Marjorie Prime
I’m think Black Mirror had an episode just like this (in fact I’m sure of it). If you have not seen Black Mirror you should see it before you watch this film (or just watch Black Mirror instead)
So Basically,in the future, technology has gotten to the point that an old woman can own technology that can make a hologram that replicates her dead husband.
It’s a lot like Black Mirror in two ways: Rather than create a hologram that reflected who her husband was when he died, she created one to reflect the man who asked her hand in marriage 30 years ago (played by Jon Hamm). Apparently her husband did not age well (Due to an large age gap between them) , so she picked the man she met in the turning of the century. It does not help that she is coming down with Alzheimer’s so she might not (but more like chose not to) remember the older version, but those around her did, like her daughter,played by Gena Davis who hates the technology and how it allows her mother to live in a lie of her own fragile mind, and her husband, played by Tim Robbins, who sees the advantages of using the tech to make her feel better, to the point that he feeds information to the hologram to make it a better version of her late husband.
The other way it’s like Black Mirror is how flawed the advance technology is. The more you talk to the hologram the more like the person it mimics it becomes. The Hologram hits a snag when you come across three different people who have different views of the man being mimicked and it does not help when one is not a fan of the tech in the first place, and the other is feeding it info she’s not even sure about. In this case, Marjorie Prime contemplate using tech to replace the void left by those who pass, but not a much a fan of how it’s done.
Marjorie Prime gives out good ideas in this slightly Sci-Fi concept based on a play, which they try to replicate on the big screen.
In reality, I wish that this was an episode of Black Mirror. It feels like a good attempt to mimic the show, but it’s not the best. The large amount of well known actors does not do anything to make the movie give you any sort of feelings.
