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re: A.I.

> > Note, also, how, when David appears for the very first time, he is out
> > of focus in such a way that he resembles the robots at the end of the
> > film.
>
> And note how in both shots, the subjects are a visual reference to the
> aliens in Spielberg's "Close Encounters" . . . a hint, possibly, at how
> these machines are humanity's future in much the same way contact with
> other worlds was mankind's destiny in the former film.

Oh, but what drastically different destinies.  In one, the aliens come
down from the heavens and bring a sort of enlightenment or salvation to us
-- in the other, the machines pick over the bones of their creators,
stranded for all time just as David was abandoned in the woods.

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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