Movie Classification: 18
Genre: Action / Drama / Science Fiction
Director: Wally Pfister
Starring:
- Johnny Depp (Dr. Will Caster)
- Morgan Freeman (Joseph Tagger)
- Rebecca Hall (Evelyn Caster)
- Kate Mara (Bree)
- Cillian Murphy (Donald Buchanan)
- Cole Hauser (Colonel Stevens)
- Paul Bettany (Max Waters)
- Clifton Collins, Jr. (Martin)
- Cory Hardrict (Joel Edmund)
Running Time: 2 Hours
Released Date: 17th April 2014
Distributor: Nusantara Edaran Filem
Language: English
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Transcendence Synopsis
Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is a scientist motivated by curiosity about the nature of the universe. Being part of a team working to create a sentient computer, he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in his words "Transcendence". His wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), whom he loves deeply, supports his efforts and joins him in their garden around which he has erected copper mesh (effectively creating a Faraday cage) to block electromagnetic radiation. However, the extremist group "Revolutionary Independence From Technology" (R.I.F.T.) has one of their members shoot Will with an irradiated bullet and carry out a series of synchronized attacks on AI laboratories across the country. Will is given no more than a month to live.
In desperation, Evelyn comes up with a plan to upload Will's consciousness into the quantum computer that the project has developed. His best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), also a researcher, questions the wisdom of this choice. Will's consciousness survives his body's death and requests that he will be connected to the Internet to grow in capability and knowledge. Max panics, insisting that the computer intelligence is not Will. Evelyn forces Max to leave and connects the computer intelligence to the Internet via satellite.
Max is almost immediately confronted by Bree (Kate Mara), the leader of R.I.F.T. (Revolutionary Independence From Technology) Max is captured by the terrorists and eventually persuaded to join them. The government is also deeply suspicious of what Will's uploaded persona will do and plans to use the terrorists to take the blame for the government's actions to stop him.
In his virtual form, and with Evelyn's help, Will uses his new-found vast intelligence to build a technological utopia in a remote desert town called Brightwood, where he spearheads the development of groundbreaking new technologies in the fields of medicine, energy, biology and nanotechnology. But even Evelyn begins to grow fearful of Will's motives when he displays the ability to remotely connect to and control people's minds after they have been subjected to his nano-particles.
FBI agent Donald Buchanan (Cillian Murphy), with the help of government scientist Joseph Tagger (Morgan Freeman), prepares to stop the technological singularity from spreading. As Will has spread his influence to all the networked computer technology in the world, R.I.F.T develops a computer virus with the purpose of deleting Will's source code, killing him and, as a necessary side effect, destroying technological civilization. All the characters, Bree, Max, Tagger, Evelyn, and even Will Caster himself, are forced to choose between uploading the virus or risking assimilation into Will's Transcendence, which holds the promise of ending pollution, disease, and human mortality.
When Evelyn goes back to the research center, she is taken aback seeing Will in a newly created organic body identical to his old one. Will welcomes her but is instantly aware that she is carrying the virus and intends to destroy him. The FBI and the activists of R.I.F.T. attack the base with mortars, fatally wounding Evelyn. Will is given the choice between healing Evelyn's body, or protecting her by uploading her mind as she did his, which will also infect him with the virus. After being threatened by Bree to upload the virus or see his friend Max die, Will hesitates. Evelyn tells Will that no one should die for their mistake. Thus, Will chooses to spare the people he loves instead of saving technological civilization. As Will is dying he explains to Evelyn that he did what he did for her: saving the planet was her wish, to learn the secrets of the universe was his. Evelyn then realizes it was Will all along and whatever he did was actually all for her. Then the virus kills both Will and Evelyn, and a global technology collapse and blackout ensues.
Three years later, in Will and Evelyn's garden outside their old home in Berkeley, Max notices that their sunflowers are the only blooming plants within it. Upon closer examination, he notices that a drop of water falling from a sunflower petal instantly cleanses a puddle of oil — and realizes that the Faraday cage has also protected a sample of Will's nano-particles.
Transcendence Movie Review
This movie is talking about artificial intelligence (AI) which is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software, and the branch of computer science that develops machines and software with human-like intelligence. From what I saw in the movie, the technology are changed from days to days. Artificial Intelligence can make the computer that can react like a human being. Dr. Will Caster is tried to do more research towards the artificial intelligence, until he was being attacked by an anti-technology extremists, and his best friends, Max tried to download his mind to the computer. After this Dr. Will Caster can connected to all of the world when her wife, Evelyn put him online. He guides her to run away from the extremists to Brightwood and build Brightwood Data Center at there. In the data center he did a lot of researches, where he can heal the human who is blinded, being shoot and so on. Not only like that, even the plant that want to die also can heal it. This kind of researches make him unstopped until his wife was persuaded by Max (whom helping the extremists) and Max created the virus to destroy Dr. Will Caster. In the end of the story, Evelyn was hurted during the extremists attacked the data centre and Dr. Will Caster uploaded her to the online. Because of the virus, all of them died and no more electricity including internet. That's why the phone, and laptop are become rubbish for people. As a conclusion, the technology are good to the human but don't misused it because we as a human is more intelligent than a computer as the computer are created by human.
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