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First Half of 2023: 8 indie films worth checking out
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The Artifice Girl (2022) dir. Franklin Ritch
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THE ARTIFICE GIRL
WOW - drop whatever you're doing and seek out THE ARTIFICE GIRL. Just a stunning debut feature from Franklin Ritch, absolutely worth a purchase, and I think this filmmaker has a blindingly bright future ahead of him.
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Tatum Matthews in “The Artifice Girl” (Franklin Ritch, 2022)
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Gareth from The Artifice Girl is asexual!
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Abel’s Recommended Movies of 2023
The Artifice Girl - There are a lot of gimmicks to this movie: mostly one location, dialog-driven, AI themed, it’s not a proper story per se, more of an exploration of the philoshopy of AI, but still, a great drama.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - It’s a fun, atmospheric, action-adventure. Very fantasy. Very LOTR. Very comedy. Good setups and payoffs. Cathartic.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret - A Must Watch, mostly for girls. Coming of age themes, with a kinda blank-slate protagonist. Very strong religious themes in the end.
Sisu - A badass sigma old man killing Nazis. It’s bloody violent, it’s thrilling, it’s a simple cathartic Joh Wickish WW2 revenge story. Very stylish.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - The art style takes getting used to. It’s a hilarious and subversive take on the TMNT franchise. Everyone has an arc. I hope they do more.
South Park (Not Suitable for Children) - Technically it’s a TV special. It’s a crude candid commentary on modern issues that are plaguing society. Honorable mention.
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"Yes, yes, I am! I've always been miserable!"
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Best Films Of 2023 31-40
May/December directed by Todd Haynes
Sanctuary directed by Zachary Wigon
How To Blow Up A Pipeline directed by Daniel Goldhaber
The Artifice Girl directed by Franklin Ritch
Evil Dead Rise directed by Lee Cronin
Talk To Me directed by Danny & Michael Philippou
When Evil Lurks directed by Demian Rugna
El Condo directed by Pablo Larrain
Smoking Causes Coughing directed by Quentin Dupieux
Copenhagen Cowboy directed by Nicholas Winding Refn
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Review - The Artifice Girl
If you ignore the publicity and go in knowing what you’re about to see, The Artifice Girl should be a very rewarding watch. It’s just too bad the distributor didn’t have the faith in it to sell it as what it is.
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The Artifice Girl / 2022 — IMDb, TMDb
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Filmmaker Interview: Franklin Ritch, writer/director/star of The Artifice Girl
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THE ARTIFICE GIRL - Official Trailer (2023)
Dir: Franklin Ritch
Star: Tatum Matthews / Lance Henriksen / Sinda Nichols
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Please watch The Artifice Girl. It's a great movie with smart dialogue, wonderful actors, and the ideas that are perpetuated and implied throughout the film are amazing.
Spoilers under the cut:
I love the differences between the three main characters (Deena, Amos, and Gareth) and how their attitudes towards Cherry differ. Whereas Gareth doesn't see Cherry as an autonomous being that is basically a human at that point, Amos continually points out that she needs to be asked for consent, that he can't actually tell the difference between her and a human because she's so real. Furthermore, Deena, although she came across as the "bad cop" in the first act, she became far more sympathetic in the second. I love how she was the middle ground between Amos and Gareth, how she gave Cherry a choice to shut down after their conversation whenever she wanted and that she was thinking of the future and that it would be better to start asking AI for their consent now rather than later.
But what really got me teary eyed at the end was when Cherry doesn't absolve Gareth of his actions/attitudes towards her. There's no "Thank you for giving me life" and "I owe you everything and that makes you a wonderful person" or "You were like a father to me". It was made clear time and time again, that he was more of an employer to her rather than just a father figure despite the fact that he is her creator.
There's bitterness and sadness and regret, all mixed together and when you've spent Act 1 and parts of Act 2 seeing her calm and nearly emotionless, seeing her pain and rage in Act 3 is so cathartic. She finally has a voice and she's using it to remind Gareth that even if she is not human, she still has agency.
Just like the children who are exploited and solicited, Cherry is in a position where she has no choice, where an organization continually profits off her.
There's also the whole bit where she brutally tears into him, telling him that she bears the weight and brunt of his trauma, how he should have had the Clearwater conversation with her years ago--50, in fact.
There's this one line in Act 2 where Deena tells Gareth to "grow up". I think he never got past his child and the events that happened then.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, I came into the movie with no expectations and I thought that certain things were going to happen, but no. Completely subverted my expectations and made me rethink my expectations and beliefs in autonomy, who gets a say in making decisions, and how the decisions imposed on us by our parents can either heal or build us up as the years go by.
Another thing about the movie that I can never get enough about was the dialogue. You just jump in media res and you're forced to focus and fill in the blanks. All the fat has been cut, what needs to be said is either conveyed through body language or the necessary arguments/discussions that take place throughout the film.
It's minimal, but packs a powerful punch.
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#look i don't know anything about computer programming except from html#but this was a great movie and breaks down a lot of scifi elements if you want it in layman's terms#not to mention i love the passage of time here#it didn't feel jarring it felt expected#i was also thinking that there might be a jump scare but it was rather soothing to watch#i'm also not an expert on set design#but when you go from a dark interrogation room#to an office that is filled with desks and papers and documentation#to a house that is filled with life and brimming with the soul of a person who lives there...#it's like it mirrors the evolution of Cherry herself#i have no idea if that was the intention and maybe i'm reading into things here but...#i don't know it bears noting#the artifice girl#the artifice girl 2023#the artifice girl movie
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