In the future where humans and robots peacefully live together, Lia and John, under human-robot intermarriage, prepare for John's first day of work, but the peace is not as simple as it seems.
CAST
Lia - Caprice Ott
John - Andre Gutierrez
Ginny - Jackie Shearn
Bella - Samantha Venable
News Reporter - Randy Taylor
Delivery Man - Jack Weerts
Extras - Lucy Ballinger, Neil Fierro, Camra Godwin, Lauryn Kurniawan, Hadrian Paugnat, Alex Saucedo, Deka Thomas, Shelby Wright
CREW
Writer & Director - Scarlett Sijia Dong
Executive Producer - Sam Sparks
Producer - Eric Plotkin
Producer - Nicole Myung
Line Producer & Associate Producer - Cate Dark
Associate Producer - Andrewtrung Le
Production & Directing Assistants - Margot Kirby, Emily Wickham
Production & PD Assistant - Wesley Loughran
Production Assistants - Tal Israeli, Rahul Sathish
1st AD - Jacob Bright
Storyboard - Darren Penuliar
Script Supervisor - Darren Penuliar
Casting Director - Nisha Andrews
Casting Associates - Lennox Li, Nailah Powell, Cindy Zhang
Director of Photography - Dane Rodriguez
1st AC - Matthis Cadeau
2nd AC - Malia Seow
Gaffer - Tejas Raghuram
Key Grip - Zoraiz Irshad
Best Boy Electric - Chelsea Dai
Best Boy Grip - Aaron Zhu
Production Designer - Kaya Luong
Production Design Assistant - Ayoung Kim
PDA/3D Modeler - Anbu Vajuravel
Costume - Noah Moreno, Alexa Tanasescu
Sound Mixer - E. Perez
Boom Operator - Cindy Zhang
Composer - Nicholas Roberts-Mataric
Editor - Tejas Raghuram
Assistant Editors - Daniel Cheng, Vicky Fann
VFX - Sophie Emma Wells, Anbu Vajuravel
Assistant VFX - Darren Penuliar
Behind the Scenes Director - Sabrina Youn
Marketing Director - Jiwon Lee
Marketing Assistant - Cynthia Robles
good morning it's a special day today we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the intermerce law between humans and robots we've made such great progress now we can see humans and robots together and all in almost every corner on the street our differences in appearance have successfully diminished as well this is surely another step towards greater equality good morning John how are you doing thank you Leah into marriage law huh I still remember the day they announced it we were so excited who w
ould have thought this in the past now robots can think and work and play can't even drink coffee it looks so good in that suit John I can't wait for you to be in an office tomorrow we should go out today for brunch I'll go do my makeup you should really leave the house sometime darling or your niece will get rusty Leah I don't think I'm ready ready for brunch no for work but why I don't think I'm good enough oh is that why you look so down don't worry the tasks are repetitive and simple you wer
e designed for this you'll befriend your own kind as well you're beyond capable [Music] we have different social roles that's it you know that [Music] this has been broken for a while and I have no clue clue but I know you can fix it I'll be right back honey here's your delivery man at least I'm here [Music] all done thank you have a good day thank you John honey what do you think it's nice oh if only you had a larger vocab face it is fixed oh my God already I told you that you can do this see y
ou're so much more capable than I am what now so sorry we couldn't notify you ahead of time we're on our way to the mall we saw your house we figured why not stop by no worries coffee oh no we won't stay long john look who's here it's Danny and Bella last time I saw you you were like an old Tim box now look at you oh Jimmy I'm kidding there's two John so something wonderful happened to me what is it I just got chief operations officer next up will be CEO oh well that's wonderful news I'm so happ
y for you I wish I could get promoted but my boss is so hard to impress the human resources department is always like that by the way they added a new word we no longer say impressed it's now wire changed wire changed yeah you know it's for inclusiveness for I see yeah I also have another performance at the Grand Theater I'm nervous as hell though because have you seen the size of that Auditorium you'll be fine your voice is amazing by the way John here got his first office job it starts tomorro
w congratulations isn't that kind of like rare though like for both of you to be working what well I just think you're not getting the most out of this what do you mean well just say it well okay so my friend Luke is also under the human robot marriage and his wife is like basically everything right like cooking cleaning George laundry like everything and same street for my boss Penny I mean that's kind of like why she bought her husband in the first place what are you talking about are you sayi
ng that John and I we don't live like that we're equals we don't do things like that that's like slavery whoa okay no you're making it sound bad I mean they're helping us that's all I mean that's kind of like why the inner marriage law was created in the first place right that's why their kindness created in the first place besides no like some of them were the ones who decided to do this type of Lifestyle anyways I mean like no offense but pardon me John well I didn't mean to do that John I jus
t want you to know that you don't need anyone else to confirm your worth you're created given life not only because you can help the society the citizens but most importantly because you can create meanings for yourself I love you no matter what others say no matter how different we are [Music] [Music] um you look great honey remember you're going to excel at this job you know what was to take after work right oh I think your co-workers are here there's a lunch spot for you guys but I'm not sure
where I'm so sorry you know you don't have to do this right I mean the quality such a lie [Music] foreign you're back housework the thing was excellent wait really yeah I even got to know some of my co-workers during the break oh that's wonderful I'm so proud of you it's been a long day isn't it it's a strange hour but do you want coffee I'm gonna make coffee I'll pass tell me more about it there wouldn't any difficulties with the tasks those were there everything was good I know you're capable
[Music] oh darling I think something's wrong with my order [Music] the wires are so pumped jammed but it's no big deal good I knew you'd figure it out instantly can you fix it for me darling also you don't need to wear your tracker at this hour [Music] I love you more when you look natural [Music] it is fixed you're the best honey thank you I'll count on your help again next time something goes wrong I've always been telling you humans are much more capable than me robots [Music] laughs [Music]
Comments
Are surprise endings part of film classes at UCLA? Most of the short vids on YouTube have 'em. But anyway so what: this particular one is really good, and really well done. Hilarious (but maybe scary also because they might soon be relevant; hopefully not, but you know how stupid humanity is) intelligent questions about humanity, slavery, originality, love, the how why and way things work . . . Makes me SOOO glad I was born in 1951 and won't be around to have to actually see, that is live with, this (although I'm sure they're probably deepfake-close to it now in Japan). Well done—thank you!
This dude is sad he has a Robot Wife? Wait. What is the "tracker" all about? Oh my. This got dark.