This article contains large spoilers for "companion".

Warner Bros. Perhaps the first really great conversation film from 2025 with "companion". Directed by Drew Hancock and produced by the same patients who brought us "barbarian", the story of a woman who realizes that she is actually a robot built to serve him is not only a lot of fun, but leaves spectators with a lot of thinking. Also works as a rather unexpected accompanying piece (no intention) of SCI-Fi Jonze Jonze's 2013 "Nea". While the latter maintains at least some optimism about our future -dominated future, the first is not interested in such promising concepts. It is amazing how much it can change in a decade.

Hancock's film takes place during a weekend holiday with Oshoshek Kwaid that brought its companion Robot Iris (Sophie Thatcher) to get to know his friends better. Things turn into bloody when Iris goes to Heivir. When it is informed that it is a robot, her will to live leading to even more chaos. "The companion", which Chris Evangelista called "the first great film of 2025". It offers a pessimistic view of the future, especially as it relates to humanity's relationship with technology.

Oshosh, right to a white man if he ever was one, he took him for granted iris. He uses it. He pulls out his world frustrations on her in the AF **** up, mentally offensive. He treats her as something, even though she is more or less mercury. In the rapidly evolved future that has promised us generative AI, do the robots offering socializing look all far away? More than that, can people be trusted with such technology?

The film makes it clear that these robots only release the worst instincts of mankind. They are tied to basements. They are used for target practice. It is a pointed comment on the ugliness of mankind. It also suggests that technology will be used to replace the true human connection in the not -so -distant future. It feels inevitable. It is one of those scientific films that feels so close to the reality we treat it is difficult not to look at it in a significant way.

Curring back to "Her", the film to win the Oscar of Jonze takes place in the near future and follows Theodore Tmbli (Aoakin Phoenix), a sweet, quiet man who is recently divorced and lonely. It becomes intrigued by a new, advanced computer operating system that is like Apple Siri on steroids. He soon gets acquainted with his operating system Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), who is extremely human despite being just a voice in his computer. The two eventually hit an incredibly romantic relationship, widespread with many the same joys and releases that the two would have. Also, it naturally carries with it several unique challenges.

Jonze's film could not be different from "companion". Unlike "companion", it's not a horror movie. At the same time, the two films engage with the same concept for the future where human and AI -the association is, more or less, accepted the norm. The view of Jonze is that these relationships, like any relationship, come with good and bad. Theodore is by no means deprived of trouble, but he is not a red flag like a "companion". That's perhaps the biggest difference. Theodore is a man capable of healing a connection, even if he is with a computer, with respect. Oshr is not.

/ /The original review of the film about "Her" called it "a warm, careful vision of the future Loveubeub." Jonze suggests that these roads for socializing can have their place, but that they should in no way be a substitute for true human interaction. They also certainly should not be treated as s *** just because they are not "real" in the traditional sense. It takes more neutral, borders in the hope of viewing what the near future can look like in the technology era that we cannot hope to hope for.

In the years since the release of that film, we have gone through a pandemic, an uprising in the American Capitol, introducing generative tools for AI to the general public and further division into society. That way, "her" almost feels like a possible vision of the future we left.

Not to say obviously here, but "The Enterprise" and "Her" are very different films. However, they feel like making a perfect double feature, offering us people two views in the future that is in some way, shape or form, coming in our way. We can't stop AI. We cannot stop the idea of ​​your companions to become something. What we can do is decide how we want to deal with what is coming. Maybe that It won't be as nightmare as the "Terminator" of Jamesesheims Cameron ", But it begins to feel like you can get DIS.

These films agree that robotic partners are inevitable. A decade ago and a change, Jonze believed that there was a positive (ISH) version of what it could look like. In 2025 That way, The "companion" feels like a close cousin of Gererrard Johnonton's "M3GAN". It is sad to say, through modern eyes, "her" feels like stupid hope. Maybe that's just me.

In any case, these two films feel like talking to each other - an important conversation about it. More than that, it is a reminder that the recording of genres is invaluable to the canon of cinema. Horror and science are more than just cheap excitement. Here's the hope that Hancock's vision is more than a warning story than a predictor about what to come.

The "companion" is now in cinemas.