| I have been writing reviews and expressing | | | | Lanning's death was not suicide. When |
| morals for a few of my favorite movies, which | | | | Detective Spooner examines Dr. Lanning's |
| as it turns out, are mostly dramas and | | | | office an NS-5 robot bursts from hiding and |
| animations. Just to even things out, I want | | | | flees. |
| to mention a sci-fi movie this time. I | | | | |
| particularly liked I, Robot because it had | | | | When Spooner interrogates the robot from Dr. |
| action, it had thought, it had a point, it | | | | Lanning's Office, he finds out that this |
| was extremely funny in parts, it was not | | | | robot is quite unique; he even has a name, |
| overly violent and guess what, there was no | | | | Sonny. During the interview Sonny displays |
| love scene. While sometimes I think no movie | | | | emotions such as anger and fear, qualities |
| is complete without a love scene, because I | | | | that robots do not possess. Before Sonny can |
| am a hopeless romantic, sometimes, it really | | | | say anything incriminating, he is taken to be |
| is not necessary and it gets overly used. | | | | decommissioned by the CEO of USR. |
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| The film is set in Chicago in the year 2035, | | | | After careful consideration and a search of |
| where robots have been developed to the point | | | | Dr. Lanning's house which nearly gets him |
| where they are used in nearly every | | | | killed, Detective Spooner begins to think |
| household. The only person in all of Chicago | | | | that something was threatening Lanning and |
| who does not have a robot is homicide | | | | that Lanning was trying to tell him that |
| detective Del Spooner (Will Smith), who has | | | | something is wrong with the robots. |
| an intense dislike for robots due to a | | | | |
| personal experience with their lack of | | | | There have long been debates about whether |
| humanity. | | | | the development of technology is a positive |
| | | | step for humanity or if indeed we are |
| The movie starts to gather momentum with the | | | | fuelling our own laziness and destruction. I |
| beginning of an investigation that lands in | | | | guess the thing to remember is that we as |
| Detective Spooner's lap. A Dr. Alfred Lanning | | | | humans do not always think rationally and |
| (James Cromwell) appears to have committed | | | | logically like computers, that weigh up pro's |
| suicide by jumping from his office window. | | | | and con's, fastest routes, best results. We |
| Dr. Lanning was the inventor of the Three | | | | usually base decisions on feelings and past |
| Laws of Robotics, the laws by which all | | | | experiences. If we were to consider things |
| robots are bound in order to protect humans, | | | | like a computer, it would probably be better |
| and co-founder of U.S. Robotics (USR), a | | | | to have studied something different at |
| highly successful company that specializes in | | | | university because it is worth more money, or |
| robotic technology. | | | | it is probably better to buy only white cars |
| | | | because they are more practical, or there |
| USR have just released a new line of robots | | | | would not be any other food except meat and |
| called the NS-5. Each robot is outfitted with | | | | vegetables. I think it all comes down to the |
| an uplink to URS's central positronic brain | | | | importance of finding the perfect balance |
| V.I.K.I (Virtual Interactive Kinetic | | | | between evolving to make lives better and |
| Intelligence). The more Detective Spooner | | | | creating machines to feed our inability to |
| investigates, the more he believes that Dr. | | | | control our own lives. |