“Ironheart” Review: Sorrow and AI Collision in Ryan Coogler’s Marvel Series

In a surprising event, Marvel’s core Series and Black MirrorThe devastating “Back to Right Back” plot is like anyone Iron Man Movie.

exist Iron Man Frontal, we have an explosive story about an inventor making a high-tech armored suit. exist coreThe inventor was the genius Dominique Thorne, who was originally introduced Black Panther: Wakanda forever. ((Forever Vacada and sinner Director Ryan Coogler also produces core.

Just like Riri built her new suit core Turn Black Mirror. While trying to create a new AI assistant for her armor, Riri unexpectedly creates a look and performance, just like her late best friend, Natalie Washington (Lyric Ross). Conceited memories Black Mirror“Right Back”, one of the sad widows (Hailey Atwell) communicates with the late husband (Domhnall Gleeson’s AI Simulacrum.

But “Right Back” is an absolutely broken TV, core With the help of technique, it has more hope for the description of handling sadness. Although it lacks the close attention and emotional focus of most of the “right back” – both things tend to be lost in six episodes to build new major MCU players – core Still find ways to build a heartfelt, complex relationship between Riri and the best friend she believes she has lost.

Riri’s relationship with her new Ai Natalie is core.

coreThe first sequence is not Riri making suits, nor is it fighting bad guys. It was her hanging out with Natalie and talking about what they wanted from life. For Riri, it became “larger than Jobs. For Natalie, all she wanted was happiness. (Maybe meeting Thor.)

The scene is a sweet clip of the dynamics of Riri and Natalie and position it at the beginning of the premiere core Show host Chinaka Hodge stressed that this friendship will be at the heart of the series. Later in the episode, though, we learn that Natalie died in a driving shooting with Riri’s stepfather, Laroyce Hawkins. Riri witnessed their death and could not do anything. Their losses stimulated her to make suits, which could provide fast safety for people at risk. Yes, armor is a proof of Riri’s brain and the “icon” legacy she hopes to leave behind, but core Implications are also a coping mechanism, a way to prevent Natalie and Gary’s losses from happening again.

The arrival of Ai Natalie (or neuroautonomous technology assistant and laboratory intelligence entity) complicates the entanglement between Riri’s grief and her invention. AI has all Natalie’s behavior and memories. She was as close to Natalie as possible, but was she really Natalie? That’s the problem with Riri fighting throughout the season, especially when she finds herself in contact with Natalie, laughing and quarreling like there’s no time left.

In her case, Natalie doesn’t behave like AI, she’s just programmed to follow commands. She laughed at Riri, postponed to her when she hated the plan, and even got hurt when Riri questioned her existence. Ross is especially heartbreaking in these latter scenes, but in Riri’s more entertaining moments, her joy and energy are infectious.

With this kind of play, core It seems more prepared to simply accept Natalie as an extension of her late self. Compare Black MirrorThe “right backward” is the limitation of using AI to reproduce lost relatives. But the AI ​​in “Right Back” is derived from a limited number of social media posts, and Natalie learns it directly from her memory. Here is the MCU: The gods are real, half of the universe’s population disappears, and come back, and AI can be completely perfect.

top Black Mirror Compare, core It also responds to our current reality. Thanks to advances in AI, people are trying to connect with their deceased relatives using chatbots, such as 2024 Documentary The eternal you. Is this technique a useful tool for facing sadness or just a terrible imitation?

core The ethics behind Natalie are examined through feather-like touches, focusing mainly on the joy, pain and confusion that comes with reconnecting with the lost. Thorne and Ross are electric together, taking on the heavy bets on their relationship with care. Elsewhere, reactions from people close to Riri, such as her mother, Ronnie (Anji White), helped Natalie’s plight to enrich. For Ronnie, it was an opportunity to heal open the wound and start weaving the missing parts of their community together. The more people you come into contact with Natalie, it’s not a coincidence that Riri can rely on someone who helps her during the dark times.

core The crew of Parker “Hood” Robbins and his criminals were introduced.

Anthony Ramos in “The Heart”.
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But Natalie isn’t the only one who spends a lot of time core. Criminal Parker Robbins (Anthony Ramos) is the nickname “Hood” he always wears a mysterious red hooded cape – recruiting Riri to bring some extra high-tech talent to his crew.

Played by Manny Montana, Rupaul’s Resistance Race Superstar Shea Coulée, Talk to meParker’s crew’s Zoe Terakes, Shakira Barrera and Sonia Denis are wise cookies and badass, just as Riri has proven herself to be both Forever Vacada A personal outing with her. The debris and kindness they share bring a casual, fun party feel to every robbery, even if they attack through a firewall with security personnel or hackers.

The overseeing is Ramos’ hood, a charismatic leader who somehow manages to make the red cape look totally stupid. (This helps say that the cape fills him with magical powers.) In the same measure, sinister and charming, there is the potential to be a brilliant new MCU villain. Unfortunately, coreSix episodes don’t give him a real motivation enough for the backstory or motivation. The same is true of the motivation behind every robbery. Hood’s crew discusses how the wealthy they are pursuing hurts the Chicago community, but core Don’t take the time to grow these communities or the problems they face. These are big ideas, and of course they are worth exploring. They just need more time to breathe, that’s not time core Only six episodes can be given.

The same is true for the relationship between Riri and Natalie, sometimes falling in core Reveal for its large kit or villain. But the number of work by Hodge, Thorne and Ross has become a friendship that takes this friendship as a bedrock core It is clear that most of the results are rewarding. The series certainly has quite a lot of armored suit combat and magical chaos, but it’s these meticulously built relationships, and the sadness that affects them, it does.

The first three episodes core Now streaming on Disney+. It premieres at 9 pm ET on September 1.