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What do you get when you cross a [[Steven Spielberg]] movie with a [[Stanley Kubrick]] movie?
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]
* [[Alternate Reality Game]]: One of these one concocted as a marketing tool - and appears to be the first such.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The patrons of the flesh fair cheer as machines are horribly disfigured and destroyed. But They are appalled that the operator would want to kill a child, machine or not.
* [[Eye Awaken]]: When Monica activates David's seven-word code in the trailer. Very slowly.
* [[Failsafe Failure]]: Shortly after Martin is cured, he's having a party with his friends, and the kids decide it would be a hilarious idea to test David's personal safety subroutines. [[What an Idiot!|Right next to the pool]]. They do this by gently approaching his arm with a knife, at which point he takes a death grip on Martin and begs him to "Keep me safe", which freaks out Martin, overbalancing them both into the pool and nearly drowning Martin. Granted, David is meant to mimic a child, but holy
** David is a prototype, and laboratory tests never work out all the problems. Granted, this is a fairly major problem, but also a rather specific one (robot is threatened near a pool and the person he feels responsible for his safety just happens to be wearing a heavy and awkward exoskeleton on his legs). And again, David's a prototype. The whole movie basically is his testing period.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Of the most chillingly inhumane kind.
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* [[The Hero Dies]]: David, but he lived long enough to find his happy ending.
* [[History Marches On]]: In the movie, the World Trade Center is still standing in the ice-choked ruins of New York after two thousand years. In [[Real Life]], this movie was released only a few months before 9/11.
* [[Humans Are
** {{spoiler|Mainly because he looks like a little kid and he's begging for his life - the mechas never begged for their lives before.}}
** The only reason David was spared was because the crowd couldn't be convinced that he was a robot.
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* [[Moral Myopia]]: 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.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110201064556/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.
* [[Our Souls Are Different]]: Apparently, spacetime itself stores information about past events and people.
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: Admittedly, David is "just" a realistic robot.
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* [[Shout-Out]]:
** 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 [[The Oner|style of cinematography.]]
** Whether intentional or not the film has a few Disney related references, some blatant, others subtle. There's the entire [[The Adventures of Pinocchio
** Gigolo Joe dancing down the street is a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Singin' in
** Hello, [[Dr. No
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]: Gigolo Joe goes down this route once {{spoiler|it becomes clear that David will stop at nothing to find the Blue Fairy and be reunited with his mother, whether or not he has to abandon Joe in the process.}}
* [[Skele
* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]: Towards human.
* [[Stan Winston]]: Teddy, a puppet of astounding realism and personality, is often lauded as Stan's best creation since The Alien Queen.
* [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids]]: Averted. David has no super powers, and when injured he reacts like any child would.
* [[Tomato in
* [[Tech Marches On]]: Doctor Know, an information service that charges per question, and by "question", we mean "[[Literal Genie|anything ending in a question mark]]". Too bad there is not a [[Wikipedia|free source of information available in a public place]] in the future, huh?
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: Inverted, {{spoiler|the "sinful earth" dies first, David outlives it.}}
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* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: Possible aversion. It is unclear what happened to humans by the end of the movie, but it ''is'' apparent that they are extinct, and the silvery robotlike beings outlived them. Plus, they were also genuinely interested in studying humans and were utterly fascinated with them.
* [[Underwater Ruins]]: Of a mostly submerged New York City, no less.
* [[What Happened to
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: Explored from two different angles by David, the child-mecha, and Gigolo Joe, the prostitute mecha.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The entire movie is a discussion of this.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Science Fiction Films]]
[[Category:Works by Steven Spielberg]]
[[Category:Alternate Reality Game]]
[[Category:Dreamworks Animation]]
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[[Category:A.I.: Artificial Intelligence]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Films Based on Short Stories]]
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