The Verge
Death is not the end of life in After Yang’s first trailer
A24
Though the future of writer / director Kogonada’s After Yangis a lush, calm, near-utopia, human life finds a way to engineer its own tragedy in the movie’s first trailer.
Set in a future where it’s become commonplace for people to buy sophisticated androids to take care of their organic children, _After Yang_tells the story of Jake (Colin Farrell), his wife Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith), their adopted daughter Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), and Yang, their “son” charged with watching over his younger sister. Despite all of the time that Yang’s spent with the family acting as both a caregiver and a general assistant, when he begins to malfunction, there’s some disagreement as to what they should do, seemingly because Jake and Kyra aren’t...