{"id":12037,"date":"2023-10-30T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/blank-review-author-held-hostage-by-ai-as-near-future-thriller-enters-misery-territory\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:38:12","slug":"blank-review-author-held-hostage-by-ai-as-near-future-thriller-enters-misery-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/blank-review-author-held-hostage-by-ai-as-near-future-thriller-enters-misery-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Blank review \u2013 author held hostage by AI as near-future thriller enters Misery territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s some inspired direction as Misery meets Ex Machina in this sci-fi psychological thriller <\/p>\n

In what has the distinctively zoned-out vibe of another lockdown-born project, Natalie Kennedy\u2019s sci-fi psychological thriller sees Clare Rivers (Rachel Shelley), an author with writer\u2019s block, sign up for a deluxe writing retreat operated entirely by AI. Sealed hermetically into her unit by a virus that corrupts the system, she can\u2019t leave until she has produced a book, making Blank play out like Misery and Ex Machina spliced.<\/p>\n

Taking place in a near future where writing is all holographic word processors and genial AI assistants rather than tattered notebooks and half-eaten Twixes, the profession seems to have moved on. Or perhaps not: Clare\u2019s blockage is aggravated by being locked in with only a malfunctioning amnesiac android called Rita (Heida Reed) for company. Reset every day and refusing to open the external doors until Clare has delivered the goods, in the face of the writer\u2019s exasperation Rita can only passive-aggressively reel off: \u201cYou seem distressed. Maybe you should have a lie down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThere\u2019s some inspired direction as Misery meets Ex Machina in this sci-fi psychological thriller
\nIn what has the distinctively zoned-out vibe of another lockdown-born project, Natalie Kennedy\u2019s sci-fi psychological thriller sees Clare Rivers (Rachel Shelley), an author with writer\u2019s block, sign up for a deluxe writing retreat operated entirely by AI. Sealed hermetically into her unit by a virus that corrupts the system, she can\u2019t leave until she has produced a book, making Blank play out like Misery and Ex Machina spliced.
\nTaking place in a near future where writing is all holographic word processors and genial AI assistants rather than tattered notebooks and half-eaten Twixes, the profession seems to have moved on. Or perhaps not: Clare\u2019s blockage is aggravated by being locked in with only a malfunctioning amnesiac android called Rita (Heida Reed) for company. Reset every day and refusing to open the external doors until Clare has delivered the goods, in the face of the writer\u2019s exasperation Rita can only passive-aggressively reel off: \u201cYou seem distressed. Maybe you should have a lie down.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s some inspired direction as Misery meets Ex Machina in this sci-fi psychological thriller In what has the distinctively zoned-out vibe of another lockdown-born project, Natalie Kennedy\u2019s sci-fi psychological thriller sees Clare Rivers (Rachel Shelley), an author with writer\u2019s block, sign up for a deluxe writing retreat operated entirely by AI. Sealed hermetically into her …<\/p>\n

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