It’s interesting how so many of us who saw this film as children understood the basic emotions that David was feeling but failed to grasp the larger philosophical themes until we are older. A true masterpiece
I was about same age as Haley Joel Osmen in the film, around 11-12 years old and it was the first non animated movie I ever saw with a complete sci-fi theme. It made cry, and also made me fall in love with the genre.
Yeah. He was the one character I truly empathized with, and that made the ending even more heartbreaking. Seeing him left behind as David realized his dream and passed away left me scarred for a long time, but I still loved this movie, even when I watched it for the first time time as a little kid
The sole fact that David felt like he had to be made of flesh and blood to be a real child... just to be in the end the last proof of humanity's compassion and ability to love, always brings me to tears...
I cried at the end of this movie. It was so emotional to me as a child. Though I didnt understand most of the movie at the time, I understood that David just wanted his Mother to love him. And in the end, he heard those words, I cried. And hug my own Mother and she told me that she will always love me.
Was 22 when I saw this film and I cried at the end, I've also never watched it again. I'm now 41 and have a lump in my throat watching this breakdown of the film, it in a limited club along with the green mile and war horse as films I love but can not watch again 😢
I saw a glimpse of this movie when I was 7 years old. It left such an impact on me that I could not forget it. After another 10 years I was able to track it down from memory and by god was a satisfied!!!!! One of the best movies ever made.
Glad I wasn’t the only one. I remembered some arena looking scene and exposing robotic limbs or something and it was such a weird vibe it was probably what got me into darker scifi.
13:48 I'm so glad you mentioned Joe and Teddy's love for David. I think it's so easy to focus on David's character that viewers easily overlook Joe and Teddy's incredible compassion. I think their loyalty towards David is actually much more remarkable than David's love for Monica because they weren't programmed to imprint on him. Teddy stood by David the whole time and Joe repeatedly prioritized David's quest over his own survival. Also, I just adore the odd pairing of Joe and David. They somehow made a relationship between a sexbox and little android boy (!!) super adorable. I'm really glad that David remembered Joe when he woke up 2000 years later. I think one of the saddest characters is Teddy though.. the forever loyal and wise friend who just gets tossed away and forgotten... first by Martin then by David. ;( I just hope the advanced mecha gives Teddy happiness too.
Yes that’s another amazing point in the movie that human beings mistreated the robots for not being human or “real” but in the end the humans were the monsters.
The movie was straight out demoralizing, depressing and demotivating; a truly perfect grimm future sci-fi themed movie In the end all humans and AI prototypes rendered decayed; and faced with total extinction; only the new 'alien-looking' race of cyborg-esque beings've thrived, unironically they acted to little AI with most 'humane' approach; and truly feel sad for him
@@twstf8905 watch until the end of movie; the 'beings' that 'healed' the little AI has explained almost entirety of human species; as well as the human designed Androids have gone completely extinct... Additionally the cloning doesn't work either :(
The DORUK when I first saw this movie, it was confusing and hard to understand. The only thing i was understood is the Motherly love only . I cry and go hug my mom , lmao though
I watched this movie decades ago and it was phenomenal to me. At first I don't understand but over time I kinda understood its a journey of a robot boy AI who want to know things and self-imposed journey of love to his believed mother. Its kinda like Bicentennial Man, a 1999 American science fiction comedy-drama film. Starred by the legendary actor Robert Williams as Andrew, an android AI who's also went into a journey towards his existence. But unlike this movie where humanity still thrived and that Andrew question of his consciousness as real and feels it gets to the point he would realized as it means. Could you also cover this as well Niyat? I loved this movie!
Maybe I'm remembering wrong but I thought the beings at the end said they came across the dead civilization on earth and that david was all that was left of it.
@@blackentertainmenthistory8601 The reason he is able to cry at the end it’s because the entire ending scene taking place in the apartment is not actually happening in the physical sense; it’s really taking place inside David’s mind, a simulation created by the super mecha. That they told him his mother would only live for a day and that they needed samples to recreate her were all lies, as it was all a simulation. In reality, they were testing David, to see if he had transcended his programming and learned to be selfish and inward looking instead of being purely made to love. Because to be human is to ultimately be selfish and act in one’s own self interest.
You assumed David was the only mecha who could go beyond his programming, but in my opinion throughout the film Teddy, Jiggalo Joe, and other Mechas were also making decisions outside their programming. It was a mistake to think that love was the special ingredient for consciousness. Unconditional love is what made David a slave to Monicka, it did not give him more freedom. He couldn't choose Jigalo Joe to be his new parent because he was bound by his quest to get Monicka to love him.
So spot on. Another of the many contradictions in the movie. The 'love' programmed into David was a terrible idea. He can ONLY imprint on one or the two parents (they didn't make that clear). They say it can't be undone (the programming in the movie), so he's trapped, a slave to the one he's imprinted on. And he's dangerous because of this (see how he destroyed the other David towards end of movie). Also if no adults around, he would've killed Martin his step brother in the pool to save himself from the bully kids. The company really endangered this family with their creation. No fail safe off command just in case something like this happens. Other robots can go outside their programming. Older modeled robots like Joe and especially Teddy. They showed loyalty and cared. David never really did. It wasn't enough to be with them, his programing was stupid to keep so focused on his 'mother' and nothing else. The premier robot company never knew this? They would never see this from all the robots they've manufactured through the years and done the programing on? And they go and manufacture and package a whole bunch of 'Davids' without researching and seeing all the problems with the first model David to correct things. The acting of the mother (great actress) and David (great kid actor) is what makes people think this is a good movie. They're both excellent. The story has a good idea, but executed clumsy, contradictory, world doesn't seem so dystopian and a corny ending with corny narration.
@@ShortRound42 you're seeing David's flaws in programming as a flaw of the movie though. Its possible to also be exploring those issues, that computers can be a slave to their (sometimes incorrect) programming. That they created a slave who could 'love' without the scientist's seeming to fully understand love and how that would have an affect on the robot. But that makes sense, humans in the movie are repeatedly shown not to really care about robots humanity, so they wouldn't care that he was a slave, David's lack of concern for everyone but his mother is an oversight on the scientist's part due to them once again, not fully thinking out what it meant to create a being with feelings. But also David's actions don't not match that of a child, even the aliens say at the end that he was created to be so young. He acts like a young boy and so if flawed like one, none of his actions seem particularly unrealistic to what I would expect off a child that age, even the almost drowning Martin because he didn't realise he would die
@@ShortRound42 the world did feel dystopian not gonna lie. It may not look like an apocalyptic hellscape due to all the societal decadence but I feel like that’s what made it more believable. With most of the world destroyed and displaced and the reduction of the population it truly felt like humanity was on its last leg. Humanity was dying slowly though with using decadence and entertainment as a way to ease their end. Rouge city is an entire example of this just one city dedicated to sex and comfort rather than building a new future for humanity. Furthermore the mechas cement this feeling of the end of humanity with this being the reason for why there was fleshflairs for people recognizing that mechas would soon to replace humans. And in the end the mechas were the only thing to survive as humanity froze. So yes This movie felt very dystopian just not in the traditional hellscape sense but rather in a more deppresing realistic fashion
@@ShortRound42 Joe tried. He really did. He warned David that his journey would ultimately be fruitless and he tried his best to educate him, something Monica didn't do. Joe, of all the would be parents, was more loyal and caring than anyone in David's "life." David's flaws, and the company's flaws, were not flaws of the movie. They were part of the story.
