Bicentennial Man

         Overall, the film Bicentennial Man portrayed a beautiful view on the creation of a robot. In the film, the robot known as NDR was then named Andrew by the family he was introduced in. The husband and wife has two young little girls, whom Andrew would spend his time taking care of as well. Andrew was an extraordinary robot whose duty was to do housework, but aside showed human like characteristics such as curiosity and social skills. There is also a scene in the film in which Andrew shows some type of emotion, when they take the trip to the beach. The youngest, also know as "little miss", decided to show Andrew her favorite glass horse which was then broken when dropped by Andrew. Of course, little miss was upset about the incident and so Andrew decided to make her a horse out of beach wood. Without being told to recreate a horse for little miss, Andrew still decides too. Today, we all see robots in a negative way believing they are capable of concurring the world and terminating humans. In my opinion this film portrayed the creation of a robot in a spectacular way. It even made me want to have my own "Andrew". This robot showed many great characteristics, which were never evil in any way. Towards the end of the film, Andrew decided he wants to feel like a complete human and ends up feeling true emotion by falling in love with Portia. Andrew also states, "I would rather die a man than to live an eternity as a machine". In some way, it is quite frightening to see robots wanting to be considered human because if it comes into play in the future we will never be able to distinguish man from robot. Although there may be many negative consequences through this type of artificial intelligence I believe if the world were to create robots like Andrew, we would not need to fear termination or losing possible jobs. I really enjoyed the film, and the way Andrew portrayed himself and the characteristics he held.