no spare parts?
couldn't they buy some spare parts (arms, legs, etc)
and if he could live with only his head, why couldn't she? they made it seem like she would die without a "body transplant"
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Leaps of logic to suit the plot is called bad storytelling. The Giving Tree takes place in a different kind of universe, where the actions are believeable.
On another note: The Giving Tree is a book with a repugnant moral message.
I think you (like a lot of people) are misinterpreting The Giving Tree. I don't believe we are supposed to think the "boy" was good to the tree.
In this movie, it is more ambiguous. Since the filmmaker said it was based on The Giving Tree, I think he may have misinterpreted that story as well, or decided to change some aspects which made it rather different.
For instance, here the "boy" (the female robot) is kind to the "tree" (the librarian robot) in a number of ways. She invites him to come with her, introduces him to music and a social circle, drives him to and from work, looks at him lovingly and makes gestures of love like the little animals. She also resists the idea of him giving parts of himself to her, especially firmly with the leg--she is not conscious to weigh in on the torso situation.
There is some suspicion throughout (at least there was for me) that she is perhaps kind of scamming him, like Locke's father on LOST. But I think that is dispelled by how she takes his head with her at the end.
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