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In 2021 and its sequel, TWIN CITIES, Clarence Wethern plays a frustrated programmer tasked with creating an AI that can pass the Turing Test. The film, sets its sci-fi elements up as a foundation on which a subtler, more personal story stands. According to filmmaker Dave Ash, the film seeks to ask questions about how the creation of a true artificial intelligence would impact our beliefs, and to examine them through the relationship and arcs of Wethern's character, John, and his love interest, Emily.