Movie
The Game of Life
Tropes in this movie
New Tech Leads to Disaster
mediumJack creates a new AI program 'Babylon' and stakes his finances on it (optimism/adoption), and the technology's failure directly triggers an escalating catastrophe: financial ruin, lost relationship, mental breakdown, and a suicide attempt.
About this trope: A new technology or discovery is introduced and initially celebrated, then reveals hidden dangers that escalate to catastrophe. The arc is: marvel > adoption > warning signs ignored > disaster.
Full plot (spoilers)
Jack Folly is a smart, grumpy, unemployed A.I. programmer. When his girlfriend prods him to start pulling his weight financially, he makes a desperate stock market gamble using his new A.I. program called 'Babylon.' The play backfires catastrophically, costing Jack his money, his relationship, and his sanity. He attempts to take his own life, but that fails as well, and he wakes up in a psych ward where he must piece his life back together. Though hopeless and defeated, Jack slowly begins to connect with other patients and learns of a long-hidden secret that is waiting to change his life forever. The film plays with questions of unreliable narration—whether Jack's perception of events can be trusted, whether everything is as it seems, or whether he has completely lost his grip on reality.
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