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Re: a few things

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that A.I. was an important attempt to 
synthesize the brilliant organic style of Spielberg and the darker more 
mathematical style of Kubric.  Ultimately, I don't think one person can 
simply combine his/her work with that of another and have it turn out smooth 
and I guess truly sythesized. Basically the flaw was that it was too easy to 
pull apart what components were Spielberg's and what were Kubric's.  There 
was probably no way around this dilemna since the whole thing was pretty 
much contrived that way.  That isn't to say, however, that the ideas weren't 
profound and mostly probably prophetic.  Has anyone ever posited the idea of 
a robot boy desiring to become human?  Probably, but I can't think of who 
offhand.


>From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
>Reply-To: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
>CC: Over the Rhine List <Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com>
>Subject: Re: a few things
>Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 09:11:36 -0700 (PDT)
>
>On Sat, 18 May 2002, Dusty Volume wrote:
> > The way I see it, all the things you are saying are equal.  A person can
> > not like the film *and* think it bad, because everyone has subjective
> > definitions of what good and bad are.
>
>Hmmm.  Ever since it came out, I have told people that _A.I. Artificial
>Intelligence_ is "a mess of a film, but such an interesting mess."  There
>is no way I can reduce the film to statements like "I like it" or "it's a
>bad film" without misrepresenting it somehow, but if there was any film
>that might prompt me to make both statements, that might be it.
>
>Then again, maybe I *don't* like it, but I think it's a *good* film for
>all the questions it raises and all the thoughts it provokes.  Hmmm.
>
>--- 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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