It can be said that "Artificial Intelligence" is a story of a pilgrim dressed in a postmodern fairy tale.
The famous fairy tale "Pinocchio" tells the story of a puppet, Pinocchio, who experienced various adventures and adventures. After passing the test of "brave, heartfelt, and honest", he was turned into a real little boy by the blue fairy. The fairy tale "Pinocchio" appeared as a necessary condition in "Artificial Intelligence" and became the film. It is not difficult to see that the three tests that Pinocchio faced in "Pinocchio" can be found in the movie - the brave test, which corresponds to David's plot in the machine slaughterhouse; the heartfelt test, which corresponds to David's The plot of Yandu's search for clues to the Blue Fairy; the test of honesty corresponds to the plot of David's arduous arrival in Manhattan to face another robot, David.
Although David, the robot boy in the movie, did not become a real boy after developing an honest, brave and upright heart like Pinocchio, his everlasting love has been frozen for 2000 years. Failed to get the love of the blue fairy. One day after the year 2000, the last remaining high-level robot on earth gave him the happy day he was loved by Monica. At the end of the day, "David also lay down and went to sleep. And for the first time in his life, he came to the place where all the good dreams came from in his sleep".
Did David become a real little boy at this point? The film does not tell us the answer directly, but gives the viewer a hopeful start. From this perspective, the film "Artificial Intelligence" is indeed a postmodern remake of "Pinocchio".
If the film is analyzed purely from the perspective of fairy tales, what people get is a core of "holding on to the belief in love, and finally making dreams come true". However, I think when watching "Artificial Intelligence", you must taste the part of the script created by Kubrick and the ending added by Spielberg, otherwise it is easy to make people fall into the skin of "love" and cannot extricate themselves—— After all, Spielberg's self-created ending is too warm, weakening the deep thinking and despair in Kubrick's original plot, and the viewer's attention is involuntarily immersed in the tears of "getting love" for the story." The perfect" ending was applauded.
In order to express his inner thinking, Kubrick used lines, characters, symbols and other elements in the film to clearly show that the film is about the relationship between man and God. Every element points out the core question of the film to the viewers like a dragonfly – can we get God’s response when we seek God wholeheartedly?
It can be said that "Artificial Intelligence" without the ending is a work that explores the relationship between man and God.
First, at the beginning of the film, a "doomsday" background is created: "Because of the greenhouse effect, the glaciers in the north and the south have gradually melted over the years, and the sea water has submerged many large cities. Along all the coastal areas in the world, Amsterdam, Venice, New York . . . are all gone."
This is easily reminiscent of the biblical description of the end of the world: "The flood flooded the earth for forty days, and the water grew upward and lifted the ark from the ground. The water was great. and the ark grew up on the earth, and the ark floated up and down on the water. The water was so great on the earth that all the mountains under the sky were submerged. The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains, and the mountains were submerged. The animals, the birds, the livestock, the beasts, and the insects that crawled on the ground, and all men, died; all that had breath in its nostrils on dry ground; The insects and the birds of the air were wiped out from the earth, but Noah and those who were with him in the ark were left. The waters were so great that they were on the earth for a hundred and fifty days.” (The Bible Genesis 7: 17-24)
Second, at the end of the plot at the beginning of the film, Kubrick leaves viewers with a question that runs through the film. I personally think that the question here is not referring to the black woman's "If this robot can really love a human being, what responsibility does the human have to the robot?" but Dr. Harpy's answer: "But in Genesis, God Didn't he also create Adam to love him?"
So, just as God created man, Dr. Harpy created a robot boy with love as the core of the program and with emotional functions, David. This creation was an experiment, and it was a simulation of God creating man—David is the son of man, a symbol of man, and man is David's god.
Third, the plot of Monica's program to wake up David's love is very clever: the bright sunlight in the background is softly sprinkled on the two of them, Monica holds the back of David's neck and slowly reads out seven words - Just as God created the world in seven days. David's unswerving love for Monica was awakened, but it was also awakened to humanity just as Eve gave Adam the fruit of wisdom. David was abandoned by Monica, just as God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden.
Fourth, the "role" of the Blue Fairy symbolizes the Christian God—God. For human life, God is the ultimate savior and security: "God is our refuge, our strength, our ever-present help in trouble." (The Bible, Psalms, 46:1). Ultimate grace leads to the religious experience of "seeking the love of God," in which God is thought to be demanding the full obedience of life. The Blue Fairy is the object of David's obedience. In David's heart, she can satisfy David's wishes and give him life, with supreme "divine nature" and "love". In the "Bible•New Testament" text, the word representing God's love is agape, which is different from the "desire love" expressed by eros, agape is unconditional and universal love. The "New Testament" endows agape with the meaning of "giving love", just like David's cognition of the fairy tale The Blue Fairy: The Blue Fairy gifted Pinocchio with real physical life. Love".
Fifth, in the following plot, David's pursuit of the Blue Fairy is a process of pursuit of God. At the end of the journey, it is discovered that there is no such thing as a "God". At the time of despair, David chose to commit suicide, and while giving up his life, he gained a never-ending hope for God. In the dark seabed, he found the statue of the Blue Fairy, and from then on, he began to carry out eternity on a icy statue. pleading. Just as modern people are still begging for the statue of God.
In addition, the important element of the film, blue, is also a depiction of the image of God.
Jo, the lover robot in the story, said to David: "Blue represents melancholy." In fact, in this film, blue is not only a melancholy emotional element, but also serves as a warning (such as when David answers the phone, the light on the phone changes from red to blue in the close-up; before the swimming pool incident, Mo The cutlery that Nika distributes at the dinner table is blue; the car that Monica drove when David was dumped is blue; the man in the slaughterhouse machine's clairvoyant to tell if David is a robot is blue; Dr. Harpy The light from the cut-out lettering on the office door is blue). At the same time, blue is the representative color of the Blue Fairy, that is, the color of God (the color of the light that shines on the image of the Virgin), which represents divinity and reflects the quality of "indifference" (Monica is in the When Martin told a bedtime story, the light on the head of the bed shone on the two of them, while David, who was sitting on the ground in the distance, had a warm light on his face, and the blue color here was indifferent; Looking up at the stone statue of the Virgin, the light on the Virgin is also blue, and the blue here can also be viewed indifferently), in order to highlight the sense of despair that God brings to people.
To look at the film "Artificial Intelligence" from this perspective is to use the theme of science fiction to condense the entire history of mankind's pursuit of God. And, this quest for God — Kubrick, the screenwriter, believes — will never end, and it will never be answered.
Kubrick's conception of the relationship between man and God is extremely repressive and hopeless, and in the ending of his play, the amphibious helicopter in which David and Teddy are riding is imprisoned at the bottom of the sea by a Ferris wheel," David continued. Pray to the Blue Fairy, and she will always smile at him tenderly, she will always be so kind. At last the lights fade away, but David still sees her dimly, and he calls to her with a silver lining, and he prays till the sea anemone Withered and died, he prayed until the sea froze, the amphibious helicopter and the blue fairy were frozen, and he was locked in the ice and still saw, a blue figure, always there, always smiling, always waiting for him." , Kubrick's story ends. The ending mirrors the question at the beginning—God created man to love him, but he doesn't sympathize with man.
Spielberg, who directed the film, made up for Kubrick's desperation: There is no answer from God, but there should be some consolation for the faithful.
This is the second ending of the movie.
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