The film opens up by emphasizing the three laws, and it also shows Spooner and a girl being saved by a robot from drowning in a sinking car.
We know that the point of view is First Person POV because we only know everything that Del Spooner is going through and has gone through. We also know his dreams/nightmares.
The first song played is Superstition by Stevie Wonder.
We see a very interesting establishing shot of the director's idea of Chicago in 1835.
Another shot that caught my attention was a low-angle shot of a large robot which was made seem larger by the shot. This emphasizes Del's skepticism and paranoia towards the robots and foreshadows that the Robots will at one point become corrupt. The same statue is later looked down upon by Del, making it seem insignificant.
The scene where Del and a girl were trapped in a sinking car reoccurs prior to him waking from a nightmare (motif). Apparently, a robot measured the logical percentage of survival between Del and younger girl named Sarah. Del had a 45% chance of survival while Sarah only had 11%. Del claimed that 11% was more than enough, and that a HUMAN would have known that.
Dr. Lanning's idea that robots will develop dreams, feelings, and a way to keep secrets is stressed.
In the end, Spooner was the only one who would have been able to decipher the clues or 'breadcrumbs' because of his severe prejudice toward the robots.
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nice point about the low angle shot creating "skepticism and paranoia"
ReplyDeletedoes "Superstition" make the film seem less "futuristic"?