Almost a perfect allegory for our times. Consumerism overtakes society and it feels like machines are in control of humans instead of the other way around. The automated scene at the Autofac building had to have been filmed at an Amazon warehouse, but without human stock pickers. In 2020/2021, the pandemic might have done the job that a world war twenty years earlier did in this story; reduce society to a commune of citizens with dwindling resources and dismal prospects for the future. It was almost a let down that Emily turned out to be a G-20 Simulacrum with a statistical aberration in her programming. It meant that there were no humans left in an apocalyptic world to challenge the mighty machines. It was almost like 'We have met the enemy, and he is us'.
Review of Autofac
