Tyler Hewitt wrote: > What do I think A.I. is about? > > Well, lots of things. Largely about ethics, especially > ethics regarding use of technology. Are we responsible > for what we create? What happens when we create > something that is useful or operable or in the case of > Osment's charecter "living" long after we are gone? Is > it possible to love a mechanical thing? Can mechanical > things express love? Does this make them 'alive'? > When we are capable of making something mecanical that > is 'alive', how do we treat them? As human, or as > sub-human?
I guess I didn't ask myself those questions becasue to me a robot is robot. end of story. it cannot be alive no matter what. However, for me the greater question lay in the original paremnts inability to accpet the death of their child and also William Hurts' characters refusal to accept the loss of his. I assume he has lost his as the robot boy is the replica of him in looks. It also made me think about the lenghts people go to to have children now when there are so many babies requiring homes who are left to rot whilst new baies are grown in test tubes or genes are messed with in order to have a tilor made baby. It also for me, showed what terrible things can happen when we put our faith and trust in counterfeit things-like money, sex, religion(as opposed to God), power, people,science,drugs, food, ......the list is manifest! > > . Can humanity only exist > within humans? yes. you'd have to call it somehting else if it existed elsewhere. the 'humanity' supplies hte defination. However, if you are asking can a machine feel , then no. > > I also think it's kind of a deconstuction of the myth > of the happy childhood. Most people have happy childhoods because it is too painful to have anything esle. I followed the film all the way thru. Enjoy is not the right word, it fascinated me. I also realise now that it perhaps wasn't supposed to be about something-other than the thoughts it produced in me-although it didn't make me think of anything i don't normally think about anyway. It was avisual feast. Sometimes I think tho that if a film maker feels he/she has an importnat, worthy opoint to get across, then they shouldn't be so obtuse about it! A film like this would have had huge appeal and success if the points they wanted to draw attention to were less obtuse and more readily grasped by the viewer.
