In so many ways this movie gets it. Attitude is spot on. Great use of music. Margot is spot on as Harley Quinn. Everything is, in its own way, entirely fair. There are some very cool moments.

While no AIs of any kind appear, the movie is (of course!) about AI, about the idea of a less capable thing attempting to control a more powerful thing that is not aligned to it, and about the ways in which humans are…

"I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does not? Bullocks. Not compared to how people matter." - Chumbawamba

"Minus a million points: Asking the wrong questions." - HPMOR

What was the genius of Leonard Bernstein? How can we be like him? How was he so good at so many things at once? What drove him? What makes good music, or creativity? How can you get summer to sing to you?

The movie has no idea. It claims…

The banality of the banality of evil.

I don't get it. Did you now know? Did someone need to tell you?

I mean, yes, this is how all of this works. All of this really happened. Some people are literal Nazis at actual concentration camps, they work hard at it, and when dealing with the rest of life they act like everyone else. And they do not notice the contradiction, or the irony, even a little bit.

But again, did…

A thought that struck me as I was leaving was that this movie worked because it was actually Japanese. That it really did take place in a different culture, made different judgments, and was not tied to the Hollywood rules and expectations. A chance to observe something close to the real thing. One also had genuine uncertainty about which way things would go. Too often I don't feel like I get that. Also I enjoyed the tension of 'wait is…