Empathy Machines. Can Films Increase Compassion? | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties

Empathy Machines. Can Films Increase Compassion? | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties

Screenwriter Will Tracy is nominated for an Oscar for his script for the film Bugonia, released in theaters last fall. Bugonia follows a disaffected paranoiac named Teddy (Jesse Plemons), who kidnaps Michelle (Emma Stone, also Oscar-nominated). Teddy, gripped with a fanatical mistrust of society at large, has convinced himself that Michelle, the wealthy CEO of an unethical pharmaceutical company, is actually an alien in disguise who plots to des…

Empathy Machines. Can Films Increase Compassion?

Screenwriter Will Tracy is nominated for an Oscar for his script for the film Bugonia, released in theaters last fall. Bugonia follows a disaffected paranoiac named Teddy (Jesse Plemons), who kidnaps Michelle (Emma Stone, also Oscar-nominated). Teddy, gripped with a fanatical mistrust of society at large, has convinced himself that Michelle, the wealthy CEO of an unethical pharmaceutical company, is actually an alien in disguise who plots to des…