daily stream: a robot who wants to be a real boy
2001’s *A.I. Artificial Intelligence* is on Paramount+ on both sides of the Atlantic
It’s been all science fiction this week at Daily Stream, ahead of an announcement at FlickFilosopher.com tomorrow. Why not brace yourself for the news with a rewatch of Steven Spielberg’s devastating A.I. Artificial Intelligence, from 2001? A young Haley Joel Osment is terrifyingly upsetting as David, a robot boy programmed only for a mother’s love who is profoundly lost when that mother (Francis O’Connor) realizes that a “child” that never grows up is a quiet horror. If he’s “only” a machine programmed to ape human emotion and human needs, why is it so deeply moving when he apes human-style pain, too? Oh, how I sob every time I watch this movie… (Read my 2001 review.)
US: stream on Paramount+ (via Prime and Apple TV) and MGM+ (via Prime); rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: stream on Paramount+ (via Prime); rent on BFI Player; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
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