DRACULA’S FASCINATIONS: VAMPIRES IN THE AGE OF AI Daniel Schwartz on Radu Jude’s “Dracula”
Although the figure of Dracula is so enduring as to be practically timeless, the image of a seductive but blood-sucking revenant seems more timely than ever at a moment when large language models and text-to-image technologies are increasingly draining cultural products of their human element. In his new film, Radu Jude turns this metaphor of AI-as-vampire back on itself, with an anthology of crude and anarchic stories that use absurd treatments of the Dracula character to lampoon the idea of AI as a creative tool, all bound together by a meta-narrative about a struggling Transylvanian filmmaker. But while this premise might be promising and the metaphor fitting, Daniel Schwartz argues in his review that the film’s one-dimensional approach to both its central character and the technology it is parodying ultimately make it a missed opportunity.
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