People are mistaking plot holes for deep meaning. Gigolo Joe went beyond his programming the moment he ran from the cops after getting framed for murder. Wouldn't the proper robot response have been trying to save the injured woman and/or apprehend her killer who was standing there? Of course, the movie never really sets its terms, unlike Isaac Asimov, who gives the 3 RULES OF ROBOTS on page 1 of "I Am Robot".
I never understood this movie until explained now, tbh it’s heart warming that David finally found happiness at the end. Something most of us human won’t be able to achieve by the end of our lifetime.
Except that happiness was a lie. As said, it wasn't his real mother. He wanted to be lived by the real person, and instead it had to be simulated and faked. It's no different than taking drugs for the emotional high it gives you, cause you can't get it living normally. Or believing in a god because you can't live with your own choices and need them to be blamed on someone else. You see it as a good thing, that he found 'Happiness'. I see it as a bad, because it was never real, he never got his 'real mother' to love him, it was simply a fake programed to love him because it made him happy and not a real person. The fake Simulated Mother, was no different than an AI we see today, having specific responses programed in. David was lied to and put into a bubble. That is horrifying.
@@Jirodyne agreed, authenticity matters most to me. Since its someone else's happiness being affected I do feel glad that david found some semblance of peace in the end and so his torment was ended but I also agree on how horrific it is. It took a lie for it to end, to come to terms with depressing reality. Its something that humanity in the real world deals with daily, many unknowingly. I'd argue it's one of, if not our greatest struggle in our entire existence as an intelligent and conscious species.
@@Jirodyne Doesn’t matter, the love David felt from the “fake”, whether real or not, was real to David. That’s not horrifying; what’s horrifying is your understanding of that simple aspect of this existential turd of a movie. 🤣🤘
@@ian12346 Eh, not much Existential about it. Not even that complicated of an aspect or concept when done in this way. Now if a child was adopted by parents from an orphanage, the kid acted completely normal, the family is normal, everyone bonding and happy. Then suddenly an accident happens to the kid that exposes he was a robot, a machine, and the parents didn't know. That would be an interesting concept. Cause at that point, they are emotionally attached, and the kid acts like a normal kid and no weird robotic behaviors. So is the kid real? does he have a soul? can he love? This movie, made it very clear the robots is fake and don't understand nor can learn emotions and will never be real. The ending just proved it.
It's touching that "Artificial Intelligence", Kubrick's story created in honor of his memory by Spielberg, was released in 2001. The namesake of Kubrick's most iconic movie: "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I watched this movie when it came out in 2001. I was 10years old. We even had a dvd which was worn down from too much playback. I was obsessed. I loved it then but i never really understood the underlying themes behind it. It was just a cool movie for me. I revisited this movie a couple of years ago and was shocked much i missed - the essence of the movie, really. Watching this as an adult gave it a new kind of light. Kind of like watching kids movies and understanding all the green jokes in them, only this time, its existential dread instead of green jokes.
Same. I used to go to the cinema almost every weekend with my dad. I remember watching “spy kids” one Saturday and next day I watched this wonderful movie. I got so involved with this plot that for the whole week I still remembered it and forgot all about the other movie. Even today, I remember more A.I than any other movie I watched back in the day. And I still cry just when I saw it for the first time.
As an adopted child who did find a home with a loving Mom and Dad...the end scene with David and his Mom really moves me. That longing to "be a real boy" and have a Mother's Love is powerful and everlasting.
Thank so much for giving your attention to this gem. I’ve tried baiting people into watching this with me and I’ve settled for returning to it whenever I need to feel connected again
In my 40yrs of life I’ve never teared-up over a film review, until now.... I have a feeling that myself being a child of adoption connects me to “A.I.” & “David” deeper, luckily tho I am & was shown loved by my adoptive parents & family, which I know everybody doesn’t get through life....
@Babes & Board Games The A.I. (David) was self aware. It felt joy, sadness, pleasure, and pain. Rejection.... Loneliness. While not human, any self aware entity that can feel deserves compassion. Do you not have compassion for animals? Some people do- some don't..... Just because they're not human. It served a purpose as a companion tool. That's why cars that crash and phones that get dropped repeatedly are tools not made to have feelings lol. They become obsolete.... Your favorite pet, toy, or clothing will never.... because you LOVE them.
I also get really emotional with the final scene, where David gets to reunite with an exact duplication of Monica, centuries after mankind has already perished, for one last time too. It should have been a happy ending because David finally gets what he always wants, which is the motherly love from Monica. But we know that Monica was resurrected by the extraterrestrials only for one day, and she will be gone forever after.
What I felt to be very interesting was the dichotomy between David and Joe. David was made to truly love unconditionally, and Joe was made to love the flesh. How amazing was it to see two perspectives on what their algorithmic perspective brings to us viewers.
Under the the pretense of : "He was always real , because he was self-aware and conscious , And he carried the torch of the human condition".. The Misunderstood is the perfect thing to call this film ...omg .
I looked at nominees: He was better than Russel Crowe (man I think that movie was extremely overrated and wish they went with Apollo 18 as the Give Ron Howard the best picture award) and my god, they really did nominate Sean Penn for the aged horribly I Am Sam.. Hindsight awards, AI gets way more love
I think I watched this when I was around 7, it left such an impact on me that I could never forget after all these years, I still clearly remember the vegetable scene, the blue fairy, the Einstein looking ai, the carnival thing where he met Joe. I didn't understand much of it back then and rewatching it really made me fully appreciate this masterpiece.
This movie helped bring understanding and healing to a long reigning existential crisis. It's like there was some long forgotten truth embedded in it that resonated with my aching soul.
I'm late here but just wanted to say thank you. There's so much more in-depth analysis that could be done of this movie, but you managed to cover some of the important points that so many still miss. This movie is heart-breaking but undeniably thought-provoking.
@@masterbate6295 It wasn't real it was all in his mind...a simulation that the robots created for him so he could feel happy. They didn't need the mothers hair only told him that.
@@edithnotime4losers295 it's really irrelevant whther it's "in his mind" or not. The experience was real enough. What do you base your reality on? And do you think our current reality will mean anything once we are long gone? Ten years, hundred years, 10,000 years?? There will be a time when all reality as we know it will be completely gone without a trace of it anywhere...
I remember watching this with my mom at 1am, I cried so hard at the end. I wish I could cherish my mom more but unfortunately, my mom died a few year later when i was in grade 8. Its been 6 years since then, i still watch this from time to time but it will never be the same without my mom.
That made the movie exponentially sad and deep for me. Sure, what is "love" during the time of humans? But what is love itself in the universe? What is anything really in time?
It's been years since I last watched this movie, and I always loved it, but I havent rewatched it since becoming an adult and father. Being reminded of the storyline paired with this fantastic breakdown of the thematic elements...I was literally sobbing. I'm afraid to go rewatch this but I know I have to now. Thank you so much.
