BUMBLEBEE

BUMBLEBEE. Travis Knight, dir. Christina Hodson (script and story). Michael Bay, one of five credited producers. Steve Spielberg, one of four credited executive producers.[1] USA: Paramount Pictures et al. (production and US distribution), 2018. See IMDb for complexities of production and distribution.[2]

There are interesting instances of the technique of showing various everyday technologies to help locate the action in space (mostly California, in the Bay area) and time (1987); and cars are used with even more stress than usual in a California movie to provide information about characters and their development: notably, by film's end the Transformer Bumblebee has moved upscale from a VW bug.

Still, most relevant for the human/machine interface is a human/machine relationship: between the protagonist Charlie and Bumblebee.