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What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

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[Movie] Autómata (2014) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/cyberpunk

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This is different from the video series that was posted earlier. This is a feature-length cyberpunk movie from 2014 that flew under the radar:

I usually post yewtu.be links, but Inviduous server IP addresses are currently being denied by Google. So your experience may be degraded if you don't have an adblock. (Er... I mean "the corpos are attacking cyberspace relays, so plug in your defensive ice, choom!") Anyway, here's the full movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdxL9r3Wx_g

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This is not a "great" movie -- it covers a lot of the same ground as Blade Runner and Asimov. But it's a pretty good movie if you like depictions of cyberpunk worlds.

And it has some of the best-sounding human-android dialogue I've heard in a movie. A lot of shows just make androids sound like humans (Blade Runner, Rebel Moon) or nerdy humans in particular (Data in Star Trek, C3P0). This movie has androids that actually sound like consumer appliances that reason.

[–] Hammerjack 2 points 8 months ago

I really like the parts of this movie in the cyberpunk city, but a good chunk of it takes place in the wasteland and then I start losing interest...

Overall a good movie though!