Desperate love

Jaylen 2021-10-20 17:22:47

I never knew that a movie about robots could be so jerking and deep.
A good work of art can be analyzed at multiple levels, and this is also true. Whether from the relationship between humans and robots, the relationship between love and being loved, the exclusivity and non-replicability of emotions, or the illusion and reality, the present and the future, the film can be interpreted in depth.
David was destined to only love Monica, and he was destined to never have real happiness in this life. This is not a romance movie, but I was surprised by how it feels. What kind of desperate love is this. This kind of love reminds me of the suffocating sadness and despair of the unrequited lover in countless love tragedies in the world, the suffocating sorrow and despair when the lover is not loved. However, love cannot be begged for, even if the tears run out, even if it is the waiting of a lifetime, even if it is frozen for two thousand years. Finally, thanks to the advanced robots that will dominate the earth in the future, David was able to have a short day of happiness.
In addition, this movie hints at another theme about love-only true friendship and love can exist between similar people. The only person who truly cared and loved David was the "super toy" Teddy bear loyally accompany him from beginning to end, and never abandon it. Of course, later there was also the suave sex robot Joey. Human beings just use him as a tool. A tool for emotional comfort, a tool for profit.
The relationship between humans and robots is another topic worthy of attention. When we watched the movie, we saw David as a real little boy. Although he clearly knows that he is a robot, he empathizes with his joy, anger, sorrow and joy. In other words, we are guided to stand in the position of robots, treating them as human beings. But real human beings have been deliberately vilified and alienated to some extent.
This ingenious position replacement has unexpected effects. Because robots are only artificial intelligence, they come from human hands, can their emotions and existence be taken away by humans? Human beings, as the dominant creatures on this planet for a long time, their feelings and needs are regarded as the only legitimate feelings and needs. But assuming that other creatures have knowledge, is it justified to slaughter them based on human needs?
In the movie, after two thousand years, mankind died out. It is a group of advanced robots that control the earth. They are not made by humans. In the movie, it is said by robots that human beings are great and they have created all kinds of art. However, they eventually became extinct. The only thing that can prove to life the high-tech that humans once possessed is the little robot David who was accidentally frozen. This is a wonderful irony to human civilization.

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence quotes

  • [Joe joins David on his journey to finding the Blue Fairy and why]

    Gigolo Joe: Are you in trouble? Have you run away from someone?

    David: My mommy told me to run away.

    Gigolo Joe: Why did she say that?

    David: I guess... because Henry didn't like me.

    Gigolo Joe: Why was that?

    David: Martin came home.

    Gigolo Joe: And who is he?

    David: Martin is Mommy and Henry's real son. After I find the Blue Fairy, then I can go home. Mommy will love a real boy. The Blue Fairy will make me into one.

  • [Joe tries to convince a group of teenagers to give him and David a lift to Rogue City]

    Gigolo Joe: There are girls your age who are just like me. We are the guiltless pleasures of the lonely human being. You're not gonna get us pregnant or have us to supper with Mommy and Daddy. We work under you, we work on you and we work for you. Man made us better at what we do than was ever humanly possible.

    Gigolo Joe: [Joe turns on a digital image of an attractive lover robot dancing] If you could manage us a lift to Rouge City, all this... and much, much more... can be yours.

    Teen in Van: [the teen quickly nods] Get in.