The film's about a beta test of a robotic child called David, who is briefly adopted and cared for by an employee of the company that made him (It? What is a robot's proper pronoun?), a surrogate child while their own son is in a medically induced coma. It's Jurassic Park, but the dinosaurs outlive the humans and we see where they end up in another 2,000 years. Is AI a commentary on Spielberg's own childhood wish fulfillments? An inversion of the films I saw of his when I was a kid? A blend of his wide-eyed emotional spirit, and his cynical, dark films on war? I watch it because it reminds me, over and over, of the future of gadgets when humanity dies. I remember the film's strangeness washing over me in the dark. I watched it in a movie theater in Los Angeles, when I lived out west. It was Spielberg's first film after 1998's Saving Private Ryan. Steven Spielberg's completion of an idea first dreamed up by Stanley Kubrick arrived at the end of June 2001. But I keep rewatching it every year or two, and it always haunts me. It's been 20 years, and I'm still not sure what to make of the movie AI: Artificial Intelligence. Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence just gets better with age.
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