They DIDN'T work on the project together. Kubrick was like 'Steven, finish this for me' *dies*.
Steven's like "uh, shit." and finishes it alone.
And I can see why you didn't like the movie, it flew right over your head ;)
They created him to love because there were laws against having more than a certain amount of children so that we didn't continue swelling as a population from people who still wanted lots of kids. It was a prototype to see how it would react and they gave it to this family because their real son was in a coma of some sort.
The mother had a lot of moral obligations to it as seen by the fact that she didn't return it to the company. She loved him a lot but knew that she couldn't keep him. She knew he would be destroyed if she returned him.
I think a large point of the story was that this robot really DID love his family and was so desperate to please them he would go beyond the barriers of his programming and anything a human would do to be able to be loved by them. He truly believed that he could become human. And as the audience knows this is impossible it's supposed to tug on heart strings I suppose, as he gets so close to his dream but does not survive to realize it.
The ending was a little weird, I admit. I'm not sure if they were aliens or super-advanced androids. Whoever they are they grant him his wish in part, at least. Which, to the audience who has made an emotional investment into his quest of being human gets the "oh god, he finally made it, look how happy he is." and then another whammy when they find out it can't last.
I didn't cry, but the person I was with did and I know why.
Bicentenial man was good, yes. I love Robin Williams.
Re: True, but
Kubrick was like 'Steven, finish this for me' *dies*.
Steven's like "uh, shit." and finishes it alone.
And I can see why you didn't like the movie, it flew right over your head ;)
They created him to love because there were laws against having more than a certain amount of children so that we didn't continue swelling as a population from people who still wanted lots of kids. It was a prototype to see how it would react and they gave it to this family because their real son was in a coma of some sort.
The mother had a lot of moral obligations to it as seen by the fact that she didn't return it to the company. She loved him a lot but knew that she couldn't keep him. She knew he would be destroyed if she returned him.
I think a large point of the story was that this robot really DID love his family and was so desperate to please them he would go beyond the barriers of his programming and anything a human would do to be able to be loved by them. He truly believed that he could become human. And as the audience knows this is impossible it's supposed to tug on heart strings I suppose, as he gets so close to his dream but does not survive to realize it.
The ending was a little weird, I admit. I'm not sure if they were aliens or super-advanced androids. Whoever they are they grant him his wish in part, at least. Which, to the audience who has made an emotional investment into his quest of being human gets the "oh god, he finally made it, look how happy he is." and then another whammy when they find out it can't last.
I didn't cry, but the person I was with did and I know why.
Bicentenial man was good, yes. I love Robin Williams.