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The Pod Generation (2023) dir. Sophie Barthes

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The Pod Generation

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The Pod Generation dir. Sophie Barthes (2023)

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Emilia Clarke attending The Sundance Film Festival at the Pod Generation premiere.

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Films Watched in 2023: 86. The Pod Generation (2023) - Dir. Sophie Barthes

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The Pod Generation

directed by Sophie Barthes, 2023

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BABY TO GO | HD Trailer (German)

"Baby to Go" (Originaltitel "The Pod Generation") ist eine Science-Fiction Komödie aus dem Jahr 2023, inszeniert von Sophie Barthes. Die Sozialsatire spielt in einer nahen Zukunft und beleuchtet auf humorvolle Weise das Thema Erziehung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technologie, Natur und Gesellschaft. In den Hauptrollen sind Emilia Clarke und Chiwetel Ejiofor zu sehen.

Rachel (Emilia Clarke) und Alvy (Chiwetel Ejiofor) wohnen in einem hochmodernen Apartment in New York, das in einer nahen Zukunft angesiedelt ist. Technologischer Komfort prägt ihren Alltag, während die Natur zunehmend als störend empfunden wird. Künstliche Intelligenzen mit sanfter, aber bestimmter Stimme organisieren das tägliche Leben und registrieren jede noch so kleine Stimmungsschwankung mit ihrem wachsamen, unsichtbaren Auge. Während Rachel als aufstrebende Managerin in einem Tech-Unternehmen gut in dieser smarten Welt zurechtkommt, kämpft Alvy als Biologe unermüdlich für den Erhalt der Natur, die in dieser technologisierten Welt immer mehr an Bedeutung verliert.

Die Beziehung des Paares wird auf die Probe gestellt, als Rachel einen der begehrten Plätze in einem angesehenen Geburtszentrum erhält. Dort kann ein Baby auf perfekte Weise im Brutkasten, dem sogenannten Pod, heranwachsen, ohne dass Rachel ihre Karriere unterbrechen oder die Strapazen einer Schwangerschaft durchleben muss.

In „Baby To Go“ widmet sich die visionäre Regisseurin Sophie Barthes („Cold Souls“) erneut einer ironisch-dystopischen Zukunftsvision, in der die Vermarktung und Kontrolle des bislang Unvorstellbaren thematisiert wird: die delegierte Schwangerschaft. Mit einer originellen Bildsprache und raffinierter Erzählweise schildert der Film die fesselnde, berührende und oft humorvolle Geschichte einer werdenden Familie. Die Hauptdarsteller Emilia Clarke („Game of Thrones“, „Last Christmas“) und Chiwetel Ejiofor („12 Years a Slave“, „Doctor Strange“-Reihe) brillieren in ihren Rollen und führen uns mit satirischem Charme und überzeugender Leichtigkeit in ein Abenteuer der Zukunft.

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The Pod Generation

The Pod Generation    [trailer]

In a not-so-distant future, tech giant Pegazus offers couples the opportunity to share their pregnancies via detachable artificial wombs or pods. And so begins Rachel and Alvy's wild ride to parenthood in this brave new world.

It's pleasant to look at visually, with an interesting premise and some nice world-building ideas. But overall it's a bit of a bland watch.

If it were possible to do so today, I suspect a lot of couples would use the pod option.

Towards the end I was briefly expecting that the pod might be empty. But that probably would've been too much excitement for this film.

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Spoiler Free The Pod Generation Movie Review!

The Pod Generation is a 2023 science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Sophie Barthes and starring Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Steve Oram. The film is set in a near-future where couples can choose to have their babies gestated in artificial pods. Rachel (Clarke) and Alvy (Ejiofor) are a young couple who decide to go the pod route, but they soon find that it is not as easy as they…

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posting my entries for the Keeper Sexyman

(left to right) Quinlin Sonden, Sandor the Goblin, Timkin Heks, Jurek, Grady Ruewen, William Foster, Durand Redek, Cadfael the Orge, Barth the Reaper (gnome)

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The Pod Generation

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The Pod Generation dir. Sophie Barthes (2023)

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MADAME BOVARY (2014)

dir. sophie barthes

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Welcome back, beloved readers! Things have finally calmed down for me so it’s time to inflict this update on the world. When we last left off, BATSHIT FELINA SMASHED VICTORIA’S URN

-WHY IS IT NOT BROKEN?!?

Because it turned out there’s a cheat to repair urns, HA. In your face!

-I BROKE THAT THING FAIR AND SQUARE

Felina seriously, GO TO HELL. I freaked out thinking I’d have to either quit without saving (hadn’t saved since before SUGAR DIED) or I’d have to deal with Victoria’s missing character file. You’re not allowed anywhere near the mausoleum again! 

-THAT’S FINE, I’LL JUST TRAP MYSELF IN THIS WALL UNTIL I DIE AND THEN YOU’LL BE SORRY

Bruh. I’ve had enough of this house, between the walls of death..

..the eternal yard fire..

..and the fact everyone is afflicted with a gross cold they keep passing around despite the fact I gave them medicine-

-I, a retired Mayor, was clearly the right choice to make medicine.

