Analysis of A.I.

Analysis of A.I.

A.I was projected for the first time on screen on 24th October 2001 in

France. Steven Spielberg took over the project cover based on a short

story “Super Toys Last All Summer Long” by science fiction author

Brian Aldiss, from the late Stanley Kubrick, who had been trying to

get the film made for twenty years. It was reportedly Kubrick’s dying

wish that Spielberg made the film.

There were mixed feelings on A.I, some people liked the film and other

didn’t, mainly because it became too much like a fairy tale in the

second part of the film. The general feeling was that it was of two

definite halves. It started as a sci-fi and then became a fairy tale

in the second part.

Here are some examples of why A.I was not successful from the point of

view of someone who did not like the film.

Here a critic complains about the visual effects of the film which

have been reused:-

“Sadly, one of them, involving a moon shaped craft used to harvest

“lost boy” robots in a dark forest, is recycled (much like the

cast-off robots scrounging

for spare parts) from his own E.T... Sadly again, the other visually

majestic moment is an apocalyptic underwater city scene that appears

to have been

cribbed from, of all things, Waterworld.”

The critic complains about the moon shaped aircraft visual effect has

been used again in A.I the same as it was in Steven Spielberg’s own

film E.T... He thinks this is bad, as a director, to use the same

idea in two different films and he complains on how his ideas should

be new and fresh for each new film. The critic further comments on

how Spielberg also uses other visual effe...

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...ut in the Flesh Fair.

At the end David achieves unique status in two ways. They are:-

He being the only robot looking like a human and actually had

experienced living with them, and

He is the only robot of his kind again.

A.I has a happy ending because like humans David had held on to his

dream (that his mother would love him like a normal son) and in the

end it seems she did, but in real life, people do not always achieve

their dreams.

In my opinion does do justice to the original ideas up to a point, but

loses some of its scientific debate by the fairy story aspect. We

don’t really know how a robot would react with human emotions and what

it would make of, or its reaction to, having human emotions. At the

moment it is just science fiction but it could become a reality in the

future; a flat fact!