A.I.'s MOST Difficult Critiques and Questions

Cheers for your answers!

4. I don't understand, do you mean: because the the engineers are helping to fix David, he does not feel the pain? Surely this does not make any sense, as even if someone operates on you to "fix" you, it can still hurt.
10. I thought that it was likely something to do with how we are commercialising society - even information is coming at a cost.
12. But Hobby distinctly says that they are at the Cybertronics of New Jersey at the beginning, so why did they change location?

I've responded to your other thread (Y)

9. A child robot has to start somewhere. Robots were more for help around the house, or sexual activities.

In other words, you are frustrated because you do not know the answers to these questions. It is ok. And no, certainly #1, #4, #5, #6, #8, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #20 were not answered by the film. I don't believe that you have watched the film, have you?

Your answer is beyond the realms of argument, so I'll accept it. Have a go at the other 19. You are on a forum devoted to discussing A.I., don't get the ass just because you can't defend certain questions to do with the film. A.I. is one of my favourite films, but that does not mean it is exempt from any criticism (or what I am trying to find out is, which were intentional by the director and what were their meanings).

David is a rogue mecha which is illegal if I remember correctly (or at least is the means by which The Flesh Fair are allowed to operate on you). But further, David stole a police amphibicopter back at Rogue City. The only conclusion that I have come to is that either the police thought David was a real boy, OR the film was metaphorically suggesting that David was not picked up by the magnet because he has become more than mecha (metal), but actually orga.

I have often thought about that as being the solution, but the more that I think about it I'm afraid I don't sit well with that proposition. It was only by chance that David was abandoned. The circumstances that led to David's exclusion from his family was an accumulation of unlikey events. Consider when his Damage Avoidance System was activated. This was not activated in intent of Martin being almost drowned, so that Henry and Monica would have an excuse to get rid of David. No, far from it, what actually happened was that the unfortunate circumstances (which was not in any way planned by Cybertronics or Henry and Monica) led to Henry convincing Monica that they need to get rid of David. I would perhaps accept that Henry, being an employee of Cybertronics, was perhaps in on the plan of getting rid of David (so that he would embark on a quest), but the decision was still up to Monica (and so she could have still decided to have kept him). Anyways, when she is driving David to his expulsion, she hastily decided to not have him returned to cybertronics, but to abandon him instead. Therefore David's abandonment was by sheer chance, any other circumstances could have led to David being either returned to Cybertronics and deactivated, or just not left the family home at all.

All that Dr. Hobby explained was that they were observing David from afar, and that they only intervened at Dr. Know. So my question very much still stands unfortunately. I like the idea and I think that it seems very plausible at first glance, but unfortunately it seems to raise more questions that it answers... =/

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Branching of your idea: I guess they were testing to see if David would go to the end of the world (Manhattan) to fulfil his programming. Or in other words, David's love for Monica is so strong that he would *literally* go to the end of the world to find her.

I understand that David is asserting his humanity, but why does Teddy (who proposedly helped David write these letters) allow such words to be said about himself? Further, why is Monica oblivious, such that she calls the letters "beautiful", disregarding David's very clear schizophrenia, lol!

The letters say

“DEAR MOMMY, HOW ARE YOU REALLY, DO YOU LOVE ME AS MUCH”
“DEAR MOMMY TEDDY IS HELPING ME WRITE TO YOU I LOVE YOU AND TEDDY”
“DEAR MOMMY I LOVE YOU AND HENRY AND THE SUN IS SHINING”
“DEAR MOMMY GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU”
“DEAR MOMMY I’M REALLY OUR SON AND I HATE TEDDY HE IS NOT REAL LIKE”
“DEAR MOMMY I’M YOUR LITTLE BOY AND SO IS MARTIN BUT NOT TEDDY”

It is annoying but I think that I will have to accept this, in the same sense that I do not know the physics of the amphibicopter in the other question =/ Ta