Well I thought you might do something useful for once, Shajar, but joke’s on me. Point is, it’s time to gtfo..

..to our new gigantic house! Look at all our crap on the lawn, and yes, I’m referring to the sims. 

I unpaused for 1 second to check something and Barf and Failina (Barflina?) have re-become enemies?? Did you stop being enemies at some point because I completely missed it. 

-We did but new house, new us!

It’s done! I went all out on this house for no discernible reason, let me give you the grand tour:

First floor! Man this house is a nightmare. 

Foyer! 

Luxurious pet room!

Kitchen!

Dining room!

Gambling room Library!

And living room!

Moving on to the second floor, Cyn and Sophie/Shajar’s bedrooms I kept the basically same as in the last house. The unfinished bedroom is Sugar and Sandy’s for reasons that will be explained shortly. 

I really feel I made this house too nice for the Unions but what can you do. 

Felina and Barth’s rooms in their ~signature colors~

And Liz and Sophito’s bedroom which is clearly all Liz.

Finally, on the little rooms on the third floor are the music room that @microscotch​ decorated❤️, and a lame room where we keep all our career rewards!

The mausoleum, which is unchanged other than I moved the pet graves in it and put them under each generation..

..and this is the yard! I kept it pretty much the same except larger-

-and I added a lake! We’re all done, time to unpause and enjoy long, safe lives in our new house..

OMG WTF

-YOU CAN’T ADD A FLAMETHROWER IN THE MIDDLE OF A FOUNTAIN, MORON -EVERYONE KNOWS WATER CATCHES FIRE 

BRO. When I tell you guys the entire family almost perished in a FOUNTAIN FIRE. Incredibly fitting cause of death. Thankfully the firefighter heroically saved us and all is well! Now I can’t wait to play a billion sims and pets on this gigantic cc-filled lot with no further problems whatsoever!

Alright then! I had a feeling it might come to this, Sugar take Sandy and gtfo.

-I will but be warned, our absence won’t solve anything! 

Ya, it sure DIDN’T. GROSS. Finally I turned off shaders and it went away, ok Sug, you and Sandy can move back in..

..and we can begin the ENDLESS task of getting all the skill points you lost to zombiehood back. And once you’re back at the top of your career and Sandy tops hers you are OUTTA HERE, you hear me???

-Ya ya, how many times are you gonna kick me out and move me back in? Admit it already, you LOVE ME. 

Ok ‘love’ is a strong word-

-YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT ME.

LET’S MOVE ON

It’s our first night in the new house and this is how Sophie and Shajar sleep. 

-Close enough for me. -I’d like another wall between us, actually.

#itsover

-Ah, nothing like that first sip of whiskey before school!

Ya Barth, I’m a little concerned about your aspiration bar.

-Ah, nothing like the first four glasses of whiskey after shcool!

Ya ok, we’re calling the matchmaker this weekend.

Jimbo (the puppy we adopted to mate with Veronica, I don’t remember if I introduced him) grows up and he looks ICONIC

The difference between their necks LOL

It’s Sophito’s birthday and Liz’s is in a few days, so it’s time to get started on their death portraits. What a cheerful gift, Cyn! 

Family reunion! Look at everyone all together, getting along..

..even Gunther came but completely ignored the party and went straight for the ballet bar, which legit made me emo, idk if you guys remember during generation 1 how obsessed he and Daniel were with the ballet bar, awww❤️ Alright, back to the party, go on Soph, blow your candles-

OH FFS

-SCREW YOU, FAILINA, IT’S BEYOND TIME TO HAVE OUR FIRST FIGHT IN THE NEW HOUSE  -AGREED, AND I CAN THINK OF NO BETTER MOMENT THAN THE ONE RIGHT BEFORE OUR FATHER BLOWS HIS CANDLES IN FRONT OF OUR ENTIRE FAMILY

Ok are you done?? Is this over?? Let’s try the cake again, Soph-

-Sorry, it’s time for me to finally reconnect with iVan, huhu!💗 -Awww, I’m so happy for you, grandma Cyn!

-DON’T BE TOO HAPPY, FAILINA -FUCKING BRAT, I HAD MY BACK TURNED

OK YOU KNOW WHAT, FORGET IT

HERE, HE’S GROWN UP. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SOPHITO 

-WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS FAMILY~👻

Ya idk, Victoria, you tell me, it’s your amazing DNA at work. 

-YOU’RE AN EMBARASSMENT, BARTHOLOMEW  -Well that hurts, grandma! 

-Thankfully nothing a drink won’t fix!

Oh my- I’d like to clarify at this point that this goddamn party is still going on-

-when this simultaneous pet and human fight occurs:

It’s Jimbo vs Shinok..

..and Barflina vs human dignity.

-Oh no, babe, I can’t look! -How could this happen, we were such involved parents!!

And at the moment where Barth throws his sister through a window, the matchmaker rewards us with a genie lamp for treading the arduous path of excellence. I don’t know about you, but what I take from this is we are perfect and should never attempt to improve ourselves in any way!