A.I. Artificial Intelligence-David is Abandoned

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For my essay on humanoid films in 21L.706. No copyright infringement intended; all rights go to the creators. David, a "mecha" boy is abandoned by Monica, who he has come to know as "mommy". In an attempt to gain Monica's love and acceptance, David, becomes determined to find the blue fair …...more
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"I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the world." Final words of a mother abandoning her child. One hell of a sad movie.
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Watched this movie when i was 7 years old. This scene scarred me for life. It is so well acted and emotional and also as a child i couldn't understand the reason a mother would abandon her child like this, even if he was a robot. My little heart broke.
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I wonder if this is how dogs feel when they're abandoned?
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Abandoning David was the most heartbreaking scene for me. A.i. or not, he expresses real emotions and real feelings...just as any normal human child 😢
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this fucking movie was fucking heartbreaking
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This scene is SO MUCH HARDER to watch now that I am a mother. There is no way I could ever do this, real or AI.
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...i am sorry i'm not real.... damn, that line...haunting...
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She abandoned him bet he never gave her up. True son love. Breaks my heart.
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This movie is so sad. The way he sets up the picnic blanket preparing for a nice day with his mom whilst we know she’s about to abandon him is heart wrenching
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It’s so rare that a child actor has the ability to carry a movie but he did it in two great films. This and The Six Sense. And he was also the young Forest in Forest Gump. All he wanted was to be with his mother. The ending is made me cry.
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This scene man... :'( The kid went from robot to full-on-heartbreak-mode so fast that I didn't even know what hit me! :'(
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2:42 "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the world ..." ... heart wrenching - how many parents must have felt like uttering this apology to their own adolescent children???
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I cannot get over how phenomenal of an actor HJO was so young. I WANT TO SEE HIM ACT AGAIN
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The cruelty that humans can inflict on others is beyond belief. This devastating scene shattered viewers' hearts.
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"If you let me I'll be so real for you."
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This part made me cry profusely. This is terribly sad, even for a humanoid robot. It's like if if I left my dog of 10 years out in the woods.
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This was a great movie, but I cried during this part. I just wanted to hug David.
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I remember my mom whispered "this bitch.." when we saw this scene at the movies years ago. I could imagine that alot of other moms felt the same way while watching this scene.
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this movie is just like a punch after punch but it's also a beautiful fairy tale of our time.
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She is not a horrible person. She just wanted to save him from destruction. But I think she should have stood up against her husband and said: "No, he will stay with us."
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My name being David, and...having lost my mother to a disease at age 3...and having spent the rest of my life searching for her...makes this movie almost unwatchable to me...I never had that 'final day' with her... thus the poem... Come away O Human Child To the Waters And The Wild With A Faery Hand In Hand For This Worlds' More Full Of Weeping Than You Can Understand... Can hardly type through my watering eyes... Sergeant David E Yarbough US Army Retired, 2nd Infantry Division 1-9th out of Ft Carson CO, 2nd Platoon Forward Observer, Ar Ramadi, Iraq, OIF5/OIF6...Peace...
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I really hate that she did this to him she knew damn well he loved her as his mom and all he wanted was love, how could she walk away with him crying and begging her and she abandoned him in the woods.... I can't stand her and I don't care what her reason was she should of taken him back to the factory
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It's not often in film that the child's acting outshines the adult's, but Haley Joel Osment absolutely nails this scene.
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"If Pinocchio became a real boy and If I found the blue fairy and she turned me into real boy can I come home?!" :( Makes me sad.
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She did love him. A lot But she didn't want them destroying him David was just too peaceful to understand that
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if you not ready to love somebody..then dont try to give hope to some one else.. cause when love stab your heart..its will hurts for 2 thousand years
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I remember going to see this at the movies with my family when this came out and after this scene, me and my younger sister were just BAWLING... the idea of a mother abandoning her kid in the woods just scared the crap out of me. 
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It's heartbreaking she did the actual abandoning but no one seems to mention the dad was the one who wanted her to get rid of him. It's sad the mom had to do it because she really loved him. You can see the pain in her face, especially when he starts saying I can be so real for you.
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Throughout the first part of the movie, David is often seen slavishly following the code that was burned into his memory when he was first built. It contains a basic set of instructions to start him off, so that he can learn about his surroundings. Every time he breaks away from the code, it gets him into trouble, so he reverts to following his coding more closely. One day, he consults his basic code to try and figure out what to do if he's being abandoned. It gives no response. He has not only lost his adopted mother, but he now he has no internal guidance system to help him. He is now completely alone! :'(
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This is one of the darkest movies I've ever seen. Though the ending TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER is happy.
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I just finished watching this movie, and the ending made me IN TEARS. The first time I cried this hard for a movie. The ending is beautifully sad. I don’t know what to feel. Am I happy for David? Yes. Am I sad for David? Yes. This movie is so emotionally traumatizing. 😭
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this movie is so heartbreaking
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i remember being a kid and couldn't sleep well for days because of this movie, it was so hard for my little self to comprehend why things happened in this movie, i found it depressing and up until now i still do
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This scene was heartbreaking. I was almost 30 when I watched this, but it cut me deep. You can really feel his pain and desperation
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WHAT IS THIS LIQUID COMING FROM MY EYES?!?!?! I remember watching this when I was little and I always remembered it so I searched it up again and watched this and it's so sad!
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I was 12, my mom left me when she passed away. This movie really hits me hard...
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Dammit those ultra spice flavored Doritos! They're so spicy that makes my eyes teary...
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I watched this film again recently. This scene and the scene where he is staring at the blue fairy begging to be made a real boy just breaks my heart. Can’t help but cry at how cruel it would be to abandon a child like that, especially one so devoted to loving you and being a good son.
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I’ll never understand why this movie is SO underrated.
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This movie made me cry a lot. It was very eye opening to me for my waking life. I personally feel like humans were almost fated and designed to suffer with having such strong desires that is not rational or logical to achieve sometimes and this is why we suffer whether it’s a relationship we want with someone who doesn’t love us in return, or the dream job that for some reason keeps rejecting us. Most of us, like this robot kid cannot accept the rejection of our desires so we suffer by not seeing the things around us that we should appreciate in life. If you watch the whole movie he had many characters who truly cared for him and never abandoned him but he just didn’t realize it because he refused to accept that this mother abandoned him! This made me rethink my life and even though it’s not very satisfying at the moment, I try to think more positively and enjoy what I do have as I know everything doesn’t last so every minute of it should be cherished! In the end of the movie he had to wait 2,000 years to pass to finally experience what he was longing for but it only lasted a day! Not worth it in my opinion and this is something I need to take into consideration when pursuing what I desire in my own life!
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