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Weren't They Both Androids?

posted 9 years ago by victor-200
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I think the 'Castle' fellow was the only actual human being (along with the woman reporter, Joy Andrews).

I had my suspicions about the reporter, Joy Andrews. Till the very closing scene. She's taken a pregnancy test? The look on her face, kind of a hint, that she's tested positive?

This would have to mean, that the artificial implant that Adam/David, tossed into her lap, was also an artificial insemination device? Also this could have explained why Adam/David asked her those questions about "temperature?" Meaning a defrosted sample was contained in the implant?

In any case. The movie doesn't seem to make much of a point. Unless it is to show how shallow people are, that we'll accept an android as a substitute for a real human being, and be completely satisfied. As long as we're not told that it's an android.

Also, it's incorrect to say that the David/Adam character was a robot or an android. At the end of the movie, during the scene in which Adam/David is extracting the CPU from the brain. You can see that the creature is made out of organic material. There is real flesh and real organs surrounding the CPU/WIFI modem, implanted in the head. The correct term would be, in that case, CYBORG. A cybernetic organism.

Note, that the name 'Castle' is also a term in chess strategy.

Discuss. Serious answers only please. Thanks in advance.

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[–] jadenedaj-27442 9 years ago

Yeah.. I think what happened was (the real) David put the semen into the fake David (the sex robot), so he could knock up Joy, because he had feelings for her, its the only logical answer I can come up with, like why wouldn't they of used non-viable semen in the test otherwise- Castle said he didn't care what happened to her after, so I am pretty sure he didn't know about the sperm.. Maybe, the ending went a bit silly really.

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[–] Technomage001 8 years ago

The only thing I could say is that it could have been synthetic materials that appeared to be organic. But hard to tell in such a short scene.

[–] skelk 8 years ago

The thing he tossed in her lap was actually the same artificial penile implant that modern day surgeons use to treat people with erectile disfunction (it gets inserted inside the penis and then the circle allows it to be pumped up). It wouldn't serve to inject semen, that would have been another device altogether.

[–] bullard2788 8 years ago

Dude that would explain so much more! So I was so confused on the bathroom scene. Why was he creeping around watching porn and the comments about reverse cowgirl. At first I thought this was a explanation for the twist. But one line really bothered me. "I Know you don't have a butthole..", this really has to confirm that Adam was also an android and so was David.

[–] padzok 7 years ago

"I Know you don't have a butthole..", this really has to confirm that Adam was also an android and so was David.

That's just a false memory implanted into the actual android's programming.

He has other false memories: playing the first game of chess with (what he thinks is) an android; being recruited by Castle; graduating at school/university, etc.

One false memory is of building the "android". Assuming the dark-haired one is human, then he was never built by the blond. But the blond's false memories include memories of what the dark-haired one looked like while being assembled, including lacking a butt-hole.

In addition, we know that the dark-haired one could control the blond one in real-time. At one stage, he took away the ability to play chess; at another, he stopped the blond banging on the door to remonstrate about spying on the woman.

So the dark-haired one may have deliberately programmed the blond to make the butthole comment. (This suggestion only works if it was said in front of the woman, of course; I can't be bothered to check that).