Synopsis: The film takes place in a world where the greenhouse gasses have caused the polar icecaps to melt, flooding coastal cities. In the future, to combat over-population, people wishing to have children must apply for a license. The film starts in the offices of a company called Cybertronics, where it's owner, Professor Allen Hobby(William Hurt), wishes to push mecha(aka robotic)technology, to make a creation that can love. When his colleagues mention their "love units", Hobby corrects them: he is not talking physical love, but emotional love...such as the love of a child for it's mother. The narrative then shift's to the Swintons, whose son Martin(Jake Thomas)is currently in cryostasis until a cure can be found for a disease that he has. His mother Monica(Frances O'Connor)has not held up well under the conditions that have taken her son from her.Hoping to help her cope, her husband Henry(Sam Robards)takes part in a test from Cybertronics, wherein they would be able to be a family to the company's newest mecha: David (Haley Joel Osment), the culmination of Hobby's research to make a robot that can "love".Things appear to be going well for Swintons, until one day, a cure brings Martin back to health. Martin then tries to get David into trouble in a number of ways.Henry decides that David is no longer safe, and convinces Monica to return David to Cybertronics to be destroyed.Later that evening, David concludes that his abandonment was because he is not real like Martin, and that if he were to find the Blue Fairy like in the story of Pinocchio, she could make him real.He met Johnson-Johnson(Brendan Gleeson),and taken to a place called 'Flesh Fair' where are destroyed for the amusement of anti-mecha fanatics.David is brought into the ring along with Gigolo Joe(Jude Law).They escaped end their journey takes them to a place where knowledgeable computer representation of Einstein,called Dr. Know(Robin Williams), tells them that the Blue Fairy can be found at the end of the world where the lions weep. Joe explains to David that, Dr. Know must mean a place called 'Man-hatten', as many mecha have gone to the end of the world, and never came back.
Their journey leads them to the flooded New York City,wherein they find the Cybertronics building, of which sit statues of lions,weeping water from their eyes.David enters into a room, where he finds another mecha that looks just like him.However,feeling this duplicate could be planing to take his mother away from him, David destroys it in a jealous rage.It is then that Allen Hobby reveals his presence, telling David that he used Dr. Know to lead him home, telling David that the Blue Fairy is only a myth.David makes his way outside the building, and then jumps off into the water, he suddenly sees something.But before he can move further, a claw from the Amphibicopter snares him, dragging him out of the water. Above the water,David tells Joe that he saw the Blue Fairy, and that she is down below.However, before Joe can help David, another Amphibicopter appears and magnitize Joe to it.Before he is pulled skyward, Joe activates the Amphibicopter for David to go underwater.David guides the craft to an area based on fairytales, and within a Pinocchio-themed area, finds a statue of the Blue Fairy.However manuevering the craft causes a nearby ferris wheel to collapse, trapping the Amphibicopter near the statue.David is not all concerned, but is elated that he has finally found the Blue Fairy.He then begins to pray to her, wishing to become a real boy. The narrative then shifts to 2,000 years into the future, in which the world has become blanketed in a new ice age, and humans have all but died out.Roaming the landscape are future mecha, trying to unearth and study the culture and species that created them.An excavation team comes across David and Teddy, frozen in the Amphibicopter.One of the mecha talks to David, concerning his wish to have Monica back to life, he explained that the resurrection of her mother will only last for a day.Even this revelation David still wishes to meet Monica again.The mecha grant him his wish,and the resurrected Monica and David along with Teddy spend an entire day together, doing all sorts of things. When it finally comes time for them to go to sleep. Monica tells David that she loves him.With this knowledge, David himself also goes to sleep content and happy at last.
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Our love for our parents is one of the most ideal form of love a person or a child must have.Imagine a couple with a robotic child? or a world where mechanical creature dominates.How can a robot love and seek for love--a child's love for his mother, which is supported by this statement "HIS LOVE IS REAL, BUT HE IS NOT"
The creation of a robot that can love which resulted to David was a great achievement for those persons who invented him, but when he was brought to a family which are humans, has started out the conflicts of the movie.These brought me a very sad feeling as it shows a tragedic mode.When David aspires to become real,so he could have the love of Monica, made ma realize, how some people took their mothers love for granted.David only shows the great love of a child to his mother, which we all should have too.
David's journey just to become a real boy, implies how a person must strive to maintain the love between us and our mother. I guess the sad reality on the movie was that, he will never be real, no matter how he tried to, but what greatly count's was that, he was able to love and be loved by Monica which was a human, unlike him.
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