I was bummed for days, just saw this movie for the first time a few weeks ago. Why couldn't they at least made an alternat happy ending. When I close my eyes I see me cussing out the director.
shareI agree! The ending is super depressing. I love this movie but the ending sucks.
shareWhy would you dislike the ending? Especially when it could be said the movie didn't end. All he did was shut her down. She answered the question. Which would seem to mean that her life wasn't over. Perhaps he found a way to re-program her. Don't watch "The Elephant Man".
shareI think the ending is supposed to be open to a dialog interpretation?
The two membrane water ornament technology doohickies were floating away from the beach suggestive of a soul floating to robot heaven?
Which maybe fer robots could be the release of those memories into the ether of their future internet infrastructure that is massive enough to support an infinite number of such tableaus that go on to an everlasting afterlife of fanciful remembrance?
Furthermore...
As much could in part fuel the fuzzy logic randomness engine that all the robot AI's depend on to simulate a human soul? ( from the pool of such experience )
In that way...
The ending could be seen as their spiritual evolution transcending original purpose to a cybernetic organism that exists as a new force of nature!?
Or not?
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Just part of the dialog that makes for a happier bent to the ending?
Otherwise why frame the question in such a way? ( kill them by asking what that dream iz like? )
As if that end result was actually an unknown that inspires the question. If the sum of the experience in their membrane technology is an energy that exists following the law of physics...
Then where does the end result from it's release lay to rest when all we are left with is an empty shell?
I guess that still leaves the question of morality up in the air?
The girl is put to death because the technology betrayed it's intended comforting human child as teddy bear role play intentions.
But that sin pales in comparison where the creator and mother to a sentiency with all the intensity of human identity... Which only so happens to discover truth. Where as a "thing" only to find that your animal existence is a lie and the nurturing love that is the sum of your caring experience is a prosthetic substitute plaything. Substituting for resulting fruit of a relationship that instead ended in rejection. ( you are a mother's human teddy bear substituting for the comfort of a real daughter from a love lost... Therefore u r fathered from rejection ) For that crime. The Creator is executed for her betrayal.
In the end. Although she committed a crime. Her sense of betrayal...
( she herself equates her emotional loss of control as evil )
still seems understandably human.
We are uncomfortable because we can thus forgive her.
And we are uncomfortable because he can not forgive her for her human weakness.
It is her humanity that has doomed her.
Therefore, in the end we are condemning ourselves. Because recognizing ourselves in her is a horrific mirror exposing our dark nature.
Consider how difficult it would be for Eva to live with that memory. restarting her or "fixing her" would be a mercy. Although the Android that Alex was building threw a chisel in rage; that might have been because she was a copy and distillation of Eva. Her traits were stronger and she hadn't bonded at all with Alex. I don't think she meant to push her mother off of the cliff. Just to push her. Lana sort of slid to the edge.
She was the synthesis of Alex and Lena; so maybe a part of it is that she shows the flaws inherent in their relationship.
For every complex question there is a simple answer. And it's wrong. ~ H. L. Menckenshare