I'm no computer whiz myself, and I can see a lot of errors and implausibilities in this movie. But at the same time, am amazed how easier it is now to edit, animate, have a speech synthesizer all aboard a modest laptop and be able to put something up on YouTube in a very short time. And though Al Pacino and all are great, the stars of the movie are the everyday people that fall for this 'Simone'. Nothing against Madonna, but there was a point where she was almost a global goddess. And were we to find out she wasn't real - who knows what would've happened? The movie simplifies things to such an extent on how easy it is to manipulate this moving image of Simone into movies, TV, and on stage. Yet there is some subtle special effects that do make it believable. The movie moves at such a fast pace, it expects the audience to keep up with it. And if you blink, you may not know why there's another movie all of a sudden, or why she's in 3rd world countries doing charity work all of a sudden. But again, not too far different from the schedules of Madonna or Brittany Spears et al. And much like Wag The Dog, I think it's the ending of this movie that has the strongest impact. Whether right or wrong, how far could it go? So if one's willing to let go and accept what this movies trying to convey in it's short time frame, I think they'll be impressed. If ones looking for Ex Machina or Terminator 2 et al. They'll be throwing popcorn at the screen in the first 10min.
Review of S1m0ne
