--- colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is what I liked about it, though: the idea > that human happiness and satisfaction was something > that could be achieved literally after eons of > sitting and waiting patiently, > > But it wasn't! he was a ROBOT!!!!!!! > > human longing is far from easily satisfied. the fact > that people search to be satified in all the wrong > ways/places is indeed very sad. Humans and their > emtions are ahything but banal.
Every time I see the word "robot", I think "rodot" - the way my son used to spell it (mixing his b's and d's.) There are many stories about people who would give anything they could for however brief a period of happiness. Fairy tales are full of that stuff. The Little Mermaid - in the Andersen version (if I remember this right), she was given human legs so she could leave the sea and go and find and marry this prince she fell in love with but, in exchange for that, every step she took on land felt like she was walking on daggers (in the Disney version, she gave up her voice.) I see this film the same as a fairy tale - and fairy tales are pretty scary. I can understand someone willing to take only one day of happiness with the person he most loved if that was all he could have (even if he is a rodot.) ______________________________________________________________________ File your taxes online! http://taxes.yahoo.ca
