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Excuse me? Where's the mystery?

Posted by mhamilton (A) on July 6, 2001 at 16:13:45

In Reply to: A.I. (long) posted by Troy on July 4, 2001 at 14:46:18:

Are you watching the same cut I did?
Just because the advanced robots look like aliens doesn't imply
that they are.

It was explictly stated that the skinny translucent things
were the advanced robots. How much more clear do they have to
make it?

The fact that Speielberg has to SPELL OUT everything for the
numbskulls is a major fault of this movie.

There was so much opportunity for the use of subtext and imagry
to tell the story. But no, you gotta have a dorky narrator putting
simplistic explanations on everything, or worse yet, characters
that have to explain who they are.

The machine-become-man concept is not new. Maybe
Speilberg should have read a few SF novels and stolen some
endings rather than create one that I think even Disney could
have outdone.

A lot of critics have dumped on the movie for the fact that
the lead character is a robot, and there is no way that the
human audience can feel for the robot, and there is no way
that the audience can expect the Mother and Father to love
the robot. It is a man-made thing and therefore man has the
right to destroy what he creates.

There are two very interesting themes here that Speilberg
fumbles AND the critics totally miss.
1) DOES man have the right to destroy what he creates?
When a thing of beauty and maybe even life is created, do
we have any responsibility to it.
2) Can we define ANY form of sentient life by the axiom
"I think, therefore I am". IF so, then the robots have
as much right to life as the humans.

Speilberg GETS CLOSE to exposing this issues, but then he
washes over them, confused. As if he could see part of the picture
(I tend to believe its part of Kubrick's vision) but
he can't handle it. He ran out of money? time? the ability
to communicate deep thoughts through cinema?

Speilberg should be praised for this movie.
A director of his stature (deserved or not) should be ashamed he
screwed this up in so many ways.

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