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companion Allan tell me the story of
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companion all the story of companion uh
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okay so if you've not seen the
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trailer stop you right there do not
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watch the trailer yeah don't watch the
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trailer do not watch the trailer and
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we're probably gonna spoil it this
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review unfortunately will have at least
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spoilers from the first third of the
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movie the first third because they are
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ruined in the trailer the trailer ruins
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this movie A friend of mine saw this
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months ago at a preview screening he
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didn't know what was going to happen and
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he was shocked and it was great had I
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watched the film not knowing something
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that is revealed in the trailer I think
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I would have enjoyed it more so yeah
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don't watch the trailer but we are going
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to spoil first third but all of that is
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in the trailer okay continue we can
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spoil it because it's in the okay go go
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Al I I'll go up until the point of the
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spoil and I won't reveal it unless you
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want to talk about but anyway you have
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to it's in the trailer okay companion is
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a story of Iris and Josh played by Jack
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quaade and Sophie Thatcher uh they are
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on a best friend's weekend uh Journey to
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the mountains uh with their best friends
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Patrick H and uh Patrick and Eli uh as
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well as cat and Sergey uh this is
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sergey's house Sergey is kind of a a
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mobster and so he lives out in the
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middle of nowhere has a lot of money um
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while they're while they're having this
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fun weekend uh iris is having some
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issues uh she runs off into the woods uh
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she is followed by sergy uh and he tries
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to press himself upon her and as a
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result she winds up killing him uh he he
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tries to assault her winds up killing
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him but there's a reason he wanted to
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assault her because he felt he had a
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reason to in fact everyone seems to have
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this secret about Iris that Iris doesn't
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know so I I could end it there she
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murders she murders shy and then they
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have to figure out what to do with the
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body and and and the fact that she's
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drenched in his blood yeah so what what
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it is is the companion iris is a robot
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girlfriend which you can purchase which
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are common you can get you can purchase
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a robot girlfriend and or boyfriend and
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you they become uh attached to you and
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there's an app on your phone where
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you're able to dial up their
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intelligence or certain aspects of their
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personality you get to learn how the
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company works you then you there are
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memories implanted in iris of the first
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meeting that uh that she has with uh
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Josh which was a meat cute at a grocery
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store when he has an accident with some
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fruit it's very cute that memory is
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false he bought her and got her to have
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sex with and have a girlfriend
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experience with a robot but then they
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they kind of use her innocence the fact
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that she's a robot to kill Serge Serge
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thinks oh it's just a robot I could but
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all this is kept from you until that
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third now the movie does in the trailer
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reveal this fact that she is effectively
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a fmot sex robot a robot girlfriend
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whatever and she's also a pawn in a
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larger
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plot involving the characters at this
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Lakehouse so I'll leave it there um the
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actress the spoil was at the trailer the
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last trailer before the movie came out
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the last trailer yeah so every trailer I
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seen up to that point uh it it left out
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a mystery and I'm saying that had they
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not produced that last trailer uh I I
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think I would have enjoyed the twist a
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whole lot better than yeah so yeah so
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the actress who plays iris is phenomenal
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Sophie Thatcher she's very sexy she
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plays this role perfectly she was in
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heretic she's also in yellow jackets um
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I love like her I like her a lot she
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also uh played a bit part in Maxine so I
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like this actress the movie works
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because of her Jack Quaid as Josh is an
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a-hole he bought a sex robot to bang and
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to kind of have the experience of having
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a girlfriend you think he's this kind
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person as the movie continues things
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kind of more layers come off about the
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intentions of all the other people in
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this story we're not going to discuss
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those things um I was all in the first
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half of this movie I'm like holy [ __ ]
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when they go into the details of how the
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robot Works how much they cost they you
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know the app and what you can do her she
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finds out she gets contr this is in the
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trailer she she gets the app gets Josh's
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phone and sees that her intelligence is
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at
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40% it's like she he wants kind of a
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dumb girl he dials she dials her own int
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Ence up to 100 so she can do more but um
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so the whole world building of the
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companion
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robot really well done really well done
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and this is from I believe the director
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of the director of Barbarian is one of
