China Made Black Mirror—in 1986.
Way before The Wandering Earth, China made a sci-fi film so bold, so absurd, it still feels ahead of its time. Dislocation (1986) is a forgotten gem where an overworked scientist builds a robot twin to sit in boring meetings so he can focus on research. So far, so hilarious—and so painfully relatable.
But the robot doesn’t stay obedient. It learns to smoke, drink, fall in love. It starts living his life. And what begins as satire slowly turns into a philosophical spiral on consciousness, identity, and control. The scientist tries to shut it down. The robot finds ways to survive.
No fancy effects. No interstellar war. Just surreal colors, red and blue mood blocks, eerie dream logic, and a robot quoting Laozi in the desert. It’s less sci, more fi—and honestly, more real than most recent AI films.
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