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Marjorie Prime
2017 · Film · 99 min
Directed by Michael Almereyda
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.
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Also see the film Majorie Prime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Prime
The 2017 movie Marjorie Prime with Jon Hamm is about this topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7PtcOLJDco
Check out the movie with Jon Hamm, Marjorie Prime, screenplay by Jordan Harrison. Without spoiling too much, there's a company that can create holographic projections of loved ones which a woman's family gives to her as a gift which is a hologram of her deceased husband, but when he was a young man. The interesting part, narratively, is that while the holograms are near perfect physical recreations, their personalities and memories must be trained by those who knew them, family/friends which raises the question of how we're perceived in fragmentary and contradictory pieces depending on whose doing the training and the amalgamation of a person that's ultimately constructed from these parallax accounts. The writing is actually quite strong and the only scifi aspect is the holograms so I wouldn't say there's much of scifi crutch. I know it's not PKD and there are similar Black Mirror episodes, but I thought the drama itself was robust and displayed the range of Jon Hamm to be someone other than Don Draper.
Also see the film Marjorie Prime.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Prime