Artificial Intelligence
Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence is a visually stunning and thematically complex film that asks deep questions about love and reality as man seeks to make himself in God's image. Through interactions with the artificial child and his “foster parents”, the role of the mechas in society, and the responsibility taken for the creation of advanced technology, this film definitely questions the future role of man’s responsibility for his actions, as well as the quality of his morality. Starting off, the movie takes place in a future where the greenhouse effect has melted the polar ice caps, submerging many coastal cities including New York, driven the population inland and caused violently chaotic weather. To make do with dwindling resources, humans have created robots that lack the ability to feel, called mechas, and some societies have become prosperous by strictly limiting the number of children families can have. This aspect of the film portrays robots as a greater equal than humans, for they can get the job done without having to deal with as much problems. This scene portrays humans of the future as losing feeling and heart, for they would rather deal with robots than their own kind. It is proposed that creating a
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Blue Fairy, Artificial Intelligence, Monica Henry, David Hobby, David Martin, Abandoned David, Martin David, advanced technology, foster parents, morals lost, mechas humans, humans created, created robots, artificial child,
Approximate Word count = 1112
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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