Four Parts Almost Human Borrows To Build Its Robots

A touch of this, a dash Dark Angel.

By Brent McKnight | Updated

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Strange Days is chronically overlooked, despite the fact that Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) directed the 1995 film, and James Cameron (Avatar) came up with the story. Itself influenced by Blade Runner—there aren’t many modern sci-fi movies that aren’t—the film explores a world where you can buy other people’s memories, downloaded directly from their cerebral cortex, on the black market, and live vicariously through their eyes. The scenes in Almost Human where Kennex plums his memory, and way that he habitually revisits that last message from an ex, mirror Ralph Fiennes’ Lenny Nero, and his unhealthy obsession with reliving his own past at the expense of his present.


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