Alex Garland makes smart fiction. It is smart, in the traditions of Asimov, raising eternal questions: what is life, what is consciousness, what is intelligence. Technology in Garland's films is always just a stepping stone to these issues.

"Devs" did not disappoint, after the interesting "Ex Machina" and "Annihilation" Garland made an excellent sci-fi in the mini-series format. The plot develops around a breakthrough in quantum computing. By creating a quantum supercomputer, using the principle of quantum superposition on the scale of the universe, you can see the visualization of any event from the past or look into the future. Who in this case is a person - does they have free will or merciless determinism determines any of our "choices"?

Garland has always been good at ending his films, and Devs is no exception. After the final credits, you sit and think - maybe the fatalists are right, and there is nothing but fate? And all "freedom of choice" is the essence of the illusion of choice. As if the train thought it was deciding where it was going.

I used to think that the worst thing in life is irreversibility. But what really terrifies me is predestination.