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Why are so many of you missing the point?

posted 11 years ago by tim-stein
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I have read so many different situations and posits on this board, yet it seems nobody has hit the nail on the head concerning this movie. The entire thing is a metaphor. It's not religious, anti-religious, pro machine nor anti-machine.

The movie is about equal rights and more importantly, tolerance. Simple as that. Andrew was accepted as long as he was subserviant, was property, did as others wanted. The problems began once it was discovered that Andrew had a kernel of sentience. Acceptance was slow to come, but come it did. However it DID take 200 years to finally be accepted as human. Additionally, the person who delivered the news happened to be an "African-American" woman. Now how many of you are able to see the connection I just laid out without being too blunt and calling it what it is?

[–] caseyrook 10 years ago

I saw that right away. Same exact point of iRobot and to an extent AI:Artifical Intelligence. How human do you have to act before your seen as human?

I saw this somewhere else but someone said that this movie, whether or not it was intentional, could be seen as propanganda or likened to a movie for gay marriage. I see where theyre coming from since Andrew wasnt legally married until the very end.

But this is almost exactly what you said. The movie is about equal rights.

[–] legendlength 10 years ago

Sure it is about equal rights. But on a completely different level it is about great cinematography and atmosphere (IMO).

[–] always_keep_fighting 8 years ago

Yes, everyone who doesn't see this movie the same way you do is wrong. God, I wish somebody would just stick the race card back in the deck.