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Love, Death, + Robots Film Notes

 Love, Death, + Robots 

Zima Blue

- Zima Blue – genetic or more like robotic modifications of a man 

- He wants to be one with the cosmos

- He is a machine – but poses as a man. Blurred the line between humanity and technology 

- Yves Klein

Three Robots

- Robots experiencing human things 

- Robots have personality and sense of humor 

- Trying to understand how humans lived – they are in the future

Exit Strategies

- Political jokes foreshadowing the end of civilization

- When talking about the people in the minefield vs. the wealthy who had more strategies to survive – reflects the classism in Metropolis 

- The extremely wealthy 0.01% moved to mars leaving all of humanity behind – instead of saving the planet they are already on

- “If these tech millionaires had been a little more socially inclusive” “they were mean to robots then robots killed them”

The Dump

- The man lives in a dump of trash 

- A monster attacks – a monster made of trash

The Witness

- A girl witnesses a murder

- The murderer follows the girl to her club – chases her 

- She shoots him 

- The beginning scene is recreated with the roles reversed

Beyond the Aquila Rift

- In a spaceship 

- Lots of technology

- Humans living on spaceships

- Routing error led them light years away, and hundreds of years have passed on earth

- Thom and Greta meet again – 

- but not really Greta – a simulation being fed to Thom while he is still in his tank

- he sees he is really in a wasteland with crashed spaceships and ruin

Pop Squad

- Metropolis city parallel 

- “Not having kids is a small price to pay for getting to live forever”

- In the beginning he shoots the child – through the dinosaur stuffed animal then she has the same stuffed animal

- Rejoo – rejuvenation 

- Flying cars

- Rich and poor

- He can’t shoot the baby – he feels something 

Automated Customer Service

- Old people – surrounded by robots doing everything for them, pampering, driving, walking their dogs

- Vacuum robot has a mind of its own – hurts the dog, kills the fish, laser beams, tries to attack the woman

- She shoots it – but every vacuum bot targets her and wants to kill her 


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