This film is called BICENTENNIAL MAN. I was very moved after watching it. There is a picture in the English textbook for the first grade of high school. BICENTENNIAL MAN
An American science fiction film. Starring famous comedian Robin William.
The original meaning of Bicentennial is the 200th anniversary. If you want me to translate it, it will be "The 200-Year-Old Man". "Becoming human" doesn't make sense, and it's also inexplicable. I also saw a translation called "Robot Nanny".
This is an American science fiction film. Starring the famous comedian Robin William. I don't know why this movie is not very comedic but he acted in it. In addition, science fiction is science fiction. There are cars flying on the road, but the filming is very realistic. It can almost be said to be a touching and emotional film. It can be discovered by a literary person like me, who pays special attention to the characteristics of science fiction. You can choose not to watch it. It was a low-budget film with most scenes shot indoors.
In other words, this is an era where robot nannies are widely used, and everyone has become accustomed to robots on the street. The inside of the robot is full of programs and parts, but the external design is human-shaped, with its clothes and face all made of metal molds. Robin William this robot came to a user, his product name is "Angel", although his duty is that of a servant. The family he came to had gone through a process from being unaccustomed to and disliked by the owner to being unable to leave them anymore. But soon everyone discovered a problem. There was a problem with the programming of this robot: it actually had emotions!
This was a serious accident. The factory negotiates with the owner of "Angel" to take back the robot, and the price can be any high. But the owner of "Angel" left the factory after confirming that the robot was indeed sentient, rejecting the temptation of profit. Not only that, he also paid "Angel" for his artistic creation and opened a bank account for him. "Angel" used his artistic genius to become a rich man, and his salary was twice that of the factory owner who made him. . "Angel" and his master's family are like one family to each other. Under the master's education, he gradually becomes a normal-thinking person, but he has no body and no expression. The owner's little daughter fell in love with the "angel", but reality prevented her from pouring out her love to the "angel" and she could only marry someone else. "Angels" don't understand all this in the human world.
The "angel" can read the master's books at will, where he knows what freedom is, and the master also gives him freedom. "Angels" also learned about love, kissing and sex. His understanding of sex is: just like death, you actually go to heaven with your beloved; and after you wake up, your lover is actually lying next to you; if you want to die again, you can go together at any time. His descriptions of kissing are also beautiful. In short, these ordinary human lives are so attractive to him that he has to do everything he can to change himself and make himself a real person. This is his greatest wish. He fell in love with the fourth generation of his host's family. Human society still does not accept "angel" and his marriage to Splash. The reason is that humans are jealous of his longevity and eternity. Splash will die, and so will other normal humans. Through research, "Angel" has biologicalized himself, which means that all his feelings except his mind are human, and he can even eat, fart, and have sex. Finally, in order to obtain a normal married life with Splash, "Angel" gave up eternity and made himself a person with physical limitations! Here I can’t help but think of a famous Chinese saying: It is better to be a mortal than an immortal. At this moment, I feel how proud and lucky I am to be a member of the human race, an ordinary human being who has to face the problem of life and death! Perhaps this is also the most important theme of this film: humans can be proud and proud of themselves.
In the end, the gray-haired "angel" was euthanized. He happened to be 200 years old. When asked why he gave up eternity, he said: Life should have dignity. Length itself is meaningless.
While watching the movie, I remembered something I said before: Today's human transplantation technology is very advanced.
From skin transplantation to hair transplantation, from breast augmentation to rhinoplasty, to heart and lung surgery, there are so many counterfeit products in the body. But as of now, everyone with a transplant, including those with fake hearts, can still call themselves "I", there is no doubt about it. But when one day a person is gradually transplanted, who can bear the responsibility of this new "I"? The law must have come out a long time ago to define when the old "I" is declared dead and when the new "I" can be declared effective. If the "cloning technology" just announced is used for human reproduction, it will definitely have trouble accurately expressing the concept of "I" in the future. If transplantation and biotechnology reach such a high level, how will "human" be defined? Will we give "human" dignity to people like "angels"?
This is not an absurd question.