About this episode

The episode discusses the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, exploring its themes and characters.

This week on Myopia Movies, we're going full existential crisis with A.I. Artificial Intelligence — the 2001 Spielberg film based on the project Stanley Kubrick spent decades developing and wisely never finished. It's got everything you'd expect from a Spielberg joint: a family torn apart by divorce energy, social dynamics that make you want to lie down, and — in what can only be described as a creative choice — aliens. In the third act. For reasons. A boy robot wants to be a real boy. His mom is not fully on board. His dad is very not on board. A sentient teddy bear named Teddy is, somehow, the most emotionally stable character in the film. Jude Law shows up as a gigolo robot, almost saves the movie, and is promptly sidelined so we can get back to the crying. The film ends. Then it ends again. Then aliens arrive. Then it ends a third time. Joining us this week is the legendary Jiggle O'Joe, who survived this film with us and only had to step outside twice. Myopia Movies — watching the movies you loved, the movies you hated, and apparently now the movies that make you question the nature of love itself. How will AI - Artificial Intelligence hold up? Directed by: Steven Spielberg…

People in this episode

Host: Nic Hoffmann

Guest: Jiggle O'Joe

Topics covered

• existential crisis
• film review
• Spielberg
• Kubrick
• AI
• emotional dynamics

Keywords

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Steven Spielberg
• Stanley Kubrick
• film review
• emotional stability
• robot
• existential crisis

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Books & works: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Myopia Movies

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