The film is based on the eponymous New York Times bestseller by Kazuo Ishiguro and follows the story of Klara (Ortega), a robot designed to prevent loneliness. A mother (Adams) buys the robot for her daughter Josie (Mia Tharia), a girl who suffers from a mysterious illness.
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Jenna looks pretty.😭
why did they turn this beautiful book into a weird action comedy 😭
I loved this book so much but yeah having some questions on the tone of the movie based on the trailer…
I’ve said this elsewhere but…I’m still going to see it for what it is and take it at face value, but I feel really sad that he’s completely missed the tone of the novel. I’ve read it so many times, and teach a course on it, and listen to the audiobook each year as a result, and this is just….awful?
I’m not one to jump on a hate train ever, but I genuinely feel a little deflated seeing the trailer be so cheesy and silly, when novel Klara is SO much more pensive, and gentle, and contemplative. I guess they’re doing their own thing with it. Bit of a shame and waste of ip.
I’m wondering if this uses any AI in it?
Also, is Taika Waititi still a Zionist?
As someone who read this book I really imagined the robots to look like walle robots lol
I hate the aesthetic of this. It looks like a Wes Anderson movie from 2004. It doesn’t match the tone of the book at all.
Klara feels more like Nona from Nona the Ninth here than book Klara.
I love Taika and I love this cast but not for this movie adaptation. There is a melancholic feel to the book from start to finish which I found most appealing and relatable (as with Never Let Me Go) and Taika seems to have Disney-fied it, missing the whole point of the book.
I’ve been WAITING for this trailer for over a year and THIS is it?? Ugh. This is not the book.
as someone who’s never read the book (but would like to now that i’m aware of it), this looks good? goofy overtone with serious undertones is the impression i’m getting, and it’s reminding me of bicentennial man which had a similarly funny start but a more serious tone by the end. granted, that movie didn’t do very well but it did have a formative effect on my child brain, so i’m very curious about this one.
This was such a weird girl heartbreaking book! None of the images in this trailer match the ones in my head 😭
I wonder when we will get a movie where a robot is actually a robot, and not just… a person made of silicon and metal.
The question is always “Are robots kinda like us? Maybe they have feelings too, and can grow, just as you can.” And the answer is always yes, at least recently.
And like that’s a really useful tool to explore prejudice, dehumanizarion, and social dynamics between first class and second class citizens.
But I also think there’s some danger in humanizing a thing that cannot change their minds, and that is owned by the ruling class, but we don’t really have many stories about that.
This book has been on my TBR for a while now. Would love if someone could give a spoiler-free rec for it! 🙂
I’m so surprised they’re turning this book into a movie tbh. It’s not how I imagined it while reading.
Who keeps letting Taika Waititi do adaptations of somber storylines and turning them into comedies?
I love this book. The first Ishiguro I ever read.
This was not a project for Taika. Shouldn’t have been, anyhow
I read this book last year and the writing style didn’t click with me at all. I wonder if the movie will hit better cause I think I could like the story
Taika Waititi is the wrong director for this story.
As someone who hasn’t read the book it looks fun. I do hate it though when they change the tone of a book I love. Mixed feelings on this because of that.