A.I. Artificial Intelligence. [16]

Cybertronics is a company that creates humanish robots, called Mechas. They try to create a childlike robot who can love, the only question about it is, will it be loved back? Henry and Monica’s son has been in “suspended animation,” which is sort of a frozen state until they find a cure for his illness. Henry brings David home, the first of his kind, a child robot who can love. These child mechas are only good for one try; what that means is that once you set them to love you, the wont love anyone else, you’ll be imprinted on them forever. So if you ever change your mind about them and send them back, they’ll have to be destroyed because they’re no good anymore.

Monica sets David to love her, but once her real son comes home she doesn’t care for him as much, not like she even did in the first place. All David wants is for her to love him back, so whenever Martin, Monica’s real son, puts him on “special missions” that get him in trouble he goes for them anyway because Martin says it’ll make mommy love him. The day comes when Monica starts to wonder if her family is safe around David, and dumps him in a forest. David, inspired by the story of Pinocchio, starts to seek the Blue Fairy so she can make him a real boy and he can go home.

David goes through a grand adventure, but doesn’t find such a person. It’s such a sad movie, left me crying like a baby. The ending is just beautiful but I find myself wishing that David would have had more happiness. Most humans were against the robots, jealous that once they die the mechas will still be around.  David ends up wishing and wishing for more than 2000 years to become a real boy, will his wish ever come true?