Each one has the soul as he has it.
Mine must be quite dark: the enthroned one - it premiered only a couple of days ago, but now things are like this -
Pixar's
Soul
seems to me a beautiful and cunning way to bring cuqui psychological self-help to the screen.
Aesthetically beautiful but conceptually very dodgy.
I do not dispute that it is a good film (in fact: I do not dispute that it is a masterpiece) but for me
, like
Inside Out
, it transports me too much to the "wanting is power" section of bookstores.
On the other hand, something as irregular as
AMC's
Soulmates
turns me on the inside.
I have already told you: my soul is dark.
Maybe that's why this discreet, anthological series appeals to me more than the ubiquitous Pixar dolls.
The independent
Soulmates
stories
, at the rate of one per episode, are located in the
near future in which a company has developed an infallible test for the detection of soulmates
.
You go, do some tests and, if your better half has also done them (or when they do), they give you their data and yours is the decision to contact to, indeed, discover that you are made for each other (dot com).
Soulmates
travel the corners and meanders of affections, relationships and sex when a mathematical formula dares to limit them
.
Even in a world where all human variables can be calculated, love will always be synonymous with entropy, imperfection, and uncontrollability.
Although this
should perhaps be expressed as a question
: in a world in which all human variables can be calculated, love will always be synonymous with entropy, imperfection and uncontrollability?
Would it be better if all that could be computerized rationalized?
The AMC series is unresponsive, it simply offers examples.
The machine never fails, the person almost always.
The common starting point for
Soulmates
leads to very different short stories.
They all pivot between the inevitable existential drama and a bitter neo-romantic comedy
that if it did not have such an arid base (I insist: the test is always correct, that is not touched) could be more fun and less disturbing.
Created by William Bridges and Brett Goldstein, Soulmates is
a
Black Mirror
with a unique but powerful premise and
a cast as varied as the results of its different episodes.
Or like the effect those episodes have had on someone very interested in what the series explores.
On someone like me, come on.
Mateo's (Bill Skarsgård) and Jonah's (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) Mexican nocturnal journey leaves me cold, but the destructive rationality of Nikki (Sarah Snook) and Franklin (Kingsley Ben-Adir) breaks me.
And I morbidly enjoy those Adam (Shamier Anderson) and Libby (Laia Costa) playing, as she puts it
, "crack monogamy
.
"
However, I don't like episodes like this one to suddenly rebound when they come across a really wicked dilemma.
It is impossible to watch the Bridges and Goldstein series and not remember
The Entire History of You
,
Be Right Back
or
Hang the DJ
,
the episodes of
Black Mirror
that most and best addressed what happens in a couple when technology offers "something more ".
To the characters of
Soulmates
that "something else" that they sell is so overwhelming that no one is prepared to handle its consequences.
Unlike
Soul
, there is no pretty message in this series that resonates in your clean heart when the opening credits appear.
Rather the complete opposite.
Pixar pretends to teach you how to live,
Soulmates
tells you that you will never know how to do it.
Not even if a computer tells you how and with whom.
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