After a few years, watching this film again, I have a new idea: human, when you face a robot that can love, are you ready?
As one of the first "loving" robots to be developed, David is the protagonist of the film. In a previous workshop, David's maker, Professor Harpy, was asked: If the robot can really love a human being, what is the responsibility of the human to the robot?
And then again: This is a moral question, right?
Professor: The oldest one. But in Genesis, didn't God also create Adam to love him?
Although the professor answered the questioner and used the analogy of God creating man, in fact he did not answer the question, he could not answer it.
Because he is not ready.
He has the ability to create a robot that can love, which is a technical question; but there is no way to answer that question, which is an ethical question.
David's "mom" Monica wasn't ready either. She adopted him (actually after signing a trial agreement with the company), and then read a series of instructions to activate one of David's key programs (the one that would love), which was burned in David's The hardware is never lost unless David is sent back to the factory for destruction.
Monica, who lost her beloved son (who was frozen because of a serious illness), has a son named David, her mother, and they are happy together. But the honeymoon period was not long, and Monica's biological son, Martin, woke up and recovered.
The two sons are naturally jealous of each other, especially Martin, who sees David as just a super toy. After a series of incidents, Monica couldn't take it anymore and felt that keeping David by her side was a threat to Martin and her family. At this time, she should have sent David back to the factory for destruction according to the agreement, but she relented and chose to drive to the suburbs to dump David in the wilderness.
Back to that question, responsibility.
Is Monica responsible for David?
Ask yourself: Is David a real person? No, so Monica is not responsible for him.
Another question: Are David's feelings for Monica real? If the answer is yes, then Monica betrayed a true feeling; if the answer is no, then Monica is not responsible.
Throughout the whole film, it is not difficult to see that the director wants to say that David's love for Monica is real (although it is from a machine) and that Monica should be responsible for David.
The director arranged for Monica to abandon David, and let David further express his love for Monica. And Monica, obviously, no longer deserves David's love. However, Monica is not condemned by the audience. Because she, like Professor Harpy, was not ready.
Could it be that his biological son really couldn't get along with David? Human technology is so advanced that it can't even solve this problem? Martin and David have been together for a long time, maybe there will be brotherhood budding, why not give them time?
Lack of mental preparation.
David is looking for the blue fairy who can turn himself into a real person. He doesn't know, it's just a fairy tale. Until later... the
earth was completely frozen, and human beings have long disappeared, but David still thinks of his mother Monica!
In the end, David, with the help of a group of alien intelligent creatures, resurrected Monica (which can only exist for one day) and relived his old dreams - even in a sci-fi movie, this ending is fake enough.
So, I think the director spared no effort to show David's eternal love for Monica in this film, but he didn't tell us how to end this love, especially, this is a true love.
David was created without preparation (Professor Hubby gave him the body, Monica gave him the emotion), but no one was responsible for him in the end, and what accompanied him to the end was actually a man-made product— — Teddy Bear.
In the past, I thought the ending of this film was bright, but now it seems that it is very depressing.
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