Absolutely phenomenal work, this might be the best breakdown review I've ever seen, looking forward to when you hit your first million Subs which won't be long my friend when you put out such incredible content
Oh God memories hit hard. I was 10 when I first watched cried a lot. After growing up people still didnt understand why I cried to scifi movie but this and interstellar made me cry like little boy
This gem doesn't deserve so much hate, a truly underrated sci-fi classic. It's a real shame that one of Stanley Kubrik's final film works got no love from audiences. I liked the film for it's drama and themes of can love be found in machines.
I could watch this film over, and over, and over, and have done for 10+ years. Probably one of my favourite comfort films. Also Teddy is my favourite character, both in the film and book.
I remember being so blown away by this when I first saw it, but at the same time COMPLETELY lost about what the hell I had just watched. So visually stunning and deeply written it took me two viewings to take it all in.
The ending kills me every time. I just turn into a water fountain. I was 6 or 7 when I saw it for the first time so I connected a lot with the robot kid. Edit: Ohhhh they were robots. Always thought they were aliens.
same here they both cover what i fear will happen in the future that when mankind succedes beyond its wildest expectations with ai built in our image that we will still refuse to call them alive or as equals leading to the doom or spiral of both or one of us but there is still hope we just have to lesson peoples fears and ideas of ai before one is made and thats still plenty of time.
This is a beautiful video, thanks for making this. This movie had a big impact on me when I was younger and I didn't realize why until I became older and wiser.
I was still 6 when I watched this movie, the last fragment in my memory of these is the kid and a talking teddy bear riding a futuristic helicopter flying through the frozen city. It was really a gold for me but as I grew on, it's becoming obscure that I've completely forgotten it which I started looking until this content show up. I thank you for explaining these movie, it meant a lot for me. Greetings from Seattle.
Haven't seen this movie in two decades but that ending scene with him spending one more day with his mother STUCK with me. Even just hearing this synopsis again had me tearing up
This is one movie I just can't watch again. I was 8 when I first watched this movie. I grew up without a father and my mom had just left me and wouldn't come back again. Even now, only 'person' that I could actually sympathize with seems to be only David. The scene where the mother leaves him just breaks open never healing wound in my heart again. The ending scene is a fantasy I keep imagining being myself and my mom over and over again.
If your mom abandoned you the last thing you should be fantasizing about is spending a day with her. You don’t need anyone else to justify your happiness in life. Go crush the day and find your own happiness!
I can feel David's pain, since i also wish for a mother. Others have given me love and support, and i do love them back for that.... But their is a big hole in my heart, one i will never be able to stop fealing.
Your explanation video was top tier quality, but I wanted to add something else to the discussion: 1. Teddy Analysis - As a believer in God, I want to go out on a limb and say that I think that Teddy is actually a GUARDIAN ANGEL! Angels, as they appear and are mentioned in the Bible, can essentially come in many different forms that can range from appearing as another human to something completely bizarre. That said, I want to apply this same logic that a guardian angel has appeared in the form of Teddy. Teddy has more logic than the other machines (e.g., he mentioned to Monica that he is not a toy), he saved David by telling that littler girl that David is in that cage, and he follows David wherever he goes and even spent 2,000 years with him in that Amphibious - Helicopter! As a result, I don't think Teddy was abandoned at the end of the movie, but I think more that the Angel left the bear body and returned to be with God! Again, I might be going too deep with this, but I think there's some validity to it! :) 2. Can Humans love Machines? My answer is YES and I want to use the love people have for their cars as an example. I'm a Male and a lot of males (and some females) have a lot of love for their car! Heck, I'm that dude that be ready to throw hands if someone parks right next to me in an empty parking lot AND/OR I tell my car "I'm sorry" when I hit a pothole that I wasn't able to avoid lol! Love can come in many different forms/categories (e.g., The love I have for my car is DIFFERENT from the love I have with my significant other, etc.) and so my final answer is YES humans can love machines, but there needs to be context and I would omit any intimacy/sexual love from this discussion and I would consider it to be out of context should someone bring those two into the discussion. I hope all of this makes sense! 3. If I had an A.I. for myself, I would program it to die or shutdown when I die. If that is not an option, I would program my A.I. to start "forgetting" things as it ages on - just like us humans start forgetting things as we age. This approach, however, would be so that my A.I. isn't forced to live the rest of it's life replaying memories with someone that is gone Please let me know your thoughts, and once again, I liked this discussion! Best, Cameron
There's definitely room to apply a religious analysis to this movie - someone could probably argue that the concept of David is the same concept that people are to apply to Jesus. The scene where David imprints and is embraced by Monica identical to the thinking and intents people are supposed to have on receiving Christ as Holy Eucharist. On the other side, people can think of themselves as Gigolo Joe - some of the first people (Romans) to find Christ after he was abandoned by the Jews, and ultimately the people who died to place Christ in The Tabernacle where he spends most of his presence on Earth for 2000 years actually. Or, probably most obviously, someone can think of themselves as David - looking for the answer to the human condition - and in that manner "become a real boy" such that they are no longer tainted by evil, or at worst totally deluded into thinking they've finally found their love like David at the end of the movie. But most likely the movie itself and others like it are themselves like Gigolo Joe - usually found outside churches where people fold their hands and sing songs: looking for the ones who made them. Ideas like Joe probably pick up lots of business at those spots.
I always felt bad for the teddy bear at the end of the movie being stuck in the vessel underwater with the David reciting the wish of Pinocchio over and over again for 2,000 years
I think the fact that I keep forgetting the existence of this film throughout my existence, and then all of a sudden, on a random happy Sunday, remembering I love this depressing & bleak film is a true testament to how much I am a sad, sad masochist.
I can relate to David because I was abandonded just like David because of autism.I wish I had a son like David.A beautiful,thought provoking and well made movie.😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤
The fact that David had more love and feelings then a real human is perfect irony. It's sad that the mother no longer wanted him however. Like first movie I've seen where a non human child isnt actually evil.
I was actually afraid of this movie when I first watched it at 7 years old, (it was the scene where the kids threaten David with cutting him open at the pool and I had to stop watching it.) but I came back to it as an adult and it turned into one of my favorite films. It felt so strange to relate to this robot boy, but also a to be able to empathize with his search for love from his mom and also to empathize with his existence and it’s meaning/meaninglessness was crazy profound.
I had always loved the movie since i saw it in the theater. Still do. Brings me to tears every time he experiences his last day. I never understood the criticism people had for the movie. It seemed pompus. Its fascinating and riviting all the way through each time i watch it. One of my favorites!
Criticisms: (1) Way too long and slow paced. Long establishing shots and 3-4 different angles of the same scene for no particular reason, adding 10-15 extra seconds to scenes, again and again. (2) Scatterbrain script. Is it a family drama; a climate change warning; a story of humans attacking robots; an ET reboot; a re-telling of Pinocchio? (3) Plot holes. Why did the doctor leave David alone in the office with all those replicants after they worked so hard to recapture him? He literally jumps off the building! Why would the scientists allow that to happen. And, why is the doctor's office still in Manhattan which is under 300 feet of ocean water? That makes ZERO sense! (4) Happy ending tacked on to placate the audience.
Rewatching this in 2021. The absolutely best AI movie ever produced. It's just crazy how far ahead this director is. This could be a hit if release today (20 years later).
