Rena Jocelle C. Nalzaro
BSA-2 ABM-A
Module 9
Instruction: Watch Steven Spielberg's science fiction drama film, A.I Artificial Intelligence (2001). After
watching the film, reflect on the story of David, a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability
to love, and write a 200-300 word essay on the topic "Why does the future needs us?". Cite particular
scenes and insights from the movie to support your arguments.
"WHY DOES THE FUTURE NEED US?"
When I watch "A.I Artificial Intelligence", I felt a lot of emotions. "A.I Artificial Intelligence" is a science
fiction drama film, it tells the story a robot, a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to
love. A robot boy programmed to experience human emotions embarked on a journey of self-discovery.
As I continued to watch the film, I had a lot of question in my mind and then I remembered the question
"Why does the future need us?". Does the future need humans? Are we (human)still needed in the
future? Yes, future still need us because the future still needs love. What life is like if there is no love or
faith. Only humans have been made for love - not programmed, as David was. Humans are not slaves to
programming- but made for love, made for God. David has been programmed to love. Once he activated
with a code, he fixes on the activator, in this case his Mommy (France O'Connor). He exists to love her
and be loved by her. Because he is a sophisticated android, there's a natural tendecy for us to believe
him on that level. But in fact, he does not love and does not feel love, he just simply reflect his coding.
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But if we will go deeper with the movie and the question "Why does the future need us?" I think it
shouldn't be all about how the future need us humans. But it's about how the future need humans that
are willing to adopt with the change in terms of technology in the future. Humans that will not think that
androids, robots or machine only as object that is useful for labor or work just because they don't really
have emotions because they were only programmed. In the movie, there is a scene where people are
happy destroying the robots. But the future don't need a human like that. Future need humans that will
imprint unconditional love to the technological advances in the future.
Humans will still be the biggest part in the future. But we need to open up ourselves that androids will
also have a big contribution just like the scene of the movie when time comes that the world is invaded
by the alien and humans become extinct David was rescued by a group of impossibly slender beings;that
might be aliens but are actually a very advance androids. For them, David is an incalculable treasure: "He
is the last who knew humans" and with his memories he had in his past, the aliens were ahow to
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