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Aniara an epic science fiction poem6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s like the ship from WALL-E viewed through the prism of Tarkovsky’s Solaris. One of many massive ships used to ferry the remains of the human race (or at least those lucky enough to buy a chance of a new life) from Earth to Mars, the Aniara is essentially a galactic shopping mall. Aniara: En revy om människan i tid och rumtranslated into English as Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space (1963, 1991, and 1999)tells the story of a spaceship that gets thrown off course during an evacuation from toxic radiation on Earth. And when we go, according to this wildly ambitious debut feature from writing and directing team Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, it will be not with a bang but with a mindless plod of consumerism, a flailing grasp for meaning and the occasional space orgy. Aniara (the name comes from an ancient Greek word meaning “despairing”) is based on a 1956 epic poem from the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson and explores the end of humanity in capsule form. From the country that gave us Greta Thunberg comes a staggering sci-fi eco parable set on a transport ship from a scorched Earth to a dormitory settlement on Mars. Aniara posits a third option: the unredeemable awfulness of humanity drives an artificial intelligence to suicide. M ost predictions about the future of artificial intelligence suggest two possibilities: AI will either make us immortal or it will hasten our extinction. ![]()
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