'The Pod Generation,' starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor, about the future of pregnancy in a tech-obsessed world, is an impressive packaging with little content. Our Sundance2023 review:
In The Pod Generation, written and directed by Sophie Barnes, Rachel and Alvy are a couple that at one point find themselves debating the pros and cons of natural childbirth versus having a baby in a pod. A burgeoning technology near the end of the 21st century has made it so that more well-to-do individuals can have the entire birth process take place in an external pod.
Like Barnes’ 2009 film Cold Souls, The Pod Generation centers around a fascinating technology that doesn’t have the story to back it up. The Womb Center is a company that allows people to customize their birthing experience. They can choose the sex of the child, feed the fetus through an app, choose what types of “flavors” they'll like later in life, and more. The parent can also carry around this baby in an egg, complete with a carrying case and light-up stand.
Meanwhile, the tech side of this story is almost too silly to be taken as a serious threat in our near future. Personal assistants, from desktop AI to computerized therapists, feature a gigantic floating eye that stares at the user, and the idea that the majority of people think virtual trees are just as important as real ones always makes Alvy seem like an old man complaining about how “back in my day.
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