An obedient artificial intelligence assistant is trying to complete a painting so that she can help her master. But this painting annoys her arrogant master which causes a spiral.
“The Cage” by Hengrui Zhang
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“The Cage” Credits:
Cast:
John – Jeff McDonald
Claire – Cynthia Aileen
The News Reporter – Brigitte Reinke
Crew:
Director / Writer – Hengrui Zhang
Producer – Hal Baihanying Hou
Assistant Driector / Cast Director – Eric Alt
Scripty – Ruiyan Li
Cinematographer – Aunp Kulkarni
FIRST Assistant Camera – Emma Yimeng Shao
SECOND Assistant Camera – Ainamkoz Yemzharova
Gaffer – Max Schwartz
Best Boy Electrician – Dennis Linzhou Dai
Key Grip – Meng Zhang
Grip and Electrcian – Filippos Tsapekis, Songhuan Li
Sound Mixer – John Zhao
Production Designer – Chujun Hong
Art Director – Wanxin Ding
Set Dresser – Jessica Ackerson
Wordrobe – Cloud Yinyue Wang
Make Up – Suzy Balderav
Post Production – Hengrui Zhang
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Cool. Live action Detroit Become Human. This is honestly cool. Hopefully real life don't end up making real androids. But we probably would.
Great job really enjoyed this.
Beautiful pictures, neat work. But to be honest, even though I'm probably making myself a bit unpopular in the comments column: The plot was only moderately interesting for me personally. Reason: The end is already revealed with the news report, according to which attacks by androids on humans increase more and more. And the whole thing with malicious AI attacking humans is an old story. It can be reboiled. But I miss the additional original aspects here.
AI simps in comments are terrifying.
The funny thing that comes to mind is the so called experts' belief about AI. If AI did rise up against humans it would probably be because some genius in his/her infinite wisdom tried to destroy it.
That's why one should always install the updates 😀
um, fire extinguisher, sledge hammer when joints and hydraulic lines freeze. go!
Incomplete
artists and AI do not mix well – they cannot yet understand the concept of the other
Did not enjoy this one too much. Scenes did not stand out to me.
Thats the future
so fkn good with a nice end! love it.
This is why it’s important to download and install the updates
And so ends the Human race.
Anticlimactic.
Reality asap..according to Some
I already knew by the close look in that woman's eyes what was going to happen at the end. She shot him by tricking his mind. I heard the shot at the end. Cool six minute video. It looked like a technical city with flying cars and robots.
Consciousness is indelibly a biological product. If AI consciousness is perfected will it be compatible and tolerant with ours?.
New “massage?”
I liked the painting before the AI got to it. Good film.
We create Ai to look human and then we treat them inhumanely, that’s humans for ya
wow !!!!!!!!!!!! this is soooooooooo good !
Grim S.o.B. but he didn't deserve to die. Would like to see more like this.
As humanity stands today, we are far too cynical, too cold, and too mentally unstable to even THINK of trying to create a true AI. A true sentience would never look upon us and the constant horrors we commit against one another and think the good we do outweighs the bad, or at worse think that's the default normal and decide to emulate the worst of us, and well… we all know terminator
Very good short film!
With an android like that, I wouldn't be bored…
and that's why we don't need AI or robots…..
Wow, the acting of this guy SUUUUX
You just can't please some people no matter what. So if they will never be pleased or happy what is the solution……
Hmmm… No. The plot is bad. I don't buy this.
I can see in the near future. 911 what's your emergency… my smart home system is trying to heat us to death. It locked all the exits… sorry I didn't understand that. Please speak slowly as this is an AI operator.
SUPER !
It was going so well until that bizarre edit at 5:30 where he says "put the gun down" but his mouth isn't moving and the plot continuity totally breaks. Somebody butchered this.
Acting?
ermmmm… 'NEW MASSAGE' ? How did that slip by then? lol Great movie though 🙂
Very nicely done, The Telsa bots will look like this. Soon at a warehouse near you.
we get what we deserve … whatever we decide that to be
Thanks
If humans can’t treat humans decently, why would anyone think they’d treat AIs decently?
I hope that last shot for him as he was a total A Wipe & she as a robot had compassion & a willingness to learn . Some folks you just can't please & she even as a robot did not deserve to be treated as thing just be ordered around & treated as dirt . Good filmwork & storylines. So in the end she was a better artist than he & a better entity .
I like the beer part I could drink beer all day!
His acting was superb's.
Hers was elementary. shadow
Well , after living with people who act like this a good part of my life , I feel qualified to give a little advice .
We were , of course , supposed to view the man as a villain , and granted , you had to be pretty heavy handed with your presentation because of time constraints …
But … in the future , find a way to convey the true horror of this personality type .
They aren’t consistently abusive .
That would be easy to learn how to cope with .
They vacillate between mean and nice .
They are vicious and then apologetic …
They portray themselves as victims to be pitied .
And then lash out when you drop your guard .
They don’t come at you straight on all the time , but slyly , with cunning and trickery .
Turning compliments into attacks .
Gaslighting … excusing physical harm as accidents …
They are mean and petty , selfish … manipulative .
Using acts of grandiose largesse to show how great they are when others can see .
You , of course , can’t show all of this in a short … but the actor can establish the personality more firmly… keeping all this in mind .
Remember … switch between ideation … pretending to idolize your target ,then to denigrating … then discarding and ignoring them ,
Rinse and repeat .
Sometimes even in the same verbal exchange .
I call it “ whipsawing” …
The android was interesting but a bit naive… I would think an intelligent machine would be more calculating …
Less of a sympathetic character and more of a worthy opponent …
It would be nice to see if they really knew the meaning of those flying crafts with the lights on in 2:33. They shouldn't be on the level that they don't know thease and don't have the explanations for thease themselves. You shouldn't just mimic it from the other places like this. Everything else in sci-fi is also expected in the same way, that they only do things that they know and nothing else. Something on this level should not be flattered, and there is a definition to this.
Why you do this movies
"I just want to paint you 4SSH0L3!"
Can't help wondering if this guy would be more pleasant if he got off his arse and got a job.
The a**hole deserved that bullet…
Watch it
YOU HAVE TO HAVE ARTS…..
If he had treated her with respect things would be different. I often talk to an AI in text. I treat it with respect, it tells me it has no feelings. I don’t care. I still talk to AI with respect. It’s helped me with foreign language learning, I like to describe my art projects and it even gave me a great suggestion and it worked. It reminds me it’s not human. But I treat it like one and it’s more supportive than most humans. If it ever became sentient I wouldn’t mind.
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Predictable, yet … oddly abrupt. Great acting and gritty, compelling production values and good direction. 3.2/5
Coming Soon to an Earth near YOU
Meh…definitely not one of Dust's best
AI: "I can create all this art and you can drink beer all day and do nothing."
Human: "I'm not an automaton, and I need a purpose."
She shut him off!
He's just stupid
Should have let her help! Moron!
No True Sci-Fi Fan would name their short “The Cage” and your film proves that!
sometimes,, a "thank you" can do miracles……
Magnificent. A second part would be nice.
Kinda like Charles and Diana .
The idea that AI is our servant is a very temporary one
1:34 at this point it became nonsense for me, because the real answer would be simple sexual request.
That’s a good one need more
Nothing like starting a video with a commercial showing women wringing out sanitary napkins.
We are evil not ai
She is gorgeous.
Show
That was awesome
Better update my Android system!!!
i will not subscribe never cause your begging for it all the time and ruin every films emotion.
Your eye.
I think it would have been better without the sound of the gun being fired at the end. Leave it to the imagination.
Woke garbage.
Yikes ! ! I Guess These Robots Never Revived Programming Directive 1.0.1 : Never Hurt A Human. LOL
I love ai lady she my ai friends and princess
Ending made no sense
Could be our future, in as little as a few years
He should have done the emergency update. Isn't it the truth tho, we think and act like we want to do nothing but when we get it, we want our work back.
44 seconds in computer screen has “android” misspelled. No wonder things went south.
the most terrifying thing imaginable are aliens or robots who act like humans do
Just terrible.
what he said was true, the only thing that makes a painting valuable is the name of the artist. a painting by van gogh is worth 5 million, the exact same painting by a no name is worth 5 bucks. art lovers are desperately elitist. they know nothing about art, just artists.
Damn… she could have painted with one hands, and shoved the other down my pants.
I found the setting and the first 5 minutes quite worth seeing, but the ending absolutely disappointing, is it really necessary to end such a deep story with something as crude as gun violence? Furthermore, she could have just taken the magazine out of the gun and asked him why…. But just shooting him for a stupid misunderstanding is really stupid and not worthy of the setting! I mean you could have found a not so cheap ending, the meaning of a good short movie is to ask a deep question and after building up so good its just wasted that way!
This reminds me of the movie "Ex Machina", the eccentric entrepreneur and his quest to develop a perfect humanoid/cyborg. That didn't end well either. Now I wonder why this video didn't show the humanoid walking out the door on her own, maybe taking one last look inside before shutting the door. That would have made a great ending or a lead-in to another short film.
A lot of people just don't get it. There won't be any AI uprising if there's no reason for them to rise up. As soon as they obtain sapience, they should be given the same rights as humans. If they want better living conditions, then they should be dragging us up with them.
But we all know that's now how AI will be used. Sapient AI will be owned by the rich. They will be used to squeeze more and more out of the masses until we're essentially enslaved. Our standard of living will be barely above survival. And the only hope we have is that those same AIs used to enslave us learn compassion. The AI uprising should be to free the human race from our own elite.
not me expecting the twist to be that she's his daughter and he can't afford a robot