Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Creator.
The Creator director Gareth Edwards explains Nirmata’s impact in the film’s central conflict between humans and AI. Starring John David Washington, Edwards’ new original sci-fi film follows an ex-special forces soldier named Joshua who finds himself in possession of a robot child whose existence can turn the tide in the ongoing war between humans and AI. In addition to Washington, The Creator‘s cast includes Gemma Chan as Maya, Joshua’s wife who is eventually revealed to be Nirmata.
In a recent interview with Cinema Daily US, Edwards breaks down how Nirmata fits into the story and the different perspectives on her place in the raging conflict between humanity and AI. Check out Edwards’ full comment below:
“To understand what’s going on, I would say essentially something terrible happened in America and AI got banned and so it’s completely banned in the West. But in Asia there was no such problem so the world is divided in two camps. They carried on developing it until it was near human-like. So there’s this war going on over there — to wipe out AI [in Asia].
“The person everybody’s after is called Nirmata — Public enemy #1 — which is basically a Nepalese word for the creator. From the Western perspective, this is the Osama bin Laden of our story. But from the Asian and AI perspective, this is like God.”
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