A.I. Artificial Intelligence was a
lucky find for me. I’m pretty sure I just went to the theater with my family
and picked it off the board (Don’t quote me on that though. I may be
mistaken.). Either way, though, I saw this movie and I loved it. It’s kind of
dark and, unless you aren’t human, it will bring you to tears in the end. This
is not a personal opinion either. When I was leaving the theater I caught just
about everyone that went by me to leave wiping tears off their faces.
David, Haley Joel Osment, is a
little boy. But he’s only not like other little boys in one way. He’s
mechanical, as the humans put it. But he still feels pain and sorrow and even
love, love for his Mommy, Monica (Frances O’Connor). After some twists at home
David finds himself abandoned and on a search. He’s searching for an answer to
his dreams and deepest wish. But will the Blue Fairy really be able to give him
what he truly wants?
This movie has many different looks
and feelings to it. In the beginning when Monica is unsure about David and
practically hates him the movie almost has a horror type feeling to it. David
seems to appear out of nowhere and moves silently. The lighting and look of the
scenes match with this genre too, being darker and shooting the camera through eerie
angles. But then as David is experiencing things for the first time there is an
abundance of light in the scenes, giving the feeling of how a child sees the
world. This movie is, as I said, a dark one. There is very little humor to be
found in it. But the humor that is in it isn’t just thrown in at random. It’s
at just the right time to give the viewer a life line, you could say, to the
light of day. Osment was around 13 at the time of making this movie and for
being that young he did an excellent job at portraying this complex role. He
was very believable as the mechanical boy who just wanted to be loved by his
Mommy no matter what he had to do. I suppose to appease the female readers I
should make a point to point out that Jude Law is in this movie. But he never
really catches my attention in this movie and, actually, looking at a lot of
the movies he has done it wasn’t much of a stretch for him to play the part of Gigolo
Joe. It almost feels like he was just put in as eye candy for the ladies. This
movie raises a lot of questions. The biggest being, if you could create a robot
that loves unconditionally what responsibility would the owner of that robot
have to it? The movie makes a good argument in the opening scenes, but it is controversial
so I will dodge this topic now. I will say once more as a warning, this is a
dark movie. Some other critics have said it’s a family film, but I would have
to question their definition of family film. This is definitely not a film for
smaller kids, but if you stick to the suggestions of the PG-13 rating then you
should be fine. I would have to say that everyone, who is old enough, should
see this movie at some time in their life.
If you're interested in A.I. Artificial Intelligence check out the preview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19pRsZRiz4
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