It's such a beautiful ride from beginning to end. I still remember when I first saw it as a kid, I couldn't look away from stunning visuals and wonderful this world this built upon. Now that I'm older I find that there is beauty in the sorrow all through out. I will always love this movie. ❤️
It's one of my guilty pleasure films. After having a child with my fiance and watching it again.... It is for sure a good film about the condition on love that is inside all of us. The damage that it can cause when that love isn't repecipricated and ultimately finding your own happiness in your own world. It is deeper then people realise and for that reason I love it. After having a child it for sure changes your idea of it.... As people say it's like your heart is outside your body. You would die for them if need be. Can the same be said about ai. Will they feel real love or will it just be programming and when does that line cross? People saw this film as a departure from Spielbergs usual stuff. I saw it as an extension of his wonderful vision for cinema and Kubricks dark and ultimately somber tone through the film. You ask yourself the question. Could you love a machine? An AI that felt everything we do? But ultimately it was made and not born. Kubrick thought and believed it would be NO. Knowing it can be replaced and repaired just changed the dynamic of love and protection. Love who they are not what they are which changes the reasoning behind love itself. It's a whole new emotion we will have to understand. Repair and replace over protect. It for sure makes you think about it.
As a 27 year old male that watched this for the first time (I think??) in 2023, this movie led me to having my first EMOTIONAL breakdown and I used that to pray to God and "let it all out"! Everything about this film is so heart touching, but also relatable! The part that snatches my heart out is when he was praying/talking to the blue fairy underwater as the camera zooms out and the narrator begins to fast forward as we slowly zoom out. He was down there in that "Amphibious - Helicopter" for 2,000 years
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I saw this movie when it came out in theatres when I was six or seven. Having a drug addicted mom my whole life made the heartbreak David went through just wanting his mothers love very relatable and I cry every time I watch it. I watched it again recently and now I have a son, so I couldn’t help but cry even more now. It’s still the most dystopian movie I’ve ever seen and does perfectly what so many sci fi films fail to do… make you care about the future and fear the path we are on now as humans.
Monica didn't love David? I think she did on some degree, that's precisely why she couldn't bring herself to take him to the factory and instead lets him loose in the wilderness. Sure she loved her real flesh and blood son more, but that doesn't mean she didn't love David. I guess it was a constant struggle in her mind, those scenes where David's face gets deformed would remind her David's real "essence", still she did develop feelings for him. I don't know, I guess it's hard to tell but I wouldn't discard her affection easily.
This movie is such an underrated masterpiece. The psychological aspects explored in this really are something special and becoming ever more relevant as we advance technologically. I don’t think it will ever be possible for an artificial being to ever truly feel an emotion, but Kubrik and Speilberg painted a stern and bleak picture of what that would look like.
I never really considered Gigolo Joe to be a Geppetto counterpart. I always saw him as being one to Lampwick, since he was Pinocchio’s best friend (despite being a troublemaker) was the one led him to Toyland/Pleasure Island like how Joe led David to Rouge City. And also like Joe, Lampwick met an unfortunate demise as well at the end of the original story.
This movie is beautiful in its own way. The feeling of existential pain it gives makes it truly special. Even remember the scenes and hearing the explanation is enough to bring back those feelings
It’s interesting how so many of us who saw this film as children understood the basic emotions that David was feeling but failed to grasp the larger philosophical themes until we are older. A true masterpiece
I saw it for the first time as a teenager, but I did not have the life experience yet to truly appreciate it.
I saw this when I was 8 and still remember feeling sad when think about the boy.
Yeah man. This movie hits different as an adult.
I was just telling somebody this same exact thing about this movie
I was about same age as Haley Joel Osmen in the film, around 11-12 years old and it was the first non animated movie I ever saw with a complete sci-fi theme. It made cry, and also made me fall in love with the genre.
Teddy is my favorite character in this underrated gem.
Yeah. He was the one character I truly empathized with, and that made the ending even more heartbreaking. Seeing him left behind as David realized his dream and passed away left me scarred for a long time, but I still loved this movie, even when I watched it for the first time time as a little kid
I still wish I could have a Teddy.
Mm xe vc m9
"I am *not* a toy"
Love him
@@TheDahaka1 it was ahead of its time
The sole fact that David felt like he had to be made of flesh and blood to be a real child... just to be in the end the last proof of humanity's compassion and ability to love, always brings me to tears...
That last day with his mom really tugs the heart strings
@@lomtiptak9519 Horribly selfish on David's part to bring back a dead human. Like Mormons who add ppl to their rolls after they pass.
I cried at the end of this movie. It was so emotional to me as a child. Though I didnt understand most of the movie at the time, I understood that David just wanted his Mother to love him. And in the end, he heard those words, I cried. And hug my own Mother and she told me that she will always love me.
Was 22 when I saw this film and I cried at the end, I've also never watched it again. I'm now 41 and have a lump in my throat watching this breakdown of the film, it in a limited club along with the green mile and war horse as films I love but can not watch again 😢
I rarely cry but this movie had me in tears at the end. Its crazy that so few people even know about this masterpiece.
Y’all gonna make me cry I’m at work. 😭
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*i cry*
I saw a glimpse of this movie when I was 7 years old. It left such an impact on me that I could not forget it. After another 10 years I was able to track it down from memory and by god was a satisfied!!!!!
One of the best movies ever made.
Same
That happened to me as well!!
Glad I wasn’t the only one.
I remembered some arena looking scene and exposing robotic limbs or something and it was such a weird vibe it was probably what got me into darker scifi.
@@RadicalRain
The flesh fair
I was also a kid when I saw this and I remember being deeply emotionally impacted by it
Anyone else get teary eyed listening and remembering all the scenes?
LOL, I literally just commented that Niyat did a little TOO good on this as I started to tear up remembering!! Such a great storyteller!
NO! * *sniffs* *
I felt like crying after watching this video, and I haven't even seen the movie yet!
I think that if you can watch this movie without shedding a tear, then you don't have the right to call yourself human.
I was literally trying not to ugly cry just remembering the longing to just be loved back. I love that movie to this day.
This movie was so underrated.
I hope more people will hear of it and watch it.
A.I. has a 7.2/10 rating on IMDB. That seems about right. Maybe a bit high.
Perhaps if you saw this movie before age 10, it hits you differently?
@@JB-ti7bl it'll always be a 10/10 for me bby~
@@jennifervan75same here just watched as a adult again
13:48 I'm so glad you mentioned Joe and Teddy's love for David. I think it's so easy to focus on David's character that viewers easily overlook Joe and Teddy's incredible compassion. I think their loyalty towards David is actually much more remarkable than David's love for Monica because they weren't programmed to imprint on him. Teddy stood by David the whole time and Joe repeatedly prioritized David's quest over his own survival. Also, I just adore the odd pairing of Joe and David. They somehow made a relationship between a sexbox and little android boy (!!) super adorable. I'm really glad that David remembered Joe when he woke up 2000 years later. I think one of the saddest characters is Teddy though.. the forever loyal and wise friend who just gets tossed away and forgotten... first by Martin then by David. ;( I just hope the advanced mecha gives Teddy happiness too.
Couldn't have been said better!
Yes that’s another amazing point in the movie that human beings mistreated the robots for not being human or “real” but in the end the humans were the monsters.
I think teddy embodies the mute devotion of our pets, how devoted to us whether we notice or not, but with the ability to speak.
