| Perfectly fake. |
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| written by wes2666 |
September 28, 2004 - 9:49 PM PDT |
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5 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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Most people I've talked to thought that AI was interesting, pretty, or at least tolerable right up until the "2000 years later" jump. Then the deus ex machina fulfillment of the android's dream put them off as uncomfortably schmaltzy.
Obviously Speilberg was riffing on the final bedroom sequence of 2001 and trying to bring it into his childlike universe. He didn't quite clear that bar, but the sequence is still one of the coldest and strangest in the film. The only way to grant David's wish to become a "real boy" is for the storyteller to kill off all of the other boys leaving David's memory as the last vestige of humanity.
In addition the "happy ending" that the super A.I. stage-manage for David is a perfectly artificial moment. It was created by artificial beings, for an artificial boy (who was designed to fulfil an idealized maternal dream), within the artifice of a fairy tale. Who could be a better director for this than Stephen Spielberg? |
| Watch Blade Runner instead |
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| written by hneline1 |
June 7, 2002 - 5:02 PM PDT |
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7 out of 13 members found this review helpful
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| Haley Joel Osment gives an awesome performance as usual. The story, on the other hand, starts slow and then just gets weirder and weirder. It was one hour too long. If you want to experience "mechanical human" angst and the misgivings of real humans towards their mechanical counterparts, watch the classic, Blade Runner. |
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