Is the emotional companionship of robots a blessing or a misfortune? (movie review)

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The American movie "Robot and Frank" is about a man named Frank who has mild Alzheimer's disease and the robot Robert. story between.

Frank has mild Alzheimer's disease, so he has certain difficulties in interacting with people. He has a pair of children named Hunter and Madison. The son, Hunter, was far away from his father's residence, so a robot was prepared for Frank to take care of his daily life.

At first, Frank was very repelled by this stupid little robot. But the robot always listened to Frank gently and took good care of his daily life. The two began to get along... Frank gradually began to accept the robot from rejection, and often told him about his past with Hunter.

Frank was a master thief when he was young and had superb lock-picking skills. Therefore, even if he is old now and something related to theft happens in the community, the police will come to him to look for clues. Frank was proud of his lock-picking skills. He repeated in front of the robot many times that when he was young, he hoped to pass on this lock-picking skill to his son Hunter, but he never had the chance.

The dull robot and Frank began to get along. Frank passed on his lock-picking skills to the robot. The robot had no idea that Frank used this lock-picking skills to commit crimes, as if in his program There is no content related to the legal system and crime. He just unconditionally accepted some of the instructions Frank gave him. As Frank gradually got along, he became somewhat dependent on the robot, and developed a kind of relationship between people, like the relationship between father and son.

Emotional dependence has arisen, which may also be related to the loneliness of old Frank, who is already a sweet-tempered person. His son Hunter is very busy at work and far away from his father; his daughter Madison also cares about other people. Most people are busy with their emotional needs. Frank found a long-lost emotional dependence in his slow running-in with the little robot.

Frank, a habitual thief in his youth, would usually prove his former glory through petty thefts in convenience stores. Unexpectedly, an accidental soap stealing incident made him discover the robot's sensitivity and ignorance of the law.

Frank falls in love with Jennifer, an elegant librarian. In order to win Jennifer's favor and show that he can do some earth-shattering things, Frank began to plan a theft. After he passed on his lock-picking skills to the robot, he asked the small robot to assist him in stealing the newly renovated library. It was a small trial, and the first trial was successful.

Frank then began planning an even bigger heist, committing a diamond and gem theft. In the end, the attentive police discovered that although Old Frank was old, the little robot's hands were very flexible. In order to protect Frank, the robot told Frank to format himself. He told Frank that as long as he pressed a button on the back of the robot's neck, it could delete all memories. Frank couldn't bear to do this, because after deleting the memory, the past between him and the robot was deleted. That treats the robot as a friend. If it is deleted, the robot will never know Frank again.

There is a scene in the film where Frank was very repulsive when he first took over the robot. He resisted everything the robot asked him to do related to health. The robot told him, if you just think that you don’t want to do it and don’t do it, then have you thought about my ending? If you don't do it, my job is not completed and I will be sent back to the factory and thrown back into the furnace.

For the sake of the robot, Frank began to move according to the robot's operating instructions. I think they had already begun to develop feelings at that time, at least Frank's feelings for the robot that accompanied him day and night.

So when the robot asked Frank to touch the button on the back of his neck in order to delete and format all his memories, Frank couldn't bear to do it. The robot keeps emphasizing that I am a robot and not a human being. It's a bit like in an emotional scene where you have to separate for the good of the other person. It feels like the robot here has feelings.

Then Frank slowly began to accept this fact and pressed the delete button. When I saw this shot, my tears burst out instantly and I was very moved.

In this film, I felt that the robot was not emotionless at all. At least he comforted Frank repeatedly when Frank was asked to press the button in the end. It's like two people who love each other deeply, and one of them is seriously ill. If he doesn't want to hurt the other person, he will say, let me go, or say that I don't like you anymore and quit on my own initiative. This scene is really touching.

Frank pressed the formatting button with his own hands, which in his mind was equivalent to killing his old friend. Therefore, at the end of the film, Frank saw almost every elderly person in the nursing home with a When following a robot of the same model, he no longer had such thoughts, just because, no matter how similar the two robots were, they were not the same friends after all!

Sometimes I think that maybe one day in the future, scientists will have developed a robot that can replace human emotions. Is it a blessing or a misfortune?

Because robots can control their emotions through programming, and people cannot tell whether the robot's emotions are real or fake. Once a person falls in love with a robot, it will be difficult to disappear.

This is difficult to handle, as if one person has developed feelings for another person, and the other person is simply using him. The person who gives his feelings first will end badly. Therefore, once in the future this robot can simulate human emotions and input emotions to engage in love, hate, and hatred, what a terrifying thing it will be, because emotions are manipulated. People who are emotionally invested have been manipulated between heaven and hell.

However, maybe, if science really develops to that point, maybe the human brain can also be manipulated. By inputting a chip, all previous memories can be deleted. When you want to forget someone's At that time, it would be very simple to insert another chip and delete all the previous records. Is this considered lucky?

If emotions can be manipulated, then what is the point of living in the world? They have all become animals or machines. What is the real difference between machines and people?

From another point of view, it is indeed a very painful thing for a person who is deeply in love to be emotionally invested and then betrayed, and it is difficult for him to let go. If a chip can be inserted to delete the previous memory, For him, it was a lucky event, and it seemed like a very lucky thing indeed.

But what if it is used by someone with ulterior motives? Two people who originally had a good relationship, but one of them has his memory deleted by a chip inserted into him and has lost feelings for the other person. What a cruel thing it would be for the other person!

Hey, how do we know how far science will develop in the future? There are already welding robots and restaurant service robots. In the future, there will be emotional companion robots and housekeeper robots to talk to you. Take care of your food and daily life, and even accompany you to date and have sex... You can customize your nanny and lover according to your own preferences. Alas, is this a blessing or a misfortune?

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