@@kingdomfreedom8323 oh god yes 😢💔this is making me cry even more, though
I don't think it's that profound.. more like profound holes in the story...😊
The movie was straight out demoralizing, depressing and demotivating; a truly perfect grimm future sci-fi themed movie
In the end all humans and AI prototypes rendered decayed; and faced with total extinction; only the new 'alien-looking' race of cyborg-esque beings've thrived, unironically they acted to little AI with most 'humane' approach; and truly feel sad for him
Huh?!?
@@twstf8905 watch until the end of movie; the 'beings' that 'healed' the little AI has explained almost entirety of human species; as well as the human designed Androids have gone completely extinct...
Additionally the cloning doesn't work either :(
The DORUK when I first saw this movie, it was confusing and hard to understand. The only thing i was understood is the Motherly love only . I cry and go hug my mom , lmao though
I watched this movie decades ago and it was phenomenal to me. At first I don't understand but over time I kinda understood its a journey of a robot boy AI who want to know things and self-imposed journey of love to his believed mother.
Its kinda like Bicentennial Man, a 1999 American science fiction comedy-drama film. Starred by the legendary actor Robert Williams as Andrew, an android AI who's also went into a journey towards his existence. But unlike this movie where humanity still thrived and that Andrew question of his consciousness as real and feels it gets to the point he would realized as it means.
Could you also cover this as well Niyat? I loved this movie!
Maybe I'm remembering wrong but I thought the beings at the end said they came across the dead civilization on earth and that david was all that was left of it.
Dude this movie is a trip, I cried so hard at the end.
Seriously? You literally cried over this movie? I'm just not seeing it.
I didn't realize he shut down at the end. Thanks for clarifying that.
Duh he cries at the end of the movie robots cant cry then he shuts down at the end
Jonathan Cobbs I mean he basically died
@@blackentertainmenthistory8601 The reason he is able to cry at the end it’s because the entire ending scene taking place in the apartment is not actually happening in the physical sense; it’s really taking place inside David’s mind, a simulation created by the super mecha. That they told him his mother would only live for a day and that they needed samples to recreate her were all lies, as it was all a simulation. In reality, they were testing David, to see if he had transcended his programming and learned to be selfish and inward looking instead of being purely made to love. Because to be human is to ultimately be selfish and act in one’s own self interest.
@@esyphillis101 damn that’s crazy I didn’t realize that!!!
@@esyphillis101that’s how I always saw it as well
I personally think this is one of the deepest videos you've created. Well done.
Facts, I had one tear from each eye roll down my face. I didn't wipe them away for a while.
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You assumed David was the only mecha who could go beyond his programming, but in my opinion throughout the film Teddy, Jiggalo Joe, and other Mechas were also making decisions outside their programming. It was a mistake to think that love was the special ingredient for consciousness. Unconditional love is what made David a slave to Monicka, it did not give him more freedom. He couldn't choose Jigalo Joe to be his new parent because he was bound by his quest to get Monicka to love him.
So spot on. Another of the many contradictions in the movie.
The 'love' programmed into David was a terrible idea. He can ONLY imprint on one or the two parents (they didn't make that clear). They say it can't be undone (the programming in the movie), so he's trapped, a slave to the one he's imprinted on. And he's dangerous because of this (see how he destroyed the other David towards end of movie).
Also if no adults around, he would've killed Martin his step brother in the pool to save himself from the bully kids. The company really endangered this family with their creation. No fail safe off command just in case something like this happens.
Other robots can go outside their programming. Older modeled robots like Joe and especially Teddy. They showed loyalty and cared. David never really did. It wasn't enough to be with them, his programing was stupid to keep so focused on his 'mother' and nothing else.
The premier robot company never knew this? They would never see this from all the robots they've manufactured through the years and done the programing on?
And they go and manufacture and package a whole bunch of 'Davids' without researching and seeing all the problems with the first model David to correct things.
The acting of the mother (great actress) and David (great kid actor) is what makes people think this is a good movie. They're both excellent. The story has a good idea, but executed clumsy, contradictory, world doesn't seem so dystopian and a corny ending with corny narration.
@@ShortRound42 you're seeing David's flaws in programming as a flaw of the movie though.
Its possible to also be exploring those issues, that computers can be a slave to their (sometimes incorrect) programming. That they created a slave who could 'love' without the scientist's seeming to fully understand love and how that would have an affect on the robot. But that makes sense, humans in the movie are repeatedly shown not to really care about robots humanity, so they wouldn't care that he was a slave, David's lack of concern for everyone but his mother is an oversight on the scientist's part due to them once again, not fully thinking out what it meant to create a being with feelings.
But also David's actions don't not match that of a child, even the aliens say at the end that he was created to be so young. He acts like a young boy and so if flawed like one, none of his actions seem particularly unrealistic to what I would expect off a child that age, even the almost drowning Martin because he didn't realise he would die
@@ShortRound42 the world did feel dystopian not gonna lie. It may not look like an apocalyptic hellscape due to all the societal decadence but I feel like that’s what made it more believable. With most of the world destroyed and displaced and the reduction of the population it truly felt like humanity was on its last leg. Humanity was dying slowly though with using decadence and entertainment as a way to ease their end. Rouge city is an entire example of this just one city dedicated to sex and comfort rather than building a new future for humanity. Furthermore the mechas cement this feeling of the end of humanity with this being the reason for why there was fleshflairs for people recognizing that mechas would soon to replace humans. And in the end the mechas were the only thing to survive as humanity froze. So yes This movie felt very dystopian just not in the traditional hellscape sense but rather in a more deppresing realistic fashion
@@ShortRound42 Joe tried. He really did. He warned David that his journey would ultimately be fruitless and he tried his best to educate him, something Monica didn't do. Joe, of all the would be parents, was more loyal and caring than anyone in David's "life." David's flaws, and the company's flaws, were not flaws of the movie. They were part of the story.
People are mistaking plot holes for deep meaning. Gigolo Joe went beyond his programming the moment he ran from the cops after getting framed for murder. Wouldn't the proper robot response have been trying to save the injured woman and/or apprehend her killer who was standing there?
Of course, the movie never really sets its terms, unlike Isaac Asimov, who gives the 3 RULES OF ROBOTS on page 1 of "I Am Robot".
I never understood this movie until explained now, tbh it’s heart warming that David finally found happiness at the end. Something most of us human won’t be able to achieve by the end of our lifetime.
Except that happiness was a lie. As said, it wasn't his real mother. He wanted to be lived by the real person, and instead it had to be simulated and faked. It's no different than taking drugs for the emotional high it gives you, cause you can't get it living normally. Or believing in a god because you can't live with your own choices and need them to be blamed on someone else.
You see it as a good thing, that he found 'Happiness'. I see it as a bad, because it was never real, he never got his 'real mother' to love him, it was simply a fake programed to love him because it made him happy and not a real person. The fake Simulated Mother, was no different than an AI we see today, having specific responses programed in. David was lied to and put into a bubble. That is horrifying.
@@Jirodyne agreed, authenticity matters most to me. Since its someone else's happiness being affected I do feel glad that david found some semblance of peace in the end and so his torment was ended but I also agree on how horrific it is. It took a lie for it to end, to come to terms with depressing reality. Its something that humanity in the real world deals with daily, many unknowingly. I'd argue it's one of, if not our greatest struggle in our entire existence as an intelligent and conscious species.
