BBCNEWS The Film Review June 4, 2024 16:52:00
This guy is so lonely that he kind of builds himself a companion, and the companion looks ridiculous. it's a big box with a small head that calls itself charles. and, ok, on one level, that shouldn't work at all, but it does, and it works for two reasons. firstly, the film isn't about robots. what it's about is companionship and friendship and the universal need to have companionship and friendship. and secondly, an awful lot of it is to do with, look, you either buy into this or you don't, and at first when you look at it, you think, "that is the most absurd robot i'v e v e r se e n p. but th...