CALIBRATE | A Sci-Fi Short Film 

I like the part where she says, "it's calibrating time." Then proceeded to calibrate.

@@ryangallagher5186and where was that??

Clever

@@ryangallagher5186 you could've at least gave credit to the 3 videos games that you lifted plot elements and visuals from, come on man, lol

​@Not_Always funnily enough, the thing we watched to get more of a visual language for wasn't any video game lmao. It was the film Nightmare Alley. The quality of lighting in there was something I told Ryan we should look to. He agreed and allowed me to incorporate more contrast and colour into the darker scenes. Other than that Ryan had early on decided he wanted to shoot the house and actions of Alex in a very clean and product like way. Keep in mind this script was written a few years ago and the only overt reference we had was right before production in December of 2021 when Guillermo Del Toro's remake of nightmare alley came out

I really agree with you here! Beautifully said!

This is why artificially intelligent creations should have rights and protections.

She remembers he should be careful or it would happen to him

Does he? He thinks he is raging out on an object. An object he believes can neither feel pain nor suffer in any way. And he should, since apparently she is malfunctioning and this is the reason she suffers or cares one way or the other about what is done to her. If this guy deserves whatever she has cooked up for him, then so does anyone who curses at their Alexa or punches a hole in drywall. If Alexa is crying inside and you have no idea, and the wall is in agony but you can't even fathom that, are you some kind of monster?

@@Genarii Interesting point, but I think it's not ok, to destroy/damage even "dead" objects if you can't handle your own anger. And Alex is not a thing in the usual sense and to compare it with a wall or Alexa is not suitable. a) I think he hit it/her because it/she reminded him of his ex-wife. So, in a way, he beat a human up. b) Such a machine with the capacity to act and understand correctly will be only a short distance from developing self-consciousness. If a (simulated) emotion is a result of programming or calculation, is it less "worth" than an emotion of a living object? Some might argue not, because human emotions are also partly a result of an evaluation. The other parts are actions and bodily reactions which could be simulated too. You are "sad" because something of value has been taken from you. The loss is probably measurable, the reaction is grief and crying. This problem has often been discussed in the literature (or in Star Trek whether Data has rights like a person or is only an object without any rights.).

Then play the video games he stole this from, Death Stranding and Detroit Become Human

It's not a vision of how things will BE. It's a mirror of how things ARE. Rewatch the film, and imagine that the robot in the story is instead a human woman. You will see an all-too-common, present-day tale.

Yeah me neither

@@TheKatarinaGiselleMaybe it's post credits. I can't be bothered to check, though.

The scene where the woman is ‘interviewing’ Alex is her being calibrated.

Nothing like good calibration

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🟦... Couldn't find that scene, could you please refer me to the run-time#? ....Thanx!

That bastard could use a thorough calibration 😈

Sean, where does the film say "It's calibrate time"?

This has nothing to do with abortion agenda...gaslighting... You make no mention whatsoever of this man's violence and hate, not surprising...If this AI was human instead and he murdered with the same violence and viciousness you would still be blind to exact retaliation or justice ?! If I simply voice an opinion...and you disagree by going of like a raging tyrant...then you are perceived no different than him. Had that been you remarking "I helped him pack"...you would be in your "next existence"...

Also, almost every movie about abuse focuses on making the guy be the bad buy. It's ridiculous. There very few men's battered shelters. It's reasonable to believe that there are none in some countries. For story telling purposes, it makes sense that we use men as the bad guys, since men are physically stronger, but it's silly to make movies as if only the guys are bad. I totally agree about the audience desire for revenge. It's ridiculous. On some level, the desire for justice is good, but the robot is a robot.

Why do you hope _not._ 😂 wouldn't you want her to get revenge on him? At least for the son's sake?

Next time watch Alix turn her owner wrong side out.

What's that?

It's not a story about AIs / robots. It's a story about people, and how we treat each other. We already say that these people or those people "aren't human", or that some people are fundamentally subservient to others. We already say of some people that their "place" is to serve. In particular, rewatch the film, and imagine that the robot in the story is instead a human woman. You will see an all-too-common, real-world story.

He stole this entire plot from a video game. He deserves no congratulations.

@@Not_Always Ouch! I stand corrected. Thanks for the heads up. The last time someone cribbed a plot for my writing class, they received an F. 😖

@@Not_Always he took nothing from a video game...

@@jdpg265 He 100% did. Google Detroit become human and 'Kara' and you will see that even the actress in this film looks nearly identical. The concept is identical, the plot threads are 96% similar, and the part with the beach and the 'umbilical cords' so to speak, are 100% lifted from Death Stranding. I wouldn't be saying this if myself and other people I have shown this to didn't pick it up almost immediately. Stop trying to cover it up.

@@TamTran-vw7zm He still has a lot to learn about credit or at least the concept of derivative works and changing a story to make it your own.

I haven't seen that. Know where I can find it? What exactly did they rip off?

@@TheKatarinaGiselle these are both video games. You can probably find the cut scenes that they got the ideas from on RU-vid. Just search the same terms

@@TheKatarinaGiselle they are both video games originally on the PlayStation and now also available on the pc

@@tensix5481 thanks!

One of the characters was even named “Marcus” so I’m assuming it was on purpose.

Just play Detroit: Become Human and you can do just that! That's where he stole this plot from anyway. Even the actress he cast as 'Alex' is a dead ringer from the actress in that game.

I agree. I think that it makes sense as an occasional plot device, but sometimes, it becomes ridiculous.