# Cue Mark
> What happens when a person begins to love, trust, depend on, or fear something artificial? These articles examine films, television dramas, anime, and science fiction through the details that make those relationships.

## Entries
- [Reel Log: Her (2013) and Five Beats in a Relationship With a Voice](https://cue-mark.pages.dev/her-2013-five-reel-log-beats/): Her makes an artificial relationship convincing by giving Samantha a distinctive voice, a developing sense of timing, and a place in Theodore's everyday.
- [Double Bill: Electric Dreams (1984) and Her (2013), Two Eras of Loving an Invisible Other](https://cue-mark.pages.dev/electric-dreams-her-two-eras/): Electric Dreams and Her imagine artificial companionship through two different technological environments.
- [Reel Log: Blade Runner 2049 and Five Stages of a Hologram in a Small Apartment](https://cue-mark.pages.dev/blade-runner-2049-joi-apartment/): Blade Runner 2049 makes Joi feel like a companion by placing a carefully constructed holographic performance inside K's cramped apartment.
- [Seat for the Witness: The Housemate Who Sees the Human-Robot Relationship in Humans and Real Humans](https://cue-mark.pages.dev/housemate-witness-humans-real-humans/): In Humans and Real Humans, the people watching a human-robot relationship often reveal its tensions before the people inside it can acknowledge them.
- [Black Mirror's Be Right Back: The Phone Screen and the Quiet House](https://cue-mark.pages.dev/be-right-back-phone-screen-quiet-house/): Black Mirror's Be Right Back turns a phone into the entrance to an artificial reconstruction of a lost partner, then gradually moves that relationship into.
- [Screen Companions and Real Ones: How Films Portray AI Relationships and Companion Platforms Present Them](https://cue-mark.pages.dev/screen-companions-films-platform-features/): Movies about falling in love with AI usually build relationships through cinematic choices: a distinctive voice, a visible body, a carefully framed interface.

## About
- [About Cue Mark](https://cue-mark.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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