#Latest news with #YourNameMeansDreamWashington Post25-03-2025EntertainmentWashington PostWhen you can't help care for your mom, so you send a robotThe two women on the Theater J stage keep asking one another questions like 'What constitutes humor?' and 'What makes beautiful beautiful?' — because José Rivera's 'Your Name Means Dream,' a dark digital-age comedy aimed at appealing to the appetites of tech junkies and technoskeptics alike, represents another entry in a well-populated genre that reaches back past Spike Jonze's 'Her' all the way to Karel Čapek's 'R.U.R.' — the what-if-robots-could-feel inquiry. And it comes complete with the usual learning-to-walk, learning-to-talk and learning-not-to-irritate-the-human moments.
Washington Post25-03-2025EntertainmentWashington PostWhen you can't help care for your mom, so you send a robotThe two women on the Theater J stage keep asking one another questions like 'What constitutes humor?' and 'What makes beautiful beautiful?' — because José Rivera's 'Your Name Means Dream,' a dark digital-age comedy aimed at appealing to the appetites of tech junkies and technoskeptics alike, represents another entry in a well-populated genre that reaches back past Spike Jonze's 'Her' all the way to Karel Čapek's 'R.U.R.' — the what-if-robots-could-feel inquiry. And it comes complete with the usual learning-to-walk, learning-to-talk and learning-not-to-irritate-the-human moments.