Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence is a visually stunning and thematically complex film that asks deep questions about love and reality as man seeks to make himself in God's image. Through interactions with the artificial child and his "foster parents", the role of the mechas in society, and the responsibility taken for the creation of advanced technology, this film definitely questions the future role of man's responsibility for his actions, as well as the quality of his morality.
             Starting off, the movie takes place in a future where the greenhouse effect has melted the polar ice caps, submerging many coastal cities including New York, driven the population inland and caused violently chaotic weather. To make do with dwindling resources, humans have created robots that lack the ability to feel, called mechas, and some societies have become prosperous by strictly limiting the number of children families can have. This aspect of the film portrays robots as a greater equal than humans, for they can get the job done without having to deal with as much problems. This scene portrays humans of the future as losing feeling and heart, for they would rather deal with robots than their own kind. It is proposed that creating a line of child mechas that will imprint on their parents and love them unconditionally forever, hence, artificial children. This raises a question as whether a parent would be capable of loving something that isn't real. Implying that humans have become selfish and only concerned with the way they feel. The first artificial child, David, is given to a couple, Monica and Henry, who lost their own child to some disease and is locked up in some freezer waiting for a cure. The couple has a difficult time adjusting with the child but eventually it seems to bring some life back into their marriage. Once again the theme of human selfishness is brought up. David does all in his power to make...