“Revenge”, “Disclaimer”, “A Devoted Friend” and “Werewolves”

THE MORNING LIST

The series of the week are placed under the sign of lies and pretensions, whether literary (Disclaimer), playful (werewolves), technological (Rematch) or downright psychiatric (a devoted friend).

“Revenge”: Kasparov against Deeper Blue, the chess madman and the IBM pawns

It’s an old story: the victory, in 1997, of the Deeper Blue computer, designed under the auspices of IBM, over one of the best chess players in history, Garry Kasparov. the project of Rematch is to elevate this episode to the rank of turning point in the history of humanity, as the first manifestation of the predominance that artificial intelligence could achieve over its creators. You would have to be both a grandmaster and an engineer at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to judge the validity of the proposition.

What appears on the screen is a series of perfect classicism, using media whose development dates back long before the invention of digital intelligence. To facilitate understanding, the characters will speak in English, even in flashbacks that transport us to Kasparov’s (Christian Cooke) Russian childhood. There will be, on the one hand, a fallible hero (his greatest enemy is the paranoia he retains after years spent on the frontiers of dissidence) and, on the other, an evil multinational, played by the character of Helen Brock (Sarah Bolger). ), an IBM. executive more devoid of affection than Deeper Blue. In the middle is the champion’s mother (Trine Dyrholm) and his new manager. This last role was entrusted to Aidan Quinn, who reprises the character of an ordinary man confronted by the genius he played in Elementary. The method overlays the complexity of the story with the deceptive simplicity of the entertainment without really illuminating the problems of this confrontation. T.S.

“Disclaimer”: two families destroyed by a secret

Behind the camera six years later RomeMexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón takes advantage of the important resources of Apple TV+ and the scale of the serial format to adapt the bestseller of the same name by the American Renée Knight in seven episodes. HE disclaimer It is this warning placed at the beginning of a film, a book or even a series, to break the link between the work and reality. Quite the opposite happens here, where a self-published novel destroys the existence of Catherine, a successful documentary filmmaker, by revealing a secret she has kept under lock and key for twenty years. The revelation then threatens her marriage to Robert, a rich heir, her job as a journalist for which she gives everything, and even the physical and psychological integrity of her drug-addicted son.

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