no big actions, no big story line conflicts.

The conversations are not that intriguing by today standard since the movie was made almost 40 years ago.

But, but, i just love to watch Tilda Swinton's performance. Such a unique actress, beautiful, charming, great acting.

This film is now an incredible film to watch with so much hi ndsight it talks of AI and the problems of the Palestinian people, it has once again become relevant but probably not a socially acceptable film. I saw this when it came out and enjoyed the performance of an alien viewing Earth as a highly developed humanoid robot, that is appalled at our lack of compassion. The story now once again is relevant and there are surprising echoes of modern issues in it's dated story. I recommend this film and dare you to feel unmoved by what you see now of a problem we still see in the middle east today.

Odd mix of quasi-science fiction with "My Dinner with Andre", plenty of inane babble which is rarely inspired or inspiring, utilizing a "Year of Living Dangerously" theme. Very stagy, with some intriguing shots, but very static and dry. Seeing a young Tilda Swinton -- fresh from theatre -- is the film's main attribute.