Being Human

The scouts

Here's the genuinely weird premise everyone else would sanitize into sentimental AI-learns-humanity treacle: two directors let their digital consciousness actually *clash* with its owners, refusing the easy path of heartwarming integration and instead leaning into the absurdist friction of incompatible ontologies. This is the kind of sci-fi comedy that makes people uncomfortable because it won't let them off the hook with sentiment.

Heizer and Diaz-Silverio situate themselves thoughtfully within the lineage of body-horror meet domestic comedy—echoing everything from early Cronenberg's perversions of the intimate space to contemporary absurdist television—and the discipline of their 14-minute structure shows a real understanding of how to compress philosophical unease into formal precision.

The film's entire gravity shifts on a single choice: how they've scored the AI's physical presence and vocal performance to create genuine cognitive dissonance between the familiar (a home assistant) and the uncanny (an actual man occupying that role), which transforms what could've been a sketch premise into something that actually lands the existential vertigo.