The movie I, Robot is mainly about the "regular" body vs the "technology" body. Dr Lanning is the founder of a robotic company and a new species of robots has just been released. Something in the configuration of the robots goes wrong and the reason needs to be figured out. The robots now are violent instead of civil and protecting.
A body of any sort can't be totally controlled by technology. Many ways of malfunctioning are possible and chaos can be a dangerous result. To totally trust something like a robot is not a smart thing to do because it's being run by a machine.
Will Smith had a robotic arm inserted after a car accident he was involved in. This new arm helped him greatly and ultimately saved mankind in the movie. The body in this case is dependent on technology in order to function normally.
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Shaina,
I like that you've picked up on the "even though you hate robots, you need them" aspect of Will Smith's arm - is this true for Sonny as well? There are also a couple of other body/technology questions I want you to look at - what about the body of the new robots - Spooner remarks on the human face at one point - is that disturbing? pacifying? Why does the company want them to look/act human? For that matter - why do you think that the filmmaker chose to have a human face for V.I.K.I as well? On that note, what is the argument behind her being a woman or at least having a female voice?
Another theme I am curious about your reaction to is the idea of the 'ghost in the machine' - what does this mean? At points it seems like a biological metaphor for evolution or mutation - but I'm not sure - what are these ghosts and how do they 'liberate' the machine from human control?
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