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From @GB.
Korean Movie: Wonderland (2024)
Genre: Artificial Intelligence, Coma, Drama, Sci-fiDescription: Wonderland is a simulated universe where people can reunite with loved ones with whom they can no longer interact with in the real world. Jung Yu Mi and Choi Woo Shik`s characters will control all events that occur within this simulated reality.
Suzy and Park Bo Gum play a young couple. When Park Bo Gum’s character falls into a coma, Suzy`s character will request to meet him in Wonderland.
Gong Yoo, a husband in his 40s, dearly misses his late wife, Tang Wei, as does his child who cannot forget their mother. Gong Yoo`s character requests a reunion in Wonderland.
(Source: Soompi)
Duration: 1 hr. 53 min.
Platform: Netflix
Choi Woo Shik, Park Bo Gum, and Gong Yoo in one movie? What are we waiting for?
Let’s enjoy the show.
Thanks @pkml3! I read a different version of the synopsis in MDL and found that it could be the other way around … Gong Yoo (playing only a supporting role) is the one who is deceased and his wife is the one who wants to visit Wonderland. Anyway, we’ll see.
Now to get my eyes on this movie!!! 👁️👁️
I read that Netflix has contracted to stream it internationally, but we may have to wait a bit since this film just opened in theaters in South Korea.
Yes, I can’t find it anywhere on my small screen. I hope that Netflix or Viki pick it up. I will like watching some favourite actors together.
The movie is still unsubbed but I managed to watch the first 20 minutes of it and understand most of it. It started with English, then a bit of Chinese and most of it of course is in Korean.
While over screens of various sizes reality connects with virtual reality/AI, truth and deception taking place in reality also connect. Which is more false? Which lie is more forgivable: lying to oneself or to others?
I anticipate warmth and pain and healing…
Oh, Gong Yoo appeared already and he does look good. 🙂
FYI, Wonderland is already on Netflix!
I was able to watch it while waiting for Olympics prime time but I snoozed in the middle and had to rewind the parts I missed. LOL!
Spoiler alert:
It’s actually an interesting use of AI – to have an avatar of a legally dead person or legally in coma who can communicate with live people who avail of this service from Wonderland (there’s an app for that!). The caveat is these avatars cannot know they are already dead. This avatar lives some kind of a life with a storyline, with voice and appearance based on photos and videos that are digitally compiled and with AI melding it all together. Tang Mei chose to be an archeologist since her daughter wanted to be one and she is supposed to be working at an excavation site. Her death was not disclosed to her daughter, who is being taken cared of by the grandma. Suzy used the service because PBG is in a coma – she chose an astronaut in ISS as his avatar since she felt like he is so far away.
In some of the stories, there is lying involved as @GB mentioned (lying to self or others) but there was also a case of a dying person who wanted his version of heaven to be like a literal paradise (Hawaii) – I like the twist of this client with one of the system creators.
Conflict and complications happen when the daughter wants to see the mom and went missing; when Suzy got used to AI version and found him to be more comforting and less bothersome than having the real person with you (PBG woke up from coma and seemed to be a different person). Ottoke?
I still have not decided if this app is possible, will I do it? Would I want one more video call conversation with my loved ones in an interactive way? They may look and sound the same but they are not same people. Or is it similar to watching old videos or photos of our dearly departed but in a level-up way with AI? I don’t know…
💐 @Janey, thanks for the information about this film. As to the idea of the use of avatars, grief works in strange ways and for some this could be comforting. But it’s all a lie, as you said, and would delay the survivors from coming to terms with reality, if indeed they must. I can see this working to comfort someone who has dementia or is terminally ill, for example, and who won’t ever really need to face the reality of death for a loved one. But for someone cognizant, it’s pitiable to think that AI makes a better companion than a human. What human is perfect?
I will watch it if it’s available here in the UK.
You’re right, @Fern that this maybe more applicable for people with dementia as reality becomes a blur and memory is almost gone. Sharing this NYT Modern Love essay of a person actually this. And I concur with her conclusion in the end.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/style/modern-love-ai-our-last-impossible-conversation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE4.n8E7.2N8VcBObPVDC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb