‘Love Insurance Kompany’ review: Pradeep Ranganathan on algorithm-driven love
Pradeep Ranganathan questions algorithm-based love in ‘Love Insurance Kompany’
The concept of ensuring love as a starting point for a Tamil film is too uncommon to see in multiple Tamil movies.
The film shows how people can choose their partners through a process that resembles health plan enrollment which includes compatibility assessment and future outcome prediction and breakup settlement arrangement.
Love Insurance Kompany (LIK) accomplishes this mission by maintaining a human quality throughout its two and a half hour runtime.
People use technology today because it controls every aspect of their daily activities. The advanced application developed by Love Insurance Kompany (LIK) analyzes your personality information to find your perfect match and provides a reliable prediction of your romantic future. The algorithm functions as the ultimate truth which people must accept without question.
Vibe Vaasey enters the scene when Pradeep Ranganathan portrays him as a young man from the Organic World community which forbids phone use and treats digital dependency as an illness that requires treatment.
Vaasey now works for the very company whose philosophy sits opposite to everything he was raised to believe. He works as the voice system of the LIK application. He is the algorithm that tells people who to love. He then falls for someone the algorithm tells him is the wrong person entirely.
Vignesh Shivan who wrote and directed the film presents a complex answer to that question which he does not treat as a simple solution. The solution to the problem becomes evident to him after he studies the situation and lets his characters discover it through their challenging experiences.