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AI was one of those films I had to see on my trip to Florida only four weeks ago. As well as a list of other films that came out there way before they came to the UK (Final Fantasy, Cats and Dogs, Jurassic Park III), AI definitely stood out.
AI or ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was a film that had been worked on for years between Stephen Spielberg and Stanley Kurbrik. But when Kurbrik died, Spielberg took charge.
The film was definitely the longest and strangest film I’d ever seen and was one of those films that you think about after you leave the cinema.
It IS the future, and human robots are already among us and are called ‘mechas’ which is short for ‘mechanicals’. But at that stage in time, no robot could feel emotions, eg. Love, hate, anger, sadness etc.
The film lashes into a deep group discussion about Professor Hobby’s creation that IS able to love, hate, feel anger, sadness etc. A boy is created (Haley Joel Osment - who is definitely the most annoying and cringe making actor ever) who looks just like a human. He is programmed to love his owner forever.
Prof. Hobby gives the robot boy - called DAVID to a couple who’s own son is hardly alive. They immediately find him creepy and strange as he follows them everywhere and is cringingly ‘perfect’.
The mother called Monica decides to program DAVID to be their son (Once programmed, he can never love any other ‘MOMMY’. They are happy for a while, but news arrives that their nearly dead son is fine again and can come home. He plays pranks on DAVID and eventually confuses him into doing bad things like nearly drowning people, or cutting his MOMMY’S hair while asleep.
Soon Monica can’t take it any more and in the most emotional scene in the film, dumps the cherubic DAVID in the woods.
Right. That takes up nearly half the film. Now it gets REAL strange.
Now that DAVID is all on his own, he has to find his MOMMY. He doesn’t know why she left him. Then he remembers a book he was reading - Pinocchio. A Blue Fairy helped Pinocchio become a real boy. If he found the fairy, maybe she could turn HIM into a real boy. - Confused yet?
Soon he meets a ‘sex-bot’ (played by Jude Law) to help him on his quest to find the Blue Fairy.
I won’t reveal what lies ahead - (which is a long and complicated twist and turn to the end) but I can say that Sci-fi fans will enjoy the end. There are aliens -
OK?
But what really is strange about the film is the fact that you know that the robots are REAL people in REAL life but the actors are playing robots are supposed to BE real. Therefore, it is difficult to feel sorry for robots. This point links quite comfortably with games. How can you feel emotions about characters that ARE’NT real? That IS the emotional paradox in the film!
So all in all, the film lacks ‘the feeling’ that you would with real people in films. The film starts well, but gets very lost at the end. It is definitely worth seeing if you go in with a really clear mind and have 3 hours to spare!
Basically it is a really deep, flawed movie!
AI or ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was a film that had been worked on for years between Stephen Spielberg and Stanley Kurbrik. But when Kurbrik died, Spielberg took charge.
The film was definitely the longest and strangest film I’d ever seen and was one of those films that you think about after you leave the cinema.
It IS the future, and human robots are already among us and are called ‘mechas’ which is short for ‘mechanicals’. But at that stage in time, no robot could feel emotions, eg. Love, hate, anger, sadness etc.
The film lashes into a deep group discussion about Professor Hobby’s creation that IS able to love, hate, feel anger, sadness etc. A boy is created (Haley Joel Osment - who is definitely the most annoying and cringe making actor ever) who looks just like a human. He is programmed to love his owner forever.
Prof. Hobby gives the robot boy - called DAVID to a couple who’s own son is hardly alive. They immediately find him creepy and strange as he follows them everywhere and is cringingly ‘perfect’.
The mother called Monica decides to program DAVID to be their son (Once programmed, he can never love any other ‘MOMMY’. They are happy for a while, but news arrives that their nearly dead son is fine again and can come home. He plays pranks on DAVID and eventually confuses him into doing bad things like nearly drowning people, or cutting his MOMMY’S hair while asleep.
Soon Monica can’t take it any more and in the most emotional scene in the film, dumps the cherubic DAVID in the woods.
Right. That takes up nearly half the film. Now it gets REAL strange.
Now that DAVID is all on his own, he has to find his MOMMY. He doesn’t know why she left him. Then he remembers a book he was reading - Pinocchio. A Blue Fairy helped Pinocchio become a real boy. If he found the fairy, maybe she could turn HIM into a real boy. - Confused yet?
Soon he meets a ‘sex-bot’ (played by Jude Law) to help him on his quest to find the Blue Fairy.
I won’t reveal what lies ahead - (which is a long and complicated twist and turn to the end) but I can say that Sci-fi fans will enjoy the end. There are aliens -
OK?
But what really is strange about the film is the fact that you know that the robots are REAL people in REAL life but the actors are playing robots are supposed to BE real. Therefore, it is difficult to feel sorry for robots. This point links quite comfortably with games. How can you feel emotions about characters that ARE’NT real? That IS the emotional paradox in the film!
So all in all, the film lacks ‘the feeling’ that you would with real people in films. The film starts well, but gets very lost at the end. It is definitely worth seeing if you go in with a really clear mind and have 3 hours to spare!
Basically it is a really deep, flawed movie!
Interesting Review. Thanks for the info, I'm still quite interested to see this and see how it was handled though.
D.A.R.Y.L. is an eighties film along the same lines. However the story A.I. is based on, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss, predates that. So draw your own conclusions.
A.I. is another one sitting on my desk in VCD form waiting for my attention. Stupid work - why don't they just give me money so I can sit at home and watch films in peace?
