Blog 3 I Robot

 

I ROBOT

 

 

The 2004 science fiction movie I , Robot was written by Vintar and Goldsman. Starring Will Smith whom played the role of detective Spooner and the unexpected cyborg.
The futuristic film took place in the year 2035 , within that year a company called U.S Robotics produced thousands of robots to become servants to the public. These robots were programmed with the basic 3 laws that particularly prohibits them from harming any human beings, their only duty is to obey and protect.
All robots were controlled by a system called Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence (V.I.K.I). V.I.K.I is a system that is depicted as a virtual woman who no one knew was secretly corrupted. Because she was too informed she begin trying to hide all clues of the death of her creator Dr. Alfred. Allegedly Dr. Alfred committed suicide by jumping out of a window from his building. However, the window could only be broken by a great force which was caused by another force in the room , presumably a robot. It was not V.I.K.I who killed Alfred but his own personal creation Sunny. Sunny was different from all of the other robots and could break the three laws but only by obeying the request of his owner.
Detective Spooner had a phobia of cyborgs and deemed them all to be slightly evil. Sunny was the icing on the cake of his theory of robots turning on humans eventually. This thought was only developed due to his accident. A car collision that drove both cars into water. Because a robot in the area decided that the logical choice was to save him instead of the young girl, he became furious with any and every robot. As a result of the car accident his arm was replaced with a prosthetic one in which made him a cyborg slightly.
Detective Spooner the cyborg in the film was displayed as a quick tempered man. Who in no way would describe himself as a cyborg of any kind. He wanted nothing to do with any robot at all and had preferred to be dead to save the life of a little girl.
As for the ethical portion of the movie a woman that help program the robots named Dr. Calvin believed that the robots were not things, they were living beings as well and treated them accordingly. She felt for them and believed that they would never do any harm. Sunny also strengthened her belief, he was very different . He could think on his own and seemed very alive. Dr. Calvin was the humanitarian of them all. Equal treatment to all alive or electric.
The film portrayed the robots as human servants similar to slavery but made the robots so happy and willing to assist. Creating the robots without any cognitive ability which meant that no robot would question their position.
Into today's society prosthetic limbs are very relevant and are used for people who have been injured and lost a limb or two. unlike I Robot, fake limbs are not as disguisable and are very easy to spot. Those with these replacements are able to do just about everything they were with an actual arm but with some limitations.