What I believe to be an accurate representation of what's to come in the future!
Steven Spielberg directing a project originally meant for Stanley Kubrick is, for some film lovers, an idea of hell. However I think the story absolutely found the right director, who, despite being famous for over-sentimentality, takes this futuristic fairy tale (Essentially just updated "Pinocchio") and makes it personal and relatable.
This by far is Spielberg's worst movie. The concept of artificial intelligence evolving and starting to have feelings and emotions is ridiculous.
I am a big fan of Spielberg's work and though nowadays he is often criticised for his shamelessly tear-jerking sentimentalism, I've never seen that as a problem. It's just a sign of the times, I guess, people leaning towards dark, disturbing, gritty movies and being way too harsh with emotionally charged ones.
A young mechanical boy (David) is "bought" to an American family to replace their son who is about to die. Unexpectedly, their real son is healed from his problem and the family ends up having two young boys.
The movie is set in the future where artificial intelligence is evolving at such a rate that the human population are beginning to get concerned about the ethical implications of substituting humans for robots and what role humans will play (if any) in the future. Integrating robots into society started as a means for humans to avoid doing mundane jobs - a convenience.
Artificial Intelligence is one of the greatest science fiction films I have ever seen. It is just that good.
I don't know how to start talking about this movie. In fact, it is so beautifully conceived and directed hat it becomes a lot difficult for me to follow an oriented and logical way to describe how deeply it touched me.
'A.I.