After Yang
★★★★
After Yang will not be for everyone. It's one of the quietest, most contemplative films that I've seen in sometime. We are so used to our entertainment being loud and in-your-face, that we forget how powerful a film can be when it forces you to look inward.
As AI seems to become more relevant and frightening in a current world, director Kogonada's world where a human-like android, Yang, is living with a family doesn't seem that far off. But instead of using this technology to frighten us, he uses Yang to showcase the beauty of this world. Technology has always been an avenue to make our lives easier, but it is also can cause us to forget to focus on the life around us.
Through beautiful cinematography, understated performances and unique editing, After Yang is a story about not what's ahead but what's in front of us. I'm not someone who does yoga, but it's about the closest film that I've seen correlate to a meditative state.
