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

  • [Professor Hobby asks Mecha, Secretary Sheila, what is love]

    Professor Hobby: Tell me. What is love?

    Secretary: Love is first widening my eyes a little bit... and quickening my breathing a little... and warming my skin and touching my...

    Professor Hobby: And so on. Exactly so. Thank you, Sheila.

    Professor Hobby: [the group claps] But I wasn't referring to sensuality stimulators. The word that I used was 'love.' Love like the love of a child for it's parents. I propose that we build a robot child who can love. A child robot who will genuinely love... the parent, or parents it imprints on... with a love that will never end.

    Supernerd: A child-substitute Mecha?

    Professor Hobby: But a Mecha with a mind, with neuronal feedback. You see, what I'm suggesting is that love will be the key... by which they acquire a kind of subconscious never before achieved. An inner world of metaphor, intuition, a self-motivated reasoning, of dreams.

  • [David talks to the lightly dazed Monica after her resurrection]

    Monica: I must be confused. What day is it?

    David: [David smiles] It is... today.