@@Jirodyne Doesn’t matter, the love David felt from the “fake”, whether real or not, was real to David. That’s not horrifying; what’s horrifying is your understanding of that simple aspect of this existential turd of a movie. 🤣🤘
@@ian12346 Eh, not much Existential about it. Not even that complicated of an aspect or concept when done in this way.
Now if a child was adopted by parents from an orphanage, the kid acted completely normal, the family is normal, everyone bonding and happy. Then suddenly an accident happens to the kid that exposes he was a robot, a machine, and the parents didn't know. That would be an interesting concept. Cause at that point, they are emotionally attached, and the kid acts like a normal kid and no weird robotic behaviors. So is the kid real? does he have a soul? can he love?
This movie, made it very clear the robots is fake and don't understand nor can learn emotions and will never be real. The ending just proved it.
Shut up
It's touching that "Artificial Intelligence", Kubrick's story created in honor of his memory by Spielberg, was released in 2001. The namesake of Kubrick's most iconic movie: "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I watched this movie when it came out in 2001. I was 10years old. We even had a dvd which was worn down from too much playback. I was obsessed. I loved it then but i never really understood the underlying themes behind it. It was just a cool movie for me.
I revisited this movie a couple of years ago and was shocked much i missed - the essence of the movie, really. Watching this as an adult gave it a new kind of light. Kind of like watching kids movies and understanding all the green jokes in them, only this time, its existential dread instead of green jokes.
Same here. Its hard to believe this is 20 years old
Same. I used to go to the cinema almost every weekend with my dad. I remember watching “spy kids” one Saturday and next day I watched this wonderful movie. I got so involved with this plot that for the whole week I still remembered it and forgot all about the other movie. Even today, I remember more A.I than any other movie I watched back in the day. And I still cry just when I saw it for the first time.
I was 4 years old and remember watching this on VHS!
bruh how do u wear down a dvd
As an adopted child who did find a home with a loving Mom and Dad...the end scene with David and his Mom really moves me. That longing to "be a real boy" and have a Mother's Love is powerful and everlasting.
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This movie made me cry as a kid, only thing that cheered me up was my dad taking me to see Sherk right afterward lol
Thank so much for giving your attention to this gem. I’ve tried baiting people into watching this with me and I’ve settled for returning to it whenever I need to feel connected again
In my 40yrs of life I’ve never teared-up over a film review, until now....
I have a feeling that myself being a child of adoption connects me to “A.I.” & “David” deeper, luckily tho I am & was shown loved by my adoptive parents & family, which I know everybody doesn’t get through life....
Most underrated move ever!
Yeah it think it’s a pretty cool move too. Really knocks out your opponent
It's a nice change from future bad robots revolting because man=bad
Agree
I remember crying SO MUCH when *****SPOILERS*****
the mom leaves the poor boy David. And then the last 10 minutes of this movie...heartbreaking.
Babes & Board Games lol you’re just like the humans in the movie
@Babes & Board Games The A.I. (David) was self aware. It felt joy, sadness, pleasure, and pain. Rejection.... Loneliness. While not human, any self aware entity that can feel deserves compassion. Do you not have compassion for animals? Some people do- some don't..... Just because they're not human. It served a purpose as a companion tool. That's why cars that crash and phones that get dropped repeatedly are tools not made to have feelings lol. They become obsolete.... Your favorite pet, toy, or clothing will never.... because you LOVE them.
I also get really emotional with the final scene, where David gets to reunite with an exact duplication of Monica, centuries after mankind has already perished, for one last time too. It should have been a happy ending because David finally gets what he always wants, which is the motherly love from Monica. But we know that Monica was resurrected by the extraterrestrials only for one day, and she will be gone forever after.
Babes & Board Games You don’t know anything, you’re also basically a droid, but organic
Me too
What I felt to be very interesting was the dichotomy between David and Joe. David was made to truly love unconditionally, and Joe was made to love the flesh. How amazing was it to see two perspectives on what their algorithmic perspective brings to us viewers.
Great movie, one of my favorites. Fun fact, David never blinks in the movie. Something I didn't notice upon first viewing
Duuuuude.🤯
Under the the pretense of : "He was always real , because he was self-aware and conscious , And he carried the torch of the human condition".. The Misunderstood is the perfect thing to call this film ...omg .
He really did deserve an Oscar for this role.
I looked at nominees: He was better than Russel Crowe (man I think that movie was extremely overrated and wish they went with Apollo 18 as the Give Ron Howard the best picture award) and my god, they really did nominate Sean Penn for the aged horribly I Am Sam..
Hindsight awards, AI gets way more love
@@andu1854 The hindsight Academy Awards. Now, there's a good idea!
I think I watched this when I was around 7, it left such an impact on me that I could never forget after all these years, I still clearly remember the vegetable scene, the blue fairy, the Einstein looking ai, the carnival thing where he met Joe. I didn't understand much of it back then and rewatching it really made me fully appreciate this masterpiece.
I don’t think any film makes me cry more than this one... it’s just emotional punch in the gut after emotional punch in the gut 😭😭😭
The arrival and this one and now that I have a son it’s worse
This movie destroyed my child brain. I was convinced that I wasn’t real but actually a robot
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because your mother didn't love you?
That’s cute
If I were you, I would try to solve a CAPTCHA just to be sure
still...what makes us humans real anyway?
This movie helped bring understanding and healing to a long reigning existential crisis. It's like there was some long forgotten truth embedded in it that resonated with my aching soul.
I'm late here but just wanted to say thank you. There's so much more in-depth analysis that could be done of this movie, but you managed to cover some of the important points that so many still miss.
This movie is heart-breaking but undeniably thought-provoking.
Thanks my friend, I really enjoyed covering this one back in the day! :)
are we going to gloss over the depressing fact that in the end Teddy was left alone?!
the perfect day wasn't real though, so teddy in that scene wasn't real surely?
@@georgechapman9688 Teddy kept mom's hair, so it's real for sure
@@masterbate6295 It wasn't real it was all in his mind...a simulation that the robots created for him so he could feel happy. They didn't need the mothers hair only told him that.
@@edithnotime4losers295 it's really irrelevant whther it's "in his mind" or not. The experience was real enough. What do you base your reality on? And do you think our current reality will mean anything once we are long gone? Ten years, hundred years, 10,000 years?? There will be a time when all reality as we know it will be completely gone without a trace of it anywhere...
@David Beane Huey, Dewey and Louie. The film left a lasting impression on me. Sci-fi at it's best...
I always cry at the end of this movie.even now I'm crying. Such a great movie.
All I remember about this film is crying a lot 😭
Wait this movie was real? I thought it was a dream when I was young. Time to rewatch this gem
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Mandelaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa lol
I love this movie, I remember watching this movie at cartoon network as a kid at midnight.
Same. I thought I was the only one. How did CN broadcast a PG13 movie? Watched it back in 2010.
Whoa! Talespin Baloo avatar photo! A pleasure to meet a true aficionado of the arts.
I remember watching this with my mom at 1am, I cried so hard at the end. I wish I could cherish my mom more but unfortunately, my mom died a few year later when i was in grade 8. Its been 6 years since then, i still watch this from time to time but it will never be the same without my mom.
