A Small-Scale Sci-Fi Film That Asks the Genre’s Biggest Question
<em>After Yang</em> takes on an important quandary: the disappearing boundary between machines and mankind.
begins with a dance. The of Kogonada’s new science-fiction film are an invigorating introduction: a montage of the movie’s entire cast executing a synchronized musical number in groups of four, as part of a virtual competition. The dance moves are rigid, though still delivered with flashes of improvisation, and the entire joyous sequence is the kind more movies could stand to indulge. But it has a thematic purpose as well: The scene begins and ends with a family unit that
