luxsol said:
A society of robots on an Earth that has been flooded and frozen over makes as much sense as aliens exploring the planet.
Actually, no. Jude Law's character hints that "at the end, all that will be left is us". Mechas are what remain because they're lifeless machines, and thus are not affected by the extreme cold weather. Humans, however, do, and cannot survive. I realize you've only seen the movie once, but jeezus, how can you say both scenarios make the same amount of sense?
All those "robots" looked a lot like Spielberg's aliens from Close Encounters of a Third Kind (especially the long legged one at the very end).
Actually...they aren't. The aliens in Close Encountes are really small, shorter than the children they abducted in some cases. People just have this pre-concieved image of what aliens look like. In fact, i remember reading that Spielberg was pissed off that so many movie-goers though they were aliens because his team worked hard at designing futuristic robots.
And because it's Spielberg, the "robot" touching David at the end reminded me of ET where he was able to heal and bring things to life with a simple touch. Doesn't make sense much, but you're supposed to believe it anyway. =P
Well, you know, David isn't a living being. But I'll give you that.
[qoute]I attributed them being able to speak English and know a lot about humans to the fact that they were
escavating an entire frozen city that was underwater to LEARN and KNOW about that society.[/quote]
That's a little far fetched to support the idea that aliens learned to speak perfect english. Doesn't it make more sense that they know how to speak english because it's been programmed into them since forever?
They were able to recreate David's home and then his mother from a friggin piece of hair (again, doesn't make sense.. especially on why she would only live one day). So why couldn't they be able to speak English?
Actually, they knew what David's home looked like because they read David's memory banks. And why did they know how to do that? Yeah, you know the answer.
I mean, if they were robots they were built by humans who are long dead, so why would they even speak English of a society that is obviously long dead? Do we speak Ancient Greek? Ancient Hebrew? Other ancient languages? Nope, because those societies have died out or became something else, which in turn changes the language. So aliens speaking English makes as much sense as robots speaking a language of a society that is long gone.
So really, a society of robots makes as much sense as aliens by what was shown at the end of the movie.
Well, there's several explanations for that. First, I guess, is that since they record everything, and by that time they probably invented huge hard drives or whatever
they have no need to "delete" information. By reading David's memory banks, they can know which language he communicates in and "speak" accordingly. You can see that they don't speak english between them, they "transfer information" by touching each other.
Okay, maybe it isn't that obvious when they first appear, I too initially thought they were aliens and was all WTF IS GOING ON, but as the movie progressed I realized that they're robots...cause that explanation actually make sense and is in context with the rest of the film. Heh, I remember that the friends I watched the movie with thought they were aliens by the end. When I told them I thought they were robots they were all like "no...oh wait, that actually makes sense".
No need to make an arguement for the "alien theory", as they refer to them as mechas/robots on the A.I. DVD.