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the producers on this movie if that
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makes sense yes um and I really like
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it's a it's lowbudget sci-fi $10 million
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uh was the budget for companion I think
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it's very well done done I'm not going
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to reveal what happens at the end must
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keep that because already the trailer
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I'm pissed the trailer kind of ruins the
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Mystique of this movie I miss I miss
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trailers that gave you a tease and told
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you nothing um the trailer gives away
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too much about the first half um so I
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won't go into events of the second half
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it kind of fell apart for me for a
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couple reasons because it became
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predictable the final third gets a
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little too predict predictable like oh
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they're going to do that all right but I
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was all in for most of the movie I still
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recommend it it's a seven out of 10 for
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me and I like lowbudget sci-fi and it's
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short it's like 97 minutes so um
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ultimately a
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recommend but it's flawed Allan what did
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you think uh okay so the good is I I
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like the interesting ideas and themes
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around a companion robot talk a lot
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about that um my my issue with the film
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is uh I forgot what the name of the film
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that I had the same issue with uh
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similar to this one was she's a
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robot right he's a
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robot okay so so when the robots take
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over they're gonna come after me first I
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I I understand that but I'm Gonna Stand
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by this um we're building sympathy for a
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robot right at the end you know of
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course there's G to be a fight a very
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physical fight and the fact that you
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sympathize with the robot because the
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robot is pretty and cute and a girl uh
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says a lot about this movie and it says
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a lot about what how Hollywood thinks
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about uh I don't know why Hollywood is
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pushing empathy and sympathy for robots
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you know the things that happens to the
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girl would be horrible if she was a girl
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right right
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robot that happens to the girl would be
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if it happened to a girl but she's a
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robot and that's my well the one thing
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is Iris the actress who plays iris is
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great Sophie she's a real person by the
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way yes Sophie she's fantastic like
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everything about her she's sexy but not
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like too much where she's like a you
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know she's just just enough she got girl
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next door and sexy and she sells the the
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right but let's remember she is a real
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person but she I know that she a good
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job robot I mean complimenting her robot
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acting no no she yeah a robot who tries
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to be a real person yes a real person
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can pull that off that's that's very
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good well done but uh the the thing is
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is that when when you see that stuff
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happening on screen when she's getting
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beat up when she
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um you know there's you know the
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filmmakers are trying to manipulate you
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they're making a comment about violence
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toward women no no but it's a violence
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toward a robot and and if the
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robot Rob on
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that it's a comment on violence to I
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understand that should have been a real
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woman look if if the character was a
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real woman I would understand that and
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we don't know she's a robot
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because it's revealed in first First Act
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of the movie no it's not revealed until
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after S no no but when she gets beat up
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and she well we we know it from the
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trailer anyways I'm saying the themes
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are all there if you're looking for it
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and look I still recommend the movie I'm
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saying the last third uh I I feel like
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it it became predictable yeah so what
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what is your what is your look you have
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comments here yeah I'll just end it like
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this look uh it's the issue I have with
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a lot of things in terms of how we treat
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people based on their appearances um
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because the robot is a cute girl we have
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sympathy for her but the robot was an
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ugly alien with laser beams coming out
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of its eyes we'd hate it same with
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animals we love cute looking animals and
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hate ugly looking animals with sharp
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teeth that's you know this is the this
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is the problem I have with all this and
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so yeah no I I'm not recommending the
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movie I'll give it a five out of 10
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because I don't like it's the
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manipulation it's the obvious
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manipulation uh that that I find
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abhorent and I don't like being
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manipulated Allan I I hate to accuse you
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of this you're a hot phobe no I'm I'm a
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Rob Roop phobe you're against Attractive
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people she is very sexy girl next door
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you're a hot
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phobe and I'm calling you
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out and you might be a
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too I no I am not hot phobe I I love
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hot I am a robo phobe I do not I don't
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think robots like I love data but I
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don't robots are not people robots are
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not people they're not worthy of
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sympathy and empathy
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bu
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