Conceiving Ada
"One of the Year's 10 Best!" - B. Ruby Rich, San Francisco Bay Guardian
A dramatized biography of Lady Ada Lovelace (Tilda Swinton), daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, and mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers. Ada's story is told through Emmy (Francesca Faridany), a contemporary computer scientist who is researching artificial life. By using her own genetic code. Emmy is able to collapse time and link her world directly to Ada's. Realizing how parallel their lives are, she embarks on the task of "saving" Ada as the lines between the past and present, virtual reality and reality blur in the process.
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Review of Movie Conceiving Ada.
This is a thoroughly stupid product. It tends to show how foolish people who are
'arty-crafty' can be.
The story should be concerned with the life and accomplishment of the daughter of the
renowned English poet, Lord Byron. The movie should show how Augusta Ada Byron
grew to be an inquisitive teenager who was tutored by several tutors, taught herself
geometry whilst young, and progressed from there to become a critical mathematician
who predicted the use of the computer including an observation that a computer could
compose music. Her interest in 'Analytical Engines' (a prelude to the modern computer)
came about as a result of her friendship with Babbage, the originator of the engines.
Ada Byron married and her name became Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace. She
bore three children, drank too much wine, gambled on 'the horses', and died at a young
age after pleasing several lovers.
The movie producer approaches the description of this fascinating woman's life by showing a modern computer specialist who is able to meet Ada in a sort of virtual
world. Somehow a virtual dog appears and occasionally talks to the modern expert.
A mechanical bird flies about, why we do not know.
The movie could have been made extremely interesting had it stayed with the 'life and times' of Ada, to introduce the modern gobbledegook and have a woman who died in
1852 appear on the screen and talk etc. is nonsense.
One star.
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conceiving ada - ricepudding
Review of Movie Conceiving Ada.
This is a thoroughly stupid product. It tends to show how foolish people who are
'arty-crafty' can be.
The story should be concerned with the life and accomplishment of the daughter of the
renowned English ...