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And, perhaps, this might be compelling to some, but I can guarantee you that those people did not watch Arrival.

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Those same principles don't necessarily apply to this movie, because I thought this was still a decent and well-made movie, but realism means nothing in this movie if you don't use it to create a compelling story. If your video game isn't fun to play, what does it matter that it's realistic? The game sucks. This is all well and good but, and this is something I've always believed for video games, and that is that realism is overrated. Yes, Hasraf Dulull (writer and director) says he wanted to combine realism with sci-fi. They spend close to hour talking and talking and talking and talking and talking before they even get close to the point of sending the synthetics through the wormhole. But, at the same time, I wanted to see the film through to its end so I could give my honest opinion on it, not because I was enthralled by what I was seeing. It's a small, independent film shot on a modest budget and it did quite a lot, stylistically speaking, in spite of its budgetary limitations and that's probably the most impressive thing about this movie. In comparison, however, while I was intrigued, the only reason I stuck with this is to give it a shot. Arrival was an excellent movie that gripped and compelled you from the very start. That, in and of itself, sounds boring to some people but, in my honest opinion, Arrival was anything but. Regardless, Arrival focused on a linguistics expert trying to figure out the alien's language in order to communicate with them. The black spheres hovering above earth have a close eye kept on them by every nation's military, as is to be expected, for this very reason. This movie doesn't have to be this way since Arrival is thematically similar, almost obscenely so, in that the humans in that movie are trying to find a way to communicate with the aliens in order to perceive whether they are friend or foe. It moves way too slowly for my liking and I'm someone that has a lot of patience. I could say that, quite frankly, this really is kind of a boring movie. So far, so good, right? Well, sadly, while I've got to give the movie props for its big ideas and effective usage of its documentary style, this really isn't the most exciting or enticing movie to watch all things considered. This part of the movie takes up a lot of the movie, since the first person picked for this ended up dying when the brain rejected the fusion, causing it to overload, essentially. Long-story short, they've developed this Human 2.0 (as they called it), which fuses human brains with synthetic bodies in order to create stronger 'humans'. So, essentially, transhumanism is in an advanced state in this movie. This would fuck the humans up, so an alternative was proposed by someone in the military. This brings up ethical debates based on the fact that, originally, they wanted to send humans through the wormhole. There's interviews with people high up in the space agency and the movie, essentially, is their attempts to send these robotically-enhanced astronauts through the wormhole to find out what's on the other side. The film is like something you might see on a science channel, like a documentary on the Higgs boson or something. For, you see, the movie is shot like a documentary focusing on this space agency called, creatively enough, the Space Agency trying to figure out what this wormhole that has appeared over earth may mean and what the purpose of these black spheres that have appeared in the sky all over they world may entail. It's science fiction with an emphasis on science. Because, yes, the movie definitely falls into the science fiction territory. Well, see, the latter is not so easy to define. For those of you who have no idea what this movie is about or what genre it fits into.

The Beyond is one of those movies that I have to tip my hat to for being incredibly ambitious and risky. In all seriousness though, I always like to tip my hat toward movies that attempt something different or, at the very least, attempt take narrative risks that, while they may not necessarily pay off, are indicative of actual effort than, say, doing what is easy and the logistics of which requires less work to figure out. Making a movie that's thematically and tonally ambitious is a difficult thing to do, because I've tried many times and failed miserably.