* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Divorced from its own merits as a film, a lot of the mixed reception it initially got was because of the fact that it's a Daft Punk movie without any Daft Punk music...and it's a Daft Punk movie that's [[LeFilmArtistique an extended dialogue free tone poem about what it means to be human]]. Since the last Daft Punk film ''Anime/Interstella5555'' was a fairly straightforward adaptation of the ''Discovery'' album, it definitely confused a lot of people who were expecting the follow up album ''Human After All'' to get a similar treatment.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The random shot of the vagina-looking structure while they're walking through the desert.
* BrokenBase: Almost everyone who's seen the film agrees that [[LeaveTheCameraRunning it seriously takes its time]], most infamously the extended montage of the main duo silently walking across the desert. Whether this makes it [[SilenceIsGolden more atmospheric]] and emotional or merely boring and [[{{Padding}} padded]] is greatly up to individual interpretation.
* FanNickname: Officially, the two main characters are known as "Hero Robot #1" and "Hero Robot #2", but fans often call the gold one "Guy-bot" and the silver one "Thomas-bot" for convenience's sake.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''The White Room'', the infamous unreleased film by Music/TheKLF: another atmospheric road movie set in the desert created by a secretive European house group. [[https://twitter.com/evan_pincus/status/1364423447619674116 There's a couple scenes in this movie that could be homages...]]
* VindicatedByHistory: While not exactly disliked, the film did get rather mixed reaction. During the film's premiere at Cannes, audience members walked out during the infamous desert hiking sequence, leading to one critic to infamously compare it to ''Film/TheBrownBunny''. Nowadays, it's gained a following on the midnight movie circuit for its SceneryPorn and moody atmosphere. The fact that the ending scene was [[CallBack used by the band to announce their official break-up]] probably cemented the film's reputation as an important part of the band's mythos.
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