slyrider16 said:... it matters that robots have reached the point where they’re talking and retelling fairy tales on their own. They're an extension, the next phase of the human race.
Or maybe look at it this way—though this might just be my biased, terrified perspective.
It's a heavy realization for me that
a) that movie actually made me cry.
b) I feel for all the oppressed and terrorized groups—Native Americans, Black Americans, Mexicans,
Jews, anyone persecuted in general.
c) In those supposed "mechanical" people, I see humanity, whereas the
dehumanized remnants of "humans"—the so-called "human race"—gather in arenas to
violently kill or watch others get slaughtered
(supposed non-humans).
d) I don't see humans evolving into machines and then back into better versions of themselves. Instead, I see a dehumanization that should serve as
a warning to humanity to wake up.
I'm reading that tons of Americans would probably prefer watching live executions as a more advanced, "modern" form of entertainment, because things like Rollerball, hockey, football,
MMA, wrestling, etc.—basically gladiators—are already getting boring. No blood, no smell of burning flesh, no eyes evaporating from an electric chair, no suffering intense enough.
Grab some popcorn and enjoy an all-night show of "let's burn people" or hunting down whoever we can on the streets...
That's why for me, an A.I. film is really about humans, not about mechanical people/mechs,
just like how any space adventure or alien flick is primarily about us.