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Bicentennial Man (1999) - 7 corrections

starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill (add more)

Genres: Sci-fi, Drama, Romance

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'Little Miss' (Grace) is shown to be about 5-7 years old at the beginning of the movie, and her sister Amanda is about 5 years older than that. When 'Little Miss' is shown as a young adult 15 years later, she is apparently somewhere around 20-25 years old. However, her 'older' sister Amanda is shown to still be a teenager 'making out' with her boyfriend on his motorcycle. The sister is about ten years younger than she should be according to the storyline. [Let's say Little Miss was five, and her sister was ten. Fifteen years later, Little Miss would have been twenty and her sister twenty five. Consider these two things: One, children are "leaving home" later and later in life even now. This is the future, and it stands to reason the trend would have continued; especially where these girls' parents are very wealthy. Two, it never says Amanda is still a teenager. She's just immature, rebellious, and acting how you believe teenagers act.]

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Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Robotics" are stringently enforced within this movie. However, when Andrew is told to jump out the window by Amanda early in the film, this would have been in direct conflict with the law that states that a robot "must protect itself and cannot do self-harm unless to protect a human from harm." Andrew jumping out the window cannot reasonably be explained as protecting any human from harm. [The three laws are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Ordering Andrew to jump out of a window is part of the second law (must obey human orders), and since it doesn't conflict with the first law, he has to do it. The third law (protecting its own existence) doesn't count if a human orders the robot to harm itself.]

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In the world of Issac Asimov robots, the three laws are immutable. At the beginning Andrew makes a lavish presentation of the three laws. At the end of the film, Galatea breaks the first law (not to harm) in order to conform to the second law (obey orders). The three laws are hierarchical in that the first law takes precedence over the second. In Asimov stories, the contradiction between the laws most often causes paralysis of the robot in question. [Galatea is not causing harm. Andrew and Portia are dying anyway, and all she does is let them. Any doctor would do the same, and they also make the same promise, to, if nothing else, do no harm. There's also the fact that Galatea is very much human at that point, so who knows if she is still held to those three laws?]

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