On ‘After Yang’: Finally an AI Film That Isn’t About What It Means to Be Human (Commentary)
thewrap.comSpoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for “After Yang.”One evening in a not-too-distant future, a humanoid robot named Yang (Justin H.
Min) suddenly shuts down. Mika (Emma Malea Tjandrawidjaja), the young girl he has practically raised, is devastated. Her chronically busy parents, Jake (Colin Farrell) and Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) are more irritated than heartbroken by the loss of their live-in babysitter.
When Jake goes to get Yang repaired, he discovers a portal into his memories – and realizes he’s been looking at everything the wrong way.“After Yang,” the second film by “Columbus” writer-director Kogonada, can be hard to pin down.
It falls somewhere between science fiction and speculative fiction, but there are no heroes or villains, space battles or swamp creatures.
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