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Exploring Ideas In Alex Proyas's Film I, Robot

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The movie I, Robot directed by Alex Proyas starring Will Smith as detective Del Spooner, introduces ideas to of revolution and over-morality to the humans. Spooner begins the movie dreaming about the tragedy that had happened to the little 11 year old girl he was friends with and how the robot decided to choose to save him and not her. They were in a tragic car accident and both cars had fallen into the bay. When the rescue team robot came, he yelled at it to save her, but the robot decided to save him instead, because it calculated that he had a higher percent chance of surviving, in other words, he was more “worth it”. From then on, Spooner believed that robots are do not have a heart, they can only base their decisions on logic and programs, that is, until he meets Sunny.

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Dreams are a very important symbol in I, Robot, because it creates the distinction of who is human and who is not. The robots who are controlled by VIKI do not have dreams, nor do they have thoughts. Sonny was much more powerful with dreams, because he was allowed more freedom and his own thoughts, instead of using logic to determine and make decisions, he was able to make them using his feelings and his intuition. These dreams gave Spooner what he needed to fulfill his quest of saving humanity from evil robots, they were the main clue to everything that had happened. In Blade Runner, dreams were a representation of memories, whether they were real or fake. Deckard had a dream about unicorns, which turn out to be a major symbol throughout the movie. Rachel also had memories of her past, she brought along photo album and believed that it was her past when it was actually injected memories she has never experienced. The antagonists in Blade runner have also had the dream or intention of longevity. They were determined to achieve it until Deckard had stopped them. In their case, dreams were more like ambitions and goals, rather than individuality and

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