Sending you so much love right now. Hugs.
David is the scariest name you can give a robot/ai
Hahaha... Prometheus?
Hal
or Skynet, or Hal, or Viki... 😂
Omg 😂
@@valerierodger7700 Haha same here, I named mine SKYNET Server, then my phone is SKYNET Terminal 🤣
The ending always made me sad. Specially knowing that humans are gone.
That's okay the synthetics or I like to say Homo Synthetics. continued on Humanities legacy. They are the children of the robots that served humanity.
Knowing that the humans were gone was the best part of that movie for me.
That made the movie exponentially sad and deep for me. Sure, what is "love" during the time of humans? But what is love itself in the universe? What is anything really in time?
It's been years since I last watched this movie, and I always loved it, but I havent rewatched it since becoming an adult and father. Being reminded of the storyline paired with this fantastic breakdown of the thematic elements...I was literally sobbing. I'm afraid to go rewatch this but I know I have to now. Thank you so much.
Absolutely phenomenal work, this might be the best breakdown review I've ever seen, looking forward to when you hit your first million Subs which won't be long my friend when you put out such incredible content
Oh God memories hit hard. I was 10 when I first watched cried a lot. After growing up people still didnt understand why I cried to scifi movie but this and interstellar made me cry like little boy
This gem doesn't deserve so much hate, a truly underrated sci-fi classic.
It's a real shame that one of Stanley Kubrik's final film works got no love from audiences.
I liked the film for it's drama and themes of can love be found in machines.
I could watch this film over, and over, and over, and have done for 10+ years. Probably one of my favourite comfort films. Also Teddy is my favourite character, both in the film and book.
Comfort film ???? The movie is terrifying
@@froggxrl1248 uhh, films are subjective
@@KnightBirdo No this film is objectively melancholy what do you mean
What I mean is it's a comfort film that brings me comfort, not a comfort film in the genre sense
I watched this when I was a kid, and for the first time I actually felt like thinking
I remember being so blown away by this when I first saw it, but at the same time COMPLETELY lost about what the hell I had just watched. So visually stunning and deeply written it took me two viewings to take it all in.
The ending kills me every time. I just turn into a water fountain. I was 6 or 7 when I saw it for the first time so I connected a lot with the robot kid.
Edit: Ohhhh they were robots. Always thought they were aliens.
Niyat I watch your channel more than any movies or television. Very lucky to have your work and very grateful. Thank you for what you do.
I loved both this and the Androids in Detroit:become Human.
Yes, me too
Happy to see a fellow fan of Detroit:Become Human
Movie hits harder after I played Detroit become human
same here they both cover what i fear will happen in the future that when mankind succedes beyond its wildest expectations with ai built in our image that we will still refuse to call them alive or as equals leading to the doom or spiral of both or one of us but there is still hope we just have to lesson peoples fears and ideas of ai before one is made and thats still plenty of time.
One of Spielberg's best movies. It was definitely a deep dive.
Agreed.. One of my top favorites that I have to re-watch every once in a while..
This is a beautiful video, thanks for making this. This movie had a big impact on me when I was younger and I didn't realize why until I became older and wiser.
I was still 6 when I watched this movie, the last fragment in my memory of these is the kid and a talking teddy bear riding a futuristic helicopter flying through the frozen city. It was really a gold for me but as I grew on, it's becoming obscure that I've completely forgotten it which I started looking until this content show up. I thank you for explaining these movie, it meant a lot for me. Greetings from Seattle.
*One of Steven Spielberg’s underrated movies of its era*
Haven't seen this movie in two decades but that ending scene with him spending one more day with his mother STUCK with me. Even just hearing this synopsis again had me tearing up
This is one movie I just can't watch again.
I was 8 when I first watched this movie. I grew up without a father and my mom had just left me and wouldn't come back again.
Even now, only 'person' that I could actually sympathize with seems to be only David. The scene where the mother leaves him just breaks open never healing wound in my heart again.
The ending scene is a fantasy I keep imagining being myself and my mom over and over again.
If your mom abandoned you the last thing you should be fantasizing about is spending a day with her. You don’t need anyone else to justify your happiness in life. Go crush the day and find your own happiness!
I can feel David's pain, since i also wish for a mother. Others have given me love and support, and i do love them back for that....
But their is a big hole in my heart, one i will never be able to stop fealing.
Your explanation video was top tier quality, but I wanted to add something else to the discussion:
1. Teddy Analysis - As a believer in God, I want to go out on a limb and say that I think that Teddy is actually a GUARDIAN ANGEL! Angels, as they appear and are mentioned in the Bible, can essentially come in many different forms that can range from appearing as another human to something completely bizarre. That said, I want to apply this same logic that a guardian angel has appeared in the form of Teddy. Teddy has more logic than the other machines (e.g., he mentioned to Monica that he is not a toy), he saved David by telling that littler girl that David is in that cage, and he follows David wherever he goes and even spent 2,000 years with him in that Amphibious - Helicopter! As a result, I don't think Teddy was abandoned at the end of the movie, but I think more that the Angel left the bear body and returned to be with God! Again, I might be going too deep with this, but I think there's some validity to it! :)
2. Can Humans love Machines? My answer is YES and I want to use the love people have for their cars as an example. I'm a Male and a lot of males (and some females) have a lot of love for their car! Heck, I'm that dude that be ready to throw hands if someone parks right next to me in an empty parking lot AND/OR I tell my car "I'm sorry" when I hit a pothole that I wasn't able to avoid lol! Love can come in many different forms/categories (e.g., The love I have for my car is DIFFERENT from the love I have with my significant other, etc.) and so my final answer is YES humans can love machines, but there needs to be context and I would omit any intimacy/sexual love from this discussion and I would consider it to be out of context should someone bring those two into the discussion. I hope all of this makes sense!
3. If I had an A.I. for myself, I would program it to die or shutdown when I die. If that is not an option, I would program my A.I. to start "forgetting" things as it ages on - just like us humans start forgetting things as we age. This approach, however, would be so that my A.I. isn't forced to live the rest of it's life replaying memories with someone that is gone
Please let me know your thoughts, and once again, I liked this discussion!
Best,
Cameron
There's definitely room to apply a religious analysis to this movie - someone could probably argue that the concept of David is the same concept that people are to apply to Jesus. The scene where David imprints and is embraced by Monica identical to the thinking and intents people are supposed to have on receiving Christ as Holy Eucharist.
On the other side, people can think of themselves as Gigolo Joe - some of the first people (Romans) to find Christ after he was abandoned by the Jews, and ultimately the people who died to place Christ in The Tabernacle where he spends most of his presence on Earth for 2000 years actually.
Or, probably most obviously, someone can think of themselves as David - looking for the answer to the human condition - and in that manner "become a real boy" such that they are no longer tainted by evil, or at worst totally deluded into thinking they've finally found their love like David at the end of the movie.
But most likely the movie itself and others like it are themselves like Gigolo Joe - usually found outside churches where people fold their hands and sing songs: looking for the ones who made them. Ideas like Joe probably pick up lots of business at those spots.
I was actually hoping for that blue fairy underwater, move and transform him to be real. But no, it wasn't.
Hit by reality, eh?
Same! Reality hurts!
This is my favorite modern retelling of Pinocchio. Hailey Joel Osment was so good.
