Steven Soderbergh’s Kimi Holds a Mirror Up to Seattle

In kimi, Zoë Kravitz stars as Angela, a tech worker living in Seattle whose agoraphobia has been aggravated by the pandemic to the point of being debilitating. Marooned in her stunning loft, with its soaring ceilings and glistening original hardwood, Angela spends her days sifting through audio gathered by an Alexa-esque home assistant device called “Kimi,” and manually resolving any errors the AI has made in interpreting natural language. 

Our inciting incident comes along one day when, after bailing on a food truck date with her Hot Neighbor (he has a name, I think, but for all that his character is actually fleshed out we might as well

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