A.I. is another one sitting on my desk in VCD form waiting for my attention. Stupid work - why don't they just give me money so I can sit at home and watch films in peace?
rrrrrrrrrrrrrip!
And after all that, it still sounds like a ip off of DARYL.
AI was one of those films I had to see on my trip to Florida only four weeks ago. As well as a list of other films that came out there way before they came to the UK (Final Fantasy, Cats and Dogs, Jurassic Park III), AI definitely stood out.
AI or ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was a film that had been worked on for years between Stephen Spielberg and Stanley Kurbrik. But when Kurbrik died, Spielberg took charge.
The film was definitely the longest and strangest film I’d ever seen and was one of those films that you think about after you leave the cinema.
It IS the future, and human robots are already among us and are called ‘mechas’ which is short for ‘mechanicals’. But at that stage in time, no robot could feel emotions, eg. Love, hate, anger, sadness etc.
The film lashes into a deep group discussion about Professor Hobby’s creation that IS able to love, hate, feel anger, sadness etc. A boy is created (Haley Joel Osment - who is definitely the most annoying and cringe making actor ever) who looks just like a human. He is programmed to love his owner forever.
Prof. Hobby gives the robot boy - called DAVID to a couple who’s own son is hardly alive. They immediately find him creepy and strange as he follows them everywhere and is cringingly ‘perfect’.
The mother called Monica decides to program DAVID to be their son (Once programmed, he can never love any other ‘MOMMY’. They are happy for a while, but news arrives that their nearly dead son is fine again and can come home. He plays pranks on DAVID and eventually confuses him into doing bad things like nearly drowning people, or cutting his MOMMY’S hair while asleep.
Soon Monica can’t take it any more and in the most emotional scene in the film, dumps the cherubic DAVID in the woods.
Right. That takes up nearly half the film. Now it gets REAL strange.
Now that DAVID is all on his own, he has to find his MOMMY. He doesn’t know why she left him. Then he remembers a book he was reading - Pinocchio. A Blue Fairy helped Pinocchio become a real boy. If he found the fairy, maybe she could turn HIM into a real boy. - Confused yet?
Soon he meets a ‘sex-bot’ (played by Jude Law) to help him on his quest to find the Blue Fairy.
I won’t reveal what lies ahead - (which is a long and complicated twist and turn to the end) but I can say that Sci-fi fans will enjoy the end. There are aliens -
OK?
But what really is strange about the film is the fact that you know that the robots are REAL people in REAL life but the actors are playing robots are supposed to BE real. Therefore, it is difficult to feel sorry for robots. This point links quite comfortably with games. How can you feel emotions about characters that ARE’NT real? That IS the emotional paradox in the film!
So all in all, the film lacks ‘the feeling’ that you would with real people in films. The film starts well, but gets very lost at the end. It is definitely worth seeing if you go in with a really clear mind and have 3 hours to spare!
Basically it is a really deep, flawed movie!
AI or ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was a film that had been worked on for years between Stephen Spielberg and Stanley Kurbrik. But when Kurbrik died, Spielberg took charge.
The film was definitely the longest and strangest film I’d ever seen and was one of those films that you think about after you leave the cinema.
It IS the future, and human robots are already among us and are called ‘mechas’ which is short for ‘mechanicals’. But at that stage in time, no robot could feel emotions, eg. Love, hate, anger, sadness etc.
The film lashes into a deep group discussion about Professor Hobby’s creation that IS able to love, hate, feel anger, sadness etc. A boy is created (Haley Joel Osment - who is definitely the most annoying and cringe making actor ever) who looks just like a human. He is programmed to love his owner forever.
Prof. Hobby gives the robot boy - called DAVID to a couple who’s own son is hardly alive. They immediately find him creepy and strange as he follows them everywhere and is cringingly ‘perfect’.
The mother called Monica decides to program DAVID to be their son (Once programmed, he can never love any other ‘MOMMY’. They are happy for a while, but news arrives that their nearly dead son is fine again and can come home. He plays pranks on DAVID and eventually confuses him into doing bad things like nearly drowning people, or cutting his MOMMY’S hair while asleep.
Soon Monica can’t take it any more and in the most emotional scene in the film, dumps the cherubic DAVID in the woods.
Right. That takes up nearly half the film. Now it gets REAL strange.
Now that DAVID is all on his own, he has to find his MOMMY. He doesn’t know why she left him. Then he remembers a book he was reading - Pinocchio. A Blue Fairy helped Pinocchio become a real boy. If he found the fairy, maybe she could turn HIM into a real boy. - Confused yet?
Soon he meets a ‘sex-bot’ (played by Jude Law) to help him on his quest to find the Blue Fairy.
I won’t reveal what lies ahead - (which is a long and complicated twist and turn to the end) but I can say that Sci-fi fans will enjoy the end. There are aliens -
OK?
But what really is strange about the film is the fact that you know that the robots are REAL people in REAL life but the actors are playing robots are supposed to BE real. Therefore, it is difficult to feel sorry for robots. This point links quite comfortably with games. How can you feel emotions about characters that ARE’NT real? That IS the emotional paradox in the film!
So all in all, the film lacks ‘the feeling’ that you would with real people in films. The film starts well, but gets very lost at the end. It is definitely worth seeing if you go in with a really clear mind and have 3 hours to spare!
Basically it is a really deep, flawed movie!