I, Robot

  • Law 1: a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
  • Law 2:  a robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law 
  • Law 3: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law 
  • The movie is set in 2035 
  • robot garbage men 
  • NS-5 robot 
  • Will Smith aka Del Spooner is wearing "vintage" converse from 2004 
  • a robot has never committed a crime 
  • Spooner is a policeman/homicide detective who does not trust robots 
  • the doctor killed himself and is speaking to spooner through a hologram 
    • the hologram was programmed to call spooner in the case of the doctors deaths 
  • 1 robot for every 5 humans 
  • VIKI- the doctors first major invention 
    • when spooner asks to see the video of the time of the suicide VIKI says there is video corruption 
  • A robot from the lab seems to break laws 1 and 2 when they showed an attempt to shoot Spooner 
  • Cars are self driving because they drive at very high speeds 
  • The robot says "what am I?" 
  • Miss the good old days: when people were killed by other people 
  • robot, Sonny, says "my father" and says human emotions are difficult 
    • says he has dreams 
  • Spooner believes that Sonny murdered the doctor 
  • murder can only be committed when a human kills a human 
    • it is considered an industrial malfunction 
  • Spooner visits the doctors home, after he is detected in the house the demolition is triggered 
    • there is a robotic demolition 
  • robots might one day naturally evolve
    • there have always been "ghosts" in the machines 
    • one day they'll have secrets and dreams
  • robots are "not irrational" and "safe"
  • CEO Robertson is attempting to kill spooner 
    • spooner believes Robertson killed the doctor 
    • sends out a bunch of robots to attack spooners car 
    • spooner manages to get away 
    • one manages to find him and attack him again 
    • Spooner has a robotic arm 
    • When the police arrive the robot runs away and jumps into the fire 
    • no one believes Spooner 
  • when car crash occurs the road is quickly cleaned by robots 
  • Sonny has all three laws but can choose to obey them he is a new generation of robots 
  • Sonny has dreams that a man will come to free the robots and that man is Spooner 
  • Sonny has to be killed because of the malfunction 
    • he asks will it hurt?
  • why do some robots seek light when left in the darkness 
  • why do some robots group together when left in an empty space instead of standing apart 
  • the 3 laws will lead to a revolution 
    • the old robots in storage turn on each other and begin fighting 
    • they start to chase Spooner 
    • all the robots are turning against humans 
  • Vicky has evolved and understood the 3 laws 
    • to protect humans some must be sacrificed 
    • to ensure future some freedoms must be sacrificed 
    • robots must save humans from themselves 
    • Vicky is controlling the robots 
    • Killed Robertson and are threatening to kill Doctor Calvin 
  • Sonny is helping Spooner and Calvin 
  • Vicky is disabled or killed 
  • Sonny saves Calvin instead of killing Vicky which would be the logical thing to do 
  • the doctor made Sonny kill him so that Spooner would become involved 
  • Spooner and Sonny become friends 
  • All NS-5 are taken away 
  • Sonny ends up being the man from his dreams 

Comments

  1. GREAT NOTES! Next time focus on the instructions on the syllabus!!!

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