Adventures in Narrated Reality, Part II -- Artists and Machine Intelligence

To call the film above surreal would be a dramatic understatement. Watching it for the first time, I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing -- actors taking something without any objective meaning, and breathing semantic life into it with their emotion, inflection, and movement. After further consideration, I realized that actors do this all the time. Take any obscure line of Shakespearean dialogue and consider that 99.5% of the audience who hears that line in 2016 would not understand its meaning if they read it in on paper. However, in a play, they do understand it based on its context and the actor's delivery.