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"Epicac" updates Vonnegut's story from the dawn of computing--when computers were technical devices that filled entire rooms--to the present day, when our thinking machines are just another home appliance. Ally Sheedy plays a government scientist who becomes the unwitting object of a bizarre love triangle when her colleague begins programming their supercomputer to compose love poems. The original story ended somewhat tragically, but this TV version reaches an all new resolution, one much more suited to our modern e-mail lifestyle.
"Fortitude" is possibly the most fanciful and provoking story of the collection (as well as the only story not taken from the original Welcome to the Monkey House anthology; it was first published as a play). Frank Langella gives a creepy performance as a doctor single-mindedly devoted to keeping his elderly patient alive, despite the fact that almost all of her decaying body has been replaced by a roomful of machines. Instead of savoring her immortality, Sylvia Lovejoy's immobile, disembodied head listens to Mozart, watches soap operas, and schemes for ways to end her miserable existence. --Grant Balfour
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what will computers be able to do?,
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This review is from: Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House, Vol. 2 [VHS] (VHS Tape)
What imagination! What will computers be capable of in the future? What ethical questions will there be? I enjoyed the freshness of these short films - and the wonderings that they inspired.
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