David is a one of a kind Mecha (mechanical robot) that is programmed to love just like a real boy would. A family adopts him with a terminally ill child and it soon becomes clear that he “loves” his mother. Because he is ageless and immortal, he becomes interested in death, and asks his mother when she thinks she will die, which is 50 years. Martin is eventually cured and taken out of his cryogenic state and he then lives with David as a “brother”. What the mother perceives is competition between the David and Martin is actually David imitating Martin’s actions because of his desire to become a real boy. Monica then abandons David, leaving him to believe that she did so because he was not a real boy. He then makes it his mission to find the Blue Fairy from the Pinocchio fairytale, which he believes can turn him into an Orgo (organic person). On his journey we see many ways that humans discriminate and show poor treatment to robots. The audience does not want to hurt David because he looks so real. This brings to point man and technology and how humans control robots now, but in thousands of years synthetic alien type structures have control of the world and humans are nonexistent.
I thought this was a very interesting movie and directly correlated what we have been talking about for the last few weeks. Throughout the movie, I noticed that I kept seeing David as a human, and I needed to remind myself multiple times that he was a robot with simulated emotions. It seemed like David was experiencing real emotions, but according to Searle robots cannot be jealous, like David was about Martin. The topic of “realness” was extremely relevant throughout the movie. After Monica left David, he spent his entire life trying to find the Blue Fairy, and once he did he looked at her for thousands of years. David felt he would never be Monica’s son unless he was a real boy.
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