{"id":184024,"date":"2021-02-20T18:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-users-review-spectacular-but-self-defeating-doc-on-tech-perils\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T18:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T15:40:26","slug":"watch-users-review-spectacular-but-self-defeating-doc-on-tech-perils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-users-review-spectacular-but-self-defeating-doc-on-tech-perils\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Users&#8217; Review: Spectacular but Self-Defeating Doc on Tech Perils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a358e2406456\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a358e2406456\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-users-review-spectacular-but-self-defeating-doc-on-tech-perils\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Users_Review_Spectacular_but_Self-Defeating_Doc_on_Tech_Perils%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Users&#8217; Review: Spectacular but Self-Defeating Doc on Tech Perils&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-users-review-spectacular-but-self-defeating-doc-on-tech-perils\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Users_Review_Spectacular_but_Self-Defeating_Doc_on_Tech_Perils%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Users&#8217; Review: Spectacular but Self-Defeating Doc on Tech Perils&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Users_Review_Spectacular_but_Self-Defeating_Doc_on_Tech_Perils%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Users&#8217; Review: Spectacular but Self-Defeating Doc on Tech Perils&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Users_Review_Spectacular_but_Self-Defeating_Doc_on_Tech_Perils%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Users&#8217; Review: Spectacular but Self-Defeating Doc on Tech Perils&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        We\u2019ve all been alone inside our heads a lot recently, and the question \u201cwhy am I having weird dreams\u201d has reportedly surged as a Google search over the past year. Natalia Almada\u2019s \u201cUsers,\u201d which won the directing award for U.S. Documentary in Sundance, is perhaps best <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciated as one of those peculiarly vivid dreams. Like them, it is made of uncanny imagery and strange echoey mood. But also like them, it comes apart under the scrutiny of the more logical, waking mind, and dissipates quickly in daylight.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning there\u2019s a baby, being rocked in a mechanical crib. The baby is crying, then quiets, then falls asleep, and as this is an infant not yet capable of artifice or performance, it\u2019s a fascinatingly unfakeable sequence to watch play out in real time. All the while a voice muses at us, apparently from a future far enough away that biological processes like breastfeeding and vaginal childbirth have passed out of the realm of living memory. The voice (Almada\u2019s own), poised in an implacable monotone at exactly the balance point between incredulity, pity and envy, is talking of her distant, anthropological past, but it is our <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That sci-fi concept is arresting, ambitiously placing the viewer in conspiracy with its project of looking at the present tense with future-perfect eyes, reflected in the futurist perfection of Bennett Cerf\u2019s frequently astounding photography. The contours of landscapes and interiors are so sharp as to be surreal; the world made into an abstract concept by the hyper-clarity of its presentation, and by symmetries so unexpected they need to be perfectly still and smooth just to keep us from getting dizzy.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they\u2019re overheads, looking down from weather-balloon height, or the recurring motif of a child\u2019s face (Almada\u2019s son) caressed by the cold reflected colors of the screen in which he\u2019s engrossed, the pictures remain in this startling, expansive register. But in her voiceover, Almada, who has made one fiction feature but mostly works in documentary form, shuffles through half-formed ideas too randomly to gather these scattered wonders into an identifiable thesis.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the future-person, there are several other perspectives within the guiding monologue track. One, perhaps the closest avatar for Almada herself, is that of a new mother fretting about her role, and nature\u2019s, in her child\u2019s life. Will he love his programmed, coded childrearing devices more than he loves her? Will he \u201cremember the taste of spring water?\u201d Then yet another skein of thought is almost nostalgic about the very tech that causes anxiety elsewhere: the fiber-optic transoceanic cables that carry digital information back and forth across the globe are made to seem almost forlorn because \u201csoon we will forget they\u2019re even there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s hypnotic rhythms can become soporific at times. It doesn\u2019t help that so many of its spoken arguments are phrased as questions the speaker is uninterested in answering or further investigating. Indeed, much of the speech appears formulated to take advantage of the fact there can be no reply.<\/p>\n<p>When she ponders, \u201cDid Henry Ford know that his invention would one day remake the world?\u201d over a shot of a highway bridge, it seems we ought to be struck anew by how very far we\u2019ve come since the Model T. But if Almada\u2019s attention im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely drifts away, yours might not, and when you think into that question, well, Ford wasn\u2019t known for the modesty of his ambitions. It\u2019s likely that his more expansive visions did include something like our modern highway reality, if not something worse \u2014 an interpretation inconvenient to the ministry of vaguely catastrophist technophobia that \u201cUsers\u201d preaches.<\/p>\n<p>Such diffuse, sometimes contradictory ideas sit at odds with the definitive clarity and beauty of the images, and also the scintillating, Sabatier edge of Dave Cerf\u2019s glimmering soundscapes, including a score performed by the Kronos Quartet. If \u201cUsers\u201d were a \u201cKoyaanisqatsi\u201d-type experiment or a Nikolaus Geyrhalter film, presented without verbal commentary, its exceptional technique might actually bring us to the opposite conclusion to the doomy one Almada loosely draws.<\/p>\n<p>In a vertical farm, we frictionlessly ascend the endless stacks of seedling trays laid out beneath buzzing lights. Stunning, high-definition waves crest and break in the slowest of slow motion. And one almost literally breathtaking sequence winds us deep into a forest fire, into a landscape of livid earth and flaming branches, where the toxicity of the air would surely make raw human visitation impossible \u2014 the camera like a Mars rover, transmitting from a hostile environment. That these marvels can be created only through the intervention of RED cameras, precision-programmable drones, digitization and Dolby Atmos becomes, unexpectedly and unintentionally, an eloquent argument for embracing cutting-edge tech, whatever idle, dreamy unease it may inspire.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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