About this episode
Colton and Jake discuss the film Summer Wars, exploring its themes and whether it holds up today.
Welcome back to Feasts of Film, once again for Ani-May. This time Cole and Jake are watching the movie Summer Wars. A mathematic genius Kenji Koiso travels to Ueda to celebrate his friend's grandmothers 90th birthday but instead is dragged into a plot by an Artificial Intelligence named that implicates Kenji into the hacking of a virtual world. Kenji ends up having to clear his name and stop the AI's scheme. Jake and Cole will see out this movie's adventure and find out if its worth a watch today or if it doesn't quite stand the test of time.
People in this episode
Host: Colton Burse
Guest: Jake
Topics covered
- anime
- film review
- artificial intelligence
- hacking
- virtual world
- adventure
Keywords
- Summer Wars
- anime
- film review
- Kenji Koiso
- artificial intelligence
- hacking
- virtual world
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Artificial Intelligence
Books & works: Summer Wars
Places: Ueda
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