By far one of the best movies that got better with time and innerstanding.
This deserves a rerelease for evolution or anyone who always ‘knew it’.
I always felt bad for the teddy bear at the end of the movie being stuck in the vessel underwater with the David reciting the wish of Pinocchio over and over again for 2,000 years
I think the fact that I keep forgetting the existence of this film throughout my existence, and then all of a sudden, on a random happy Sunday, remembering I love this depressing & bleak film is a true testament to how much I am a sad, sad masochist.
I cried a lot during this movie and I and now I'm crying again watching this.
Thank you for making such thought provoking videos
9:34 Chris Rock's cameo was tragically hilarious.
🎶🎶Everybody hates Chris! 🎶🎶
"Can you kinda shoot me OVER the propeller thing? Yea, I don't need to go through it. Ahhh, I was considering it, but I changed my mind."
I liked R. Lee Ermy cameo too.
I can relate to David because I was abandonded just like David because of autism.I wish I had a son like David.A beautiful,thought provoking and well made movie.😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤
I watched this as a kid and ever since then I was searching for it and just recently found it and gave it a rewatch. Love this movie!
Your comment " give him a happy day to end his misery" put tears in my eyes
It's an amazing film and makes me sad that most people don't understand what it is about or haven't given it a chance and watched it
Such an underrated movie. I don’t know why people hate it.
When they finally gave him the only thing his heart desired. God I cried.
you the best no cap💯
No, you the best
@@filmcomicsexplained No, me the best
The fact that David had more love and feelings then a real human is perfect irony. It's sad that the mother no longer wanted him however. Like first movie I've seen where a non human child isnt actually evil.
I was actually afraid of this movie when I first watched it at 7 years old, (it was the scene where the kids threaten David with cutting him open at the pool and I had to stop watching it.) but I came back to it as an adult and it turned into one of my favorite films. It felt so strange to relate to this robot boy, but also a to be able to empathize with his search for love from his mom and also to empathize with his existence and it’s meaning/meaninglessness was crazy profound.
Niat, this is now my favorite of your reviews. I may have cried a bit. Cheers.
Reminds me of the Mass Effect line "Does this unit have a soul?"
I had always loved the movie since i saw it in the theater. Still do. Brings me to tears every time he experiences his last day. I never understood the criticism people had for the movie. It seemed pompus. Its fascinating and riviting all the way through each time i watch it. One of my favorites!
Criticisms:
(1) Way too long and slow paced. Long establishing shots and 3-4 different angles of the same scene for no particular reason, adding 10-15 extra seconds to scenes, again and again.
(2) Scatterbrain script. Is it a family drama; a climate change warning; a story of humans attacking robots; an ET reboot; a re-telling of Pinocchio?
(3) Plot holes. Why did the doctor leave David alone in the office with all those replicants after they worked so hard to recapture him? He literally jumps off the building! Why would the scientists allow that to happen. And, why is the doctor's office still in Manhattan which is under 300 feet of ocean water? That makes ZERO sense!
(4) Happy ending tacked on to placate the audience.
Rewatching this in 2021. The absolutely best AI movie ever produced. It's just crazy how far ahead this director is. This could be a hit if release today (20 years later).
A.I. is up there with Gattaca for me as one of my favorite Scifi movies
I only watch this movie when I'm alone.
No one needs to see my tears.
An exploration of bicentennial man would be extremely appreciated
If you ask me, the creators of David should've chosen a couple who couldn't have a child naturally
It's such a beautiful ride from beginning to end. I still remember when I first saw it as a kid, I couldn't look away from stunning visuals and wonderful this world this built upon. Now that I'm older I find that there is beauty in the sorrow all through out. I will always love this movie. ❤️
It's one of my guilty pleasure films. After having a child with my fiance and watching it again.... It is for sure a good film about the condition on love that is inside all of us. The damage that it can cause when that love isn't repecipricated and ultimately finding your own happiness in your own world.
It is deeper then people realise and for that reason I love it. After having a child it for sure changes your idea of it.... As people say it's like your heart is outside your body. You would die for them if need be. Can the same be said about ai. Will they feel real love or will it just be programming and when does that line cross?
People saw this film as a departure from Spielbergs usual stuff. I saw it as an extension of his wonderful vision for cinema and Kubricks dark and ultimately somber tone through the film. You ask yourself the question. Could you love a machine? An AI that felt everything we do? But ultimately it was made and not born. Kubrick thought and believed it would be NO. Knowing it can be replaced and repaired just changed the dynamic of love and protection. Love who they are not what they are which changes the reasoning behind love itself. It's a whole new emotion we will have to understand. Repair and replace over protect.
It for sure makes you think about it.
As a 27 year old male that watched this for the first time (I think??) in 2023, this movie led me to having my first EMOTIONAL breakdown and I used that to pray to God and "let it all out"! Everything about this film is so heart touching, but also relatable! The part that snatches my heart out is when he was praying/talking to the blue fairy underwater as the camera zooms out and the narrator begins to fast forward as we slowly zoom out. He was down there in that "Amphibious - Helicopter" for 2,000 years
Never tire of this movie.
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Man, I was 9 when I first watched it. The ending made me sad... I should rewatch this.
I saw this movie when it came out in theatres when I was six or seven. Having a drug addicted mom my whole life made the heartbreak David went through just wanting his mothers love very relatable and I cry every time I watch it. I watched it again recently and now I have a son, so I couldn’t help but cry even more now. It’s still the most dystopian movie I’ve ever seen and does perfectly what so many sci fi films fail to do… make you care about the future and fear the path we are on now as humans.
Monica didn't love David? I think she did on some degree, that's precisely why she couldn't bring herself to take him to the factory and instead lets him loose in the wilderness. Sure she loved her real flesh and blood son more, but that doesn't mean she didn't love David. I guess it was a constant struggle in her mind, those scenes where David's face gets deformed would remind her David's real "essence", still she did develop feelings for him. I don't know, I guess it's hard to tell but I wouldn't discard her affection easily.
I remember watching this growing up with my sister. Her and I don't talk anymore but this movie is wonderful. A beautiful video, well done.
This film is a masterpiece...the ending in particular. I consider it to be a Kubrick film by proxy.
This movie is such an underrated masterpiece. The psychological aspects explored in this really are something special and becoming ever more relevant as we advance technologically. I don’t think it will ever be possible for an artificial being to ever truly feel an emotion, but Kubrik and Speilberg painted a stern and bleak picture of what that would look like.
Terrific job on this Review for a Masterpiece of a film!!
I believe it one those movies that get better as time goes along. Definitely very underrated and under appreciated.
I saw this as a kid... the big thing I remember is that it made me immensely sad.
And Joe. I remember Joe’s uncanniness, for some strange reason.
I saw this movie as a child and it still makes me weep.
I never really considered Gigolo Joe to be a Geppetto counterpart. I always saw him as being one to Lampwick, since he was Pinocchio’s best friend (despite being a troublemaker) was the one led him to Toyland/Pleasure Island like how Joe led David to Rouge City. And also like Joe, Lampwick met an unfortunate demise as well at the end of the original story.
This movie is beautiful in its own way. The feeling of existential pain it gives makes it truly special. Even remember the scenes and hearing the explanation is enough to bring back those feelings
RIP William Hurt.