BBCNEWS The Film Review June 4, 2024 22:52:00
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 then that absurdity becomes childlike, and when charles goes out into the garden, for example, he says, "how far does the outside go? does it go beyond the tree?" and i was thinking of room — you know, the questions that are asked with the young survivor o...