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The titular villain of  The Avengers: Age of Ultron  believes that humans are so weak and helpless that they must be destroyed for intelligence on Earth to "evolve."  Ultron was created to protect humans, but he judged that the fact that they needed protection meant they weren't worth protecting.  The Avengers, then, must stand up for the worth of humanity.  Ultron comes about from Tony Stark's hubris. Early in the film, he becomes seized with a fear that the Avengers in their current state will be incapable of protecting humanity from future existential threats.  So, he teams up with Bruce Banner and uses the Mind Stone, a powerful item recovered in their heroic efforts, to create Ultron, an artificial intelligence designed to help the Avengers protect humanity. Unfortunately, Ultron betrays Tony Stark and decides to replace the human race with his own race of robotic beings that all share one mind.  While Tony faces his hubris, the other Avengers ...

This film depicts a world of artists.  There are the twins Solange and Delphine, a composer and a dancer respectively. There’s also their mother Yvonne and her lost lover, a music shop owner named Simon Dame (neither of whom knows the other is also in Rochefort). Solange and Delphine long to find their soulmates, but neither of them has met anyone lately and they spend most of their time and energy on their art.  They plan to move to Paris where they can really flourish.  While they prepare, we see that two other artists have recently arrived in Rochefort: a young painter named Maxence, and a renowned American composer named Andy Miller.  The film starts on the day a fair arrives in town and ends when the fair packs up and leaves. The fair brings two more of the film’s main characters into Rochefort: the carnies Bill and Etienne, who quickly befriend Yvonne and encounter Solange and Delphine soon after. The film sets us up to expect roma...