Bicentennial Man1999

“𝕆𝕟𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪. 𝕋𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕒, 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕕𝕠𝕞. 𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕥 𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕞𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕤𝕠 𝕞𝕦𝕔𝕙 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕠 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕡𝕖𝕠𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕙 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕘.” This is what it’s all about. Many times I have felt like I have to prove my humanity instead of it being inherent due to my existence. I think the mere desire for humanity (or lack thereof) is the very thing that makes one human. Humanity is as evil, cruel, and corrupt as it is beautiful, kind, and good.  Bicentennial Man is a very sweet film. Perhaps too sweet for most people’s palates, but I am a pretty sensitive person, and I’m always charmed by movies like this. And of course, Robin Williams could squeeze humanity out of a stone.  I love the designs for Andrew and the world at large. This is a very EPCOT-coded movie. Timeless in its depiction of a utopian world where people only have time to create art and restore historical objects and teach robots to be human.  It seems now that it’s a shocking notion that if one exists, then one deserves to live. And to help your fellow man even in a theoretical sense is passé or trite. We have never been more inhuman than we are now, never more corrupt, and never more lost.  One prays for a time when things will be set to right, and one will feel proud to be human again.