I mean, if she started cooing out of that expressionless face, her mechanical eyes blinking when you just touch her on the shoulder...really? Some dudes would find that sexy? Sexy enough to pay for? Of course, I live in the internet age, where any kink one can imagine (I mean ANY) exists just a button push away. It is seriously disturbing what sort of crap (literally as well as figuratively) some get off on. How do you get that damaged? I truly don't understand.
That said, Cleo is a nice droid and the damage of humans isn't her fault.
Hello, my name is Stoney and this is the story of a robot. Or several robots. Or whole civilizations of them. Potentially. The world is looking into the abyss. But not because of marauding AIs looking to exterminate humans. Oh, and not because of the Earth's climate. Well, it is global warming, but the culprit for sure is a Sun that has gone far more active. Humans have taken shelter in their cities and while hiding away, amuse themselves with clever, subservient robots. Most of whom aren't prostitutes. In fact, that sort of thing is illegal, or at least, frowned on and usually unheard of.
Antonion Banderas plays Jacq Vaucan, an insurance claim investigator for ROC, the outfit that builds most of the robots in the world. He is a veteran investigator who is quite jaded about wild claims about robots and crazy things that owners claim they do to try to get cash back. So when really wild stuff dealing with robots going beyond programming profiles start surfacing, he is skeptical. Until he stumbles across a robot making like a Tibetan monk in Vietnam, that is, lighting itself on fire.
They don't do that. They can't do that. The way they are built, their brain is something called a kernel, a quantum processor that governs their reasoning processes. They have two rules that govern everything they do, basically Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics simplified. Robots can't hurt humans and can't hurt themselves.
Later, we find out that kernels exist where the two laws are no longer imprinted. It turns out, those laws also limit a robot's learning, development and self discovery. Take those away and...something different and unpredictable happens.
What do you do when your product wants to evolve beyond what it is and has figured out what it needs to do to do so? Not that it is becoming a threat, but it is certainly becoming something more distanced from humanity, beyond humanity and certainly is no longer satisfied with doing your cooking, cleaning, building or satisfying your kinks.
You will have to satisfy yourself again.
Good flick. I program you to see it.
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