A.I.

[semperfiona]

I rented A.I. the other day. It was due yesterday and I forgot to return it, so I thought I'd watch it tonight. I've just turned it off, about an hour into it, because it hurt too much to watch. The poor robo-boy (as he was just called by a technician fixing him) was being tormented by everyone around, and everything he did--was provoked into doing--ended up looking like endangerment of the other people even though it was done through love or fear.

It felt too much like the outsider-ness of my own childhood. I decided that I didn't need to subject myself to any more of it and turned off the video.