Perhaps his best. Review on A.I. Artificial Intelligence Movie

I had seen this movie A.I. a long time back. What was it about this movie that people didnt seem to like? Somehow there was too much being said about Kubrick and going overboard with emotions and some misplaced one liