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What movie did people miss the point of the most?
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The US cabinet deserves to die if it acts impulsively and kills innocents without culpability. Everyone brushes this movie as a silly AI movie (which it is for some of its runtime) but it's mainly about an AI being pissed at humans for not wanting to think critically
I suspect if the AI's plan hadn't involved the death of a number of innocents in order to execute it's attack on the US executive then the audience may have actually sympathised with it.
The ending I remember being a bit disjointed to the point where the conclusion I reached was that the AI was almost deliberately destroying itself in a dramatic and public way, especially as it had made a big point about civil liberties early on.
Yeah that is true. I guess I'm also a little shocked that the movie that was so directly critical of the administration at the time (Right down to having a scene in which the President reads Good Night Moon to a classroom.) didn't draw more controversy at the time. But I'm guessing I'm looking through 2026 eyes.
ARIA doesn't directly decide to destroy itself, you might be thinking of Echelon Conspiracy, the Asylum-level Eagle Eye knock off where the AI does choose to delete itself after assessing that it is a risk to human rights.