A i artificial intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg is a really interesting science fiction movie that I first watched as a teenager. It was one of those rare movies that left a big impression on me. The first time I watched it, it got me thinking about personhood and the difference between artificial and not real. This time around, I noticed that it had a pronounced antinatalist theme. If you've never seen it, it's about a robot boy named David who goes on a journey to become human Here are my own thoughts, spoiler-free: I didn't like it. In fact, I don't know if I'd like it even if Kubrick directed it. It ought to be a thought-provoking, meditative experience on the ethics of A.I. and instead it's a loud and overly long identity crisis. Is it an introspective drama? Is it a Mad Max-style western? Is it an allegorical fairy tale? I don't know, and I don't think Spielberg knows either. It's bereft of tone and meaning. 4/10. I see why my parents walked DOI: 10.26818/adoptionculture.6.1.0182 URL : https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.26818/adoptionculture.6.1.0182 thanks in advance. Why In my opinion, it is a truly phenomenal film, and I was in tears by the end. Cathartic, emotional, metaphysical, existential, a Pinnochio fairy tale of future. The cinematography is breathtaking. The acting is amazing. The special effects hold up today. The much-maligned ending is actually very thought provoking once you realize that it was Kubrick's idea all along (in the original concepts he came up with) - the so-called "aliens", or spindly beings, were actually robots of the future