“Did he ever want to be human?”
“human” here is a replaceable word, it ban be “white” or “male” or “Anglo-Saxon” or “non-Asian” or “non-Chinese”.
Bio-science and artificial intelligence are no more than a brilliant metaphor: they represent the marginalized community, whose existence were not even recognized by the centralized Western Anglo-Saxon male Caucasian who has cultural capital, such as the protagonist.
But as Yang says, “there is no something without nothing”, the overlooked existence of “nothing” is to be seen.
A beautiful, serene film
