An analysis of Bicentennial Man on the important social, cultural, and political issues.
...daughter “Little Miss” “you can’t invest your emotions in a machine”. Andrew is just a household appliance that has duties to obey and serve human being. However, a controversy occurs among the members of this family when “Little Miss” replies her father “It doesn’t matter what he is, Andrew deserves to benefit from what he does”. This gives an idea to get Andrew a bank account to save the money from his works and begins to accept him as a member of family, which is a position in this society. One day, after years of reading and learning from a pile of books. Andrew gets an idea and asks his owner if he can obtain “Freedom” (We will deeply discuss about “Freedom” in cultural issue). A long journey begins with the word “Freedom” and makes him away from the Martin family. However, after two generations of the Martin family have passed away. Andrew realizes that there is an important thing he needs: “Family”. He comes back to the next Martin generation: Portia, a granddaughter in “Little Miss” and asks her for the “Relationship”. Cultural issue “Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea: Freedom” (Bicentennial Man 1999, motion picture, Columbia Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Culver City). This idea seems to be very important to human being since an ancient time as we can be noticed by the historic records. There were many wars that caused by the word “Freedom”. Andrew defines himself as a robot in human part, which is “Heart”. Being a human; he thinks he should not longer be commanded by the Martin family, even if “Little Miss” explains that it is not a command at all since they accepted Andrew into this family but it is actually a request. From this point, Command and Request seem not to be much different because Andrew has to obey no matter he wants to do or not, that’s why he asks for the freedom that allows him to think, perform or deny anything he wishes to. Human has the basic rights that every person has to be treated in a fair, equal way and one of the rights is a “Freedom” that allows people to do whatever they want without being restricted or controlled by someone else. Political issue Laws of Robotics First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction, cause a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey all human orders except where those orders come in conflict with the first law. Third Law: A robot must protect itself so long as doing so does not conflict with the first two laws. (Bicentennial Man 1999, motion picture, Columbia Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Culver City) Most of Sci-Fi movies limit the robot rights and confine the place for a robot, so they will not be free to do or stay where actually they want. Because of their structure that mostly made from a metal and the intelligence brain that can think faster and more accurate than human being. So human has to prevent themself from a dange...