Ideas like love, beauty, and so on are part of the human experience because humans sense them; they don’t always agree on the particulars, but they intuitively know that these ideas exist.
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Spielberg fails to understand that obsession is not love, and if David were really human, he would know that.
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Whenever David talks about Monica loving him, he’s always bringing up the things she’ll do for him, not what he can do for her.
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The robot shouldn’t have the ability to lie unless programmed to do so under certain circumstances, but even if the robot were capable of lying in the event of a murder, the robot keeps records of its whereabouts.
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Spielberg needs to depict David in this obsessive way because, otherwise, he might find himself having to justify why the father doesn’t try to save David or why Martin doesn’t grow attached to him over time.
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He’s going to pull on your heartstrings to obfuscate from that all-important question: what is the definition of “real,” or to put it more directly, is endowed value real?
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The idea of picking a robot child to replace a real son is very disturbing, but disturbing or not, the parents aren’t allowed to have another child to begin with.
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When the scientist proposes creating a robot child who can love, the audience is bound to be asking the obvious question: Is that possible?
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