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This is a maverick short film, the characters and background shapes are very "simple", the background of the short film is basically constructed with cold geometric figures, but the simple picture successfully carries a huge theme.
At the beginning of the short film, the little girl Emily turns on a strange machine. It turned out that it was a clone of her own clone, "Emily III", who had contacted herself from 227 years later. She told Emily a series of stories that would take place in the future. Each story is philosophical and brain-opening.
The Museum of Modern Art features a special exhibit: cloned children without brains. From the time of his "birth", he was treated as an object for people to see, and never left the exhibition hall. Students line up to visit here, lonely people will come to him to talk about their hearts, people who come to visit him as a sightseeing spot, and people who return to their hometown often come here to say hello to this old friend. In this way, he lived for 72 years. His death did not cause any big waves, but people will always remember him in their hearts.
Emily III worked on the moon, leading a number of advanced autonomous robots on missions. In order to allow the robot to walk around on its own, she implanted special programs for the robot to make them afraid of death and darkness. Later, the mission on the moon was completed, but the transportation cost of these robots was high, and people simply left the robots on the moon. They had no tasks to perform there, so they just kept walking after the light every day and night, and the fear of death and darkness lasted as long as walking, and at the same time they occasionally wrote desperate poems to send to "Emily III".
In addition to these two stories, "Emily III" tells many other stories, which are not long, like a romantic and absurd fable, involving but not limited to the soul in a box, the image of memory, the love with a rock or oil pump, the time travel that may fail... It is not difficult to see that "Tomorrowland" uses the dialogue between the two clones and the prototype that spanned more than two centuries to nest multiple stories, and discussed the ethical issues brought about by the development of science and technology in many ways. A light-hearted animation that looks like a giggle, but is actually serious and profound.