After Yang

Film details

Film TitleAfter Yang
Suitability
Genre
Length101mins
Year2022
CountryUnited States
DirectorKogonada
ActorsColin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja
LanguageEnglish
Showings

In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYIQWua8f40

After Yang moves slowly and quietly and then comes in like a tidal wave, exploring grief and love and memory with aching poignance.

At the end, you may feel you’ve just seen a movie that somehow holds elusive answers to some of the bigger questions in life, even though nothing is spelled out too broadly.

Check the cynicism for a second, however, and you start to realize that the main question here is not, “What does it mean to be human?” or “Do androids dream of electronic afterlives?” but “Why, exactly, am I crying so hard?”

After Yang is a small-scale but impressive science fiction, concerned with the genre’s most important question: As technology spreads wider and deeper into our lives, what does it mean to be human?