Transcendence (2014 film)
Transcendence is a 2014 science fiction film directed by cinematographer Wally Pfister in his directorial debut, and written by Jack Paglen. The Englishlanguage coproduction stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Cole Hauser and Morgan Freeman. Pfisters usual collaborator, Christopher Nolan, served as executive producer on the project.
Dr. Will Caster Johnny Depp is a scientist who researches the nature of death and sentience, including artificial intelligence. He and his team work to create a sentient computer he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in his words Transcendence. His wife, Evelyn Rebecca Hall, is also a scientist and helps him with his work.Following one of Wills presentations, an antitechnology terrorist group Revolutionary Independence From Technology R.I.F.T. shoots Will with a poloniumlaced bullet and carries out a series of synchronized attacks on A.I. laboratories across the country. Will is given no more than a month to live. In desperation, Evelyn comes up with a plan to upload Wills consciousness into the quantum computer that the project has developed. His best friend and fellow researcher, Max Waters Paul Bettany, questions the wisdom of this choice, reasoning that the uploaded Will would be only an imitation of the real person. Wills consciousness survives his bodys death in this technological form and requests to be connected to the Internet to grow in capability and knowledge. Max refuses to have any part of the experiment. Evelyn demands that Max leave and connects the computer intelligence to the Internet via satellite. ........
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