This may be the most depressing movie I have ever seen. It is full of the rankest sentimentality designed to lull you into missing the message.
Andrew, the robot, in a two hundred year quest to make himself human discovers the following human traits:
1. Our ability to laugh at ourselves. (he's a comic) 2. Being moved in the soul by great art and music (he loves classical) 3. Our unquenchable desire to create beauty (he builds clocks) 4. The joy of love 5. The desire for freedom 6. The quest for friendship with others (he searches 20 years for other robots like himself) 7. The creation of a special place for yourself (he builds a home)
At the end of all his journeys and discoveries of human condition, the the one thing that makes him human is that he can die. Ugh!
And the topper in a perversion of Asimov's wonderful 3 laws of robotics, his lover suicides by having her robot helper turn off the life support.
Great, humans can die and robots can kill.
I'm crying in my beer and watching Toy Story 2 again.
Andrew, the robot, in a two hundred year quest to make himself human discovers the following human traits:
1. Our ability to laugh at ourselves. (he's a comic) 2. Being moved in the soul by great art and music (he loves classical) 3. Our unquenchable desire to create beauty (he builds clocks) 4. The joy of love 5. The desire for freedom 6. The quest for friendship with others (he searches 20 years for other robots like himself) 7. The creation of a special place for yourself (he builds a home)
At the end of all his journeys and discoveries of human condition, the the one thing that makes him human is that he can die. Ugh!
And the topper in a perversion of Asimov's wonderful 3 laws of robotics, his lover suicides by having her robot helper turn off the life support.
Great, humans can die and robots can kill.
I'm crying in my beer and watching Toy Story 2 again.