History Film / AIArtificialIntelligence

What do you get when you cross a StevenSpielberg movie with a StanleyKubrick movie?

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Thousands of years of being locked in ice, staring and praying at a statue that can never grant what David wants]]. Yikes.

* TheCameo / HeyItsThatVoice:

* DoAndroidsDream: The role of David's and Gigolo Joe's original programming in shaping their behavior, or not.

* EinsteinHair: Dr. Know is a cartoon Einstein, complete with (of course) the hair.

* EyeAwaken: When Monica activates David's seven-word code in the trailer. Very slowly.

* HumansAreFlawed: Gigolo Joe's opinion.

* InnocentInaccurate: A programmed version. Gigolo Joe thinks that a client's horrible bruises are the result of sexual "passion," although the woman has clearly been abused.
* ItsWhatIDo: Gigolo Joe's response when David asks him about the dancing. Part of the film's DoAndroidsDream debate (a freely willed act, or just executing a string of code?).
* JerkAss:

* MistakenForMurderer: Why Gigolo Joe is on the run.
* MonumentalDamage: Note the Statue of Liberty's torch on the way to Manhattan.
* MoralMyopia: We see a group of humans that make a sport and spectacle of publicly destroying sentient robots in various ways. They are shown having great concern when the possibility that a child has gone missing on their grounds and that it may have been confused with a robot is presented to them. Meanwhile, the crowd who've gathered to see this show end up rioting when the MC tries to have the child-mecha David dissolved in acid, and it's clear that they did this mostly because the MC failed to prove that David was a robot.
* NoodleIncident: Before hunting down Gigolo Joe, Lord Johnson-Johnson asks his subordinate to confirm that Joe isn't human, alluding to an otherwise unexplained (but probably fatal) "Trenton incident."

** And New York City is intact under a sheet of ice. Mind you ice sheets ''move'' and would have long ago torn the city up and pushed the rubble into the sea.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: David is even more ridiculously human than normal robots. He even fools humans into thinking he's human.

* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Towards human.

* TomatoInTheMirror: David already knows that he's a machine. He later discovers to his horror that he isn't special - there are other Davids (and Darlenes), all mass-produced, all not special.

* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: The murderer's excuse for killing Gigolo Joe's client, Samantha.

* BlueEyes: David, as displayed very prominently in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECGnWoQgz6Q this trailer.]]

* NoodleIncident: Before hunting down Gigolo Joe, Lord Johnson-Johnson asks his subordinate to confirm that Joe isn't human, alluding to an otherwise unexplained (but probably fatal) "Trenton incident." The fan-made novelisation both confirms and expands on this: a homeless man, drunk and scanned with dodgy equipment, ended up captured by the Mecha-hunters and ripped to pieces on stage- almost ending the Flesh Fair for good.
* {{Novelization}}: An online, fan-made one still exists [[http://www.comeawayohumanchild.net/WhereTheLionsWeep/AIAFNb1c01version2005.htm here]]; it expands on much of the story, on numerous minor characters, and the mysterious Specialists at the end of the film.

* TheHeroDies: David, but he lived long enough to find his happy ending.

* ApocalypseHow [[spoiler:Class 3, by the end of the movie.]]

** Hello, [[DrNo Doctor Know]]?

* ApocalypseHow

* TomatoInTheMirror: David already knows that he's a machine. He later discovers to his horror that he isn't special - there are other Davids, all mass-produced, all not special.

** The beginning of the Flesh Fair scene involves an elaborate, drawn-out, single-camera shot involving fair workers and Teddy. This is generally regarded as an homage to Stanley Kubrick’s style of cinematography.

** Yes, somehow humans are so under-populated they build robots to fill their numbers, and yet so numerous they have population controls. No wonder they go extinct.
** Makes sense if you assume that there are too many people for available resources, but not as many as there used to be.
** It could also be explained (at least in the case of David's parents) that, since they already had a son, they weren't allowed to have another child.

However, disaster strikes after Martin is cured, leaving David cast off and alone with his mechanical teddy bear companion Teddy, searching for his place in the world, ultimately embarking on a journey to find his own humanity alongside Gigolo Joe, a "love mecha" also on the run after one of his clients is killed.

* AnimeAnatomy: Implied in the pool scene. "Then let's see what you ''can't'' pee with."

** Whether intentional or not the film has a few Disney related references, some blatant, others subtle. There's the entire [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]] plot but then we have Monica (David's mother) playing "Once Upon a Dream" from ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' to her '''cryogenically frozen son'''... She's then also humming the tune latter before going to a party with her husband and as they're leaving her shoe slips in a ''{{Cinderella}}'' moment. There is a possible referance to {{Tron}}, the bikers sent to collect robots for the flesh lights are on Tron-esque bikes and have TronLines.

* FreudWasRight: David's entire journey is ultimately about winning the unconditional love of his mommy.

* AndIMustScream: [[Thousands of years of being locked in ice, staring and praying at a statue that can never grant what David wants]]. Yikes.

* AndIMustScream: Thousands of years of being locked in ice, staring and praying at a statue that can never grant what David wants. Yikes.

* UnderwaterRuins

** Henry qualifies when you think about it. He's the one who brings David home to "replace" Martin and [[WhatAnIdiot then gets creeped out by the fact that David is so "creepily human"]]. On top of that, AFTER Monica bonds with David, Henry shows signs of hostility towards David even before Martin gets better. Which leads to UnfortunateImplications that mothers and offspring can and will form powerful attachments, but fathers and offspring can not and will not form any attachments even if their lives depend on it.

* JerkAss: Martin
** And arguably Henry. He's the one who brings David home to "replace" Martin and then gets creeped out by the fact that David is so "creepily human. On top of that, AFTER Monica bonds with David, Henry shows signs of hostility towards David even before Martin gets better.
*** Which leads to UnfortunateImplications that mothers and offspring can and will form powerful attachments, but fathers and offspring can not and will not form any attachments even if their lives depend on it.

* HeroicBSOD: David does not take the fact that there are more of his model well, to put it mildly. [[DrivenToSuicide And it follows with...]]

* BerserkButton: David does not take the fact that there are more of his model well, to put it mildly. [[DrivenToSuicide And it follows with...]]

** Whether intentional or not the film has a few Disney related references, some blatant, others subtle. There's the entire {{Pinocchio}} plot but then we have Monica (David's mother) playing "Once Upon a Dream" from ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' to her '''cryogenically frozen son'''... She's then also humming the tune latter before going to a party with her husband and as they're leaving her shoe slips in a ''{{Cinderella}}'' moment. There is a possible referance to {{Tron}}, the bikers sent to collect robots for the flesh lights are on Tron-esque bikes and have TronLines.