By Hanna Rantala<\/p>\n
LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – In Taika Waititi’s “Klara and the Sun”, which stars Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, a robot delivers lessons on humanity.<\/p>\n
The dystopian \u200cdrama is based on Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 bestseller of the \u200csame name and set in a technologically advanced future, following what one character describes as a third world war \u200btriggered by the abuse of the internet.<\/p>\n
Ortega plays Klara, an outdated model of an Artificial Friend, an android companion whose sell-by date is fast approaching when, to her relief, teenager Josie (Mia Tharia) and her mother (Adams) buy her.<\/p>\n
Programmed to prevent loneliness, Klara is full of quirks and hopes and believes in \u200cthe healing power of the sun. \u2060Her traits come in handy in a household marked by grief and mystery.<\/p>\n
“It felt like a very timely story,” said Ortega at the movie’s \u2060world premiere at the London Film Festival on Thursday. “To see it put in a futuristic world and see that we still struggle with the same things and the answer’s kind of always \u200bin one \u200banother and listening to one another, I thought \u200bit was a really nuanced, thoughtful \u200cway of putting it.”<\/p>\n
Waititi, who directed, co-wrote and produced the movie, was struck by Ishiguro’s allegorical interplay between humans, artificial intelligence and nature.<\/p>\n
“She’s a machine who comes into the world of a broken family and somehow teaches them the importance of being human,” Waititi said.<\/p>\n
“It’s vital right now because we’re now in a moment where we’re maybe on the cusp of losing \u200ccontrol of our relationship with technology,” said Waititi, adding \u200bthat he also wanted the film to “remind people to \u200bput the devices down, not because \u200bthere’s a threat or anything, but just put the thing down because \u200cit’s a distraction, and just be with \u200bthe people you’re with.”<\/p>\n
While \u200bWaititi injected some of his signature humour into the movie, he said he wanted to “keep the profound feeling and the drama from the book”.<\/p>\n
“There’s some funny bits there, \u200bbut it’s probably my most \u200cdramatic film,” Waititi said.<\/p>\n
“Klara and the Sun”, which also stars Natasha Lyonne, Steve \u200bBuscemi, Aran Murphy and Rachel House, will go on release globally from October \u200b21.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Edited by Kate Mayberry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – In Taika Waititi’s “Klara and the Sun”, which stars Jenna…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-647843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}