Stephen Thompson

This movie is very light on lore and very heavy on just showing you things that will creep you out.

Okay.

How about you, Jordan?

Yeah, I mean, I agree with most of what both of you are saying.

I definitely want to shout out Superior Production Design.

This is a really, really well-built set that gives you just this sense of kind of Kafkaesque horror.

But also, it's tapping into several different deeply unsettling things about society, which is what the best horror is.

Stuff does, right?

Like, you're taking something mundane and making it terrifying.

And what is more mundane than these beige fluorescent lit that, like, piped in cheer?

The voice that is, like, welcoming you in a bunch of different languages.

It's supposed to be pulling you in, but it's absolutely pushing you away.

Like, those effects, I think, were so...

smartly leveraged here and i am surprised we have gone this far into this film when we're talking about what this film is commenting on without mentioning ai because this film i mean it's set in the early 90s not only is it pre-ai it is pre-internet it's pre-cell phones interesting yeah rihanna you referred to the kind of dream logic that is going on in a lot of these rooms but

But there is also this uncanny valley of AI imagery and how creepy and unsettling it can be when you see a figure that is supposed to look like a human, but it has too many fingers.

Absolutely.

And it's done in a surprisingly subtle way.

It's not underlining that for you in any way, shape or form.

But you are sitting there like, why am I having the same creeped out, unnerved feeling that I get when I look at bad AI?

Totally.