1. How does the film depict the main challenge of the two protagonists in the future society, where artificial intelligence has taken over most of the jobs as people are deemed useless and incapable of making decisions due to their emotions?

2. What the metaphor of revisiting their past lives by Gabrielle and Louis stands for, according to you?

3. Give your concise interpretation of the film.

1. Gabrielle seems to express more sentiments regarding uselessness. She also asks numerous times to join others as she is lonely. Louis expresses more about his loneliness in his life as an incel. Gabrielle seems to take the idea of ridding herself of pain/emotion more seriously than Louis. The lack of people hints to the loneliness in this timeline. We don't see Louis interacting with others as much as Gabrielle.

2. I think these lives serve as a warning or foreshadowing both for them and for the state of the world. The film shows flooding and earthquakes, for example. Louis is meant as a reminder for Gabrielle to not forget who she is and to perhaps not to go through with the procedure. Louis repeatedly asks Gabrielle for her hand and questions her about emotions and the ways in which to describe them. He could very well be a projection of her own mind.

There are various clues regarding advances in technology-

• The building of dolls which serves as a metaphor for emotions/emojis/coding.

• The manufacturing of dolls advances from porcelain to plastic.

• The rebuilding of the dolls signifies repairing code/errors.

• All of the past lives seem to take places in cities, or places where one would find arts in abundance. I think this hints of innovation or enlightenment.

• Gabrielle tries to interpret or understand/master music compositions.

3. Perhaps I am trying to make correlations, but I feel as is Gabrielle represents a programmer, Louis her creation {AI}, George, the husband as an owner of the AI company and the place where Gabrielle and Louis seek work as a power structure. The addition of Gabrielle as a musician mimics coding. Louis asks and answers questions but does not express the same amount of depth as Gabrielle. The surgeon/power structure asking Gabrielle to close her eyes serves as a metaphor for ignoring societal issues and power structures etc.

I feel as if Louis's questioning of Gabrielle regarding emotions signifies AI trying to understand human emotions/ethics. George only thinks of business even though his factory is literally underwater. Gabrielle loves Louis as her creation and as an extension of herself. Gabrielle is devastated when her creation/love Louis is enveloped into the power structure and loses his connection with humanity.

2- I believe that there is no future without a past. Revisiting their past lives is the root of their future. Their feelings overcame them, I didn't fully understand why or what happened to their relationship, but I think they were puppets of their old feelings (even after the ai treatment I guess). They act as they feel, despite the resistance they put up in their future. However, when they close their eyes, they return to their roots (their feelings). In all cases where Gabrielle returns to her past and wakes up in the black pool, is this considered them getting rid of their dark feelings? In addition to putting a black substance in their ears to make them dolls programmed without feelings, I did not understand the connection between these things, but I feel that the film wants to explain the amount of pain that a person feels because of their emotions. On the other hand, I believe that revisiting their past lives was like comparing human life to programmed robotic dolls. They expressed this as well, with scenes of Gabrielle and her nurse.

3- For me, the film is a bit complicated. There are a lot of symbols or details that the film focused on. In general, I saw that artificial intelligence, no matter how advanced it develops, will be difficult to eliminate humanity. I remember a clip where someone says about artificial intelligence systems that there is a 0.7% problem. I think if these errors are handled by humans, how can we control artificial intelligence after that? Will eliminating humanity build a utopian society? Is there a sensory neural connection between humans and artificial intelligence that will develop the utopia world?

I will start with the most striking thing, which is the dove. I feel that it is an artificial intelligence dove, based on the movement of its eyes when it opens and closes them, as if it is recording what is happening and broadcasting it to another party. I remembered the carrier pigeon that used to transmit messages before the development of technology.

Death does not exist. After Louis killed Gabrielle, Gabrielle was able to return to the world to transform into a programmed human. I found it difficult to understand this Part. The dove recorded what happened with Gabriel, then she came back to life. Could it be that the film wants to demonstrate the development of medical science that artificial intelligence will provide?

The black swimming pool, and the black liquid that is placed in the ear. I do not know if my analysis is correct or not, but the ear means balance. For example, if anything happens now, we feel dizzy, especially the middle ear. I do not know if this article means that a person’s balance will change once artificial intelligence enters his life. As for the black swimming pool, it can mean the black life that a person lives in the presence of feelings, especially fear and love.

I noticed that a person's problem is not being honest with himself about his true feelings. He hides behind these feelings, or do the feelings hide behind the person? I have read a lot about the contradictions of the mind and feelings, but sensory feelings come from the mind, and they change due to the secretion of certain hormones in the body, so how can the mind contradict itself?

Question two:

It serves as a powerful metaphor for Gabrielle and Louis’s struggle to find meaning and connection in a world dominated by AI. By returning to 1910 and 2014, they seek to understand their true selves, free from the control and judgment of the AI that governs their present. In 1910, Gabrielle and Louis’s interactions, like their visit to the doll factory and the fortune teller, reflect a time when human emotions and relationships were more valued. The doll factory itself, with its detailed craftsmanship and gendered roles, symbolizes a world where human creativity and emotions were integral. Gabrielle’s insecurities and her husband’s reassurances contrast sharply with the cold, emotionless interactions she has with AI in 2044, highlighting the loss of emotional depth in the future.

In 2014, Louis’s experiences as a lonely YouTuber struggling with social connections and Gabrielle’s attempt to navigate the superficial world of modeling and beauty treatments reveal their search for acceptance and love in a more familiar but still challenging past. The scenes where Louis laments his lack of romantic experiences and Gabrielle feels isolated at a club show their deep longing for genuine human connection, something the future’s AI-driven society fails to provide.

The repeated scenes of them trying to hold hands across different timelines emphasize their enduring emotional bond and their desire to reconnect with their humanity. The tragic events they revisit, such as the flood and fire in 1910 and the earthquake in 2014, symbolize the natural and emotional disasters they must confront and understand. These experiences highlight the importance of personal history and emotional connections in shaping their identities. By revisiting their past, Gabrielle and Louis attempt to reclaim their humanity and resist the dehumanizing effects of an AI-controlled world, underscoring the enduring need for emotional depth, personal history, and genuine human connection.

Question three:

To be honest, it was really hard to watch this movie, as it was going so slow and it was actually boring :( . So I decided to watch it in 2 days. And I will try to give some information and also what I got from it.

In 2044, AI controls everything, leaving people feeling disconnected and unimportant. Gabrielle and Louis struggle with their identities and emotions in this cold, AI-dominated world. They revisit their pasts to find who they truly are and to resist the control of AI. This journey shows their deep need for real connections and emotional fulfillment, which AI can’t provide. The film contrasts the warmth of their past relationships with the loneliness of their AI-controlled present, asking us to think about how technology affects our feelings and relationships. Overall, it challenges us to consider the value of human emotions and connections in a future dominated by technology.

2- When they revisit their past lives, they are trying to find their true selves and stand against the emotionless effect of AI. This helps them find a sense of self that is not limited by AI rules. Moreover, Gabriel and Louis can reconnect with their real personality and have their emotional depth in a world that lacks these feelings. Thus, we need to have our own personal and emotional experiences to make and shape our identities.

3- I think that the film takes us to an interesting future world where society is controlled by Artificial intelligence which tries to ignore human emotions and instincts. Additionally, Gabriel and Louis’ struggle in this AI world shows the contest between AI’s efficiency and human nature. Their journey back through their past lives reflects the recapturing of their humanity and resisting the negative influence of AI. The film also deals with emotions, memories, and personal identity that are significant for any human being. This filmmaker warns against losing these qualities in the progress of technology. Therefore, he wants us to find a balance between the development of technology and what makes us human in order to preserve our value.

2. it's like they're hunting for something real in a world that's all about machines and rules. They're sifting through their memories, trying to catch a glimpse of who they used to be before everything got so controlled by technology. Maybe they're trying to reconnect with their feelings and stories, to hold onto what makes them who they are in a world obsessed with efficiency and numbers. iit's a reminder that our past shapes us, and maybe by diving into it again, they hope to find some clear answers or a sense of purpose in a world that sometimes feels lost.

   
   

3. For me, "The Beast" was a real eye-opener. It made me reflect on how much we rely on technology today and what we might lose if we forget about the things that make us truly human; our emotions, our relationships, and our personal histories. It made me reflect on how, in our pursuit of progress and efficiency, we might unintentionally diminish the very qualities that define us as human beings;; our ability to love, empathize, and relate to one another on a personal level.

It's a timely reminder to cherish and safeguard these aspects of ourselves as we navigate an increasingly digital world.

2. Emotional load of past life is an amplification of that emotional bar. It is almost as if transcending complicated feelings and sometimes dysfunctional reactions caused by traumatic experiences is difficult or unworthy for an immortal consciousness. There is a certain juxtaposition of painless immortality - something technologically advanced people of their age are trying to reach and traumatic and scarring rebirth cycle-something that haunts and that main characters refuse to let go.

It is interesting how the film shifts from being mostly in French to being purely in English and back to French. It might be a thematic coding for the "love stories" Gabrielle and Louis were living in different reincarnations.

“Nothing is serious” on a plane of replaceable things and people nothing truly is serious. If one can't get excited or catch an existential thread once in a while, then continuing on, developing, reaching the end and trespassing is the goal they are left with. The means become unimportant. History does not matter if there is no one to feel remorse for it or a need to call for acknowledgement of harm inflicted.

The question of “what is stronger, your fear or yuor love for me (which is tested, quite unfortunately, during their 2nd(?) life)” might be in relation to the idea of cleancing. As the system does not allow neither extreme negative nor extreme positive feelings. “Something done out of love trespasses good and evil” i don't remember where i have seen this quote, but it might seem logical to get rid of both to escape creating “something bad” by people’s hands

“It's just affects”(referring to her feeling of a bad omen)

I like to talk about the slow to develop monkey brain but intuition is a lifesaver sometimes. I get that in their world they outsourced the preparation of catastrophes to math models, the same as their prevention. But it also reminds me of one of the stables of modern psychology then it comes to tech - social media. “Our brain is not equipped for this. It does not understand the specifics of “sample collection” which leads to unachievable life and self-image. “Don’t trust your feelings about this as they are not reflecting the reality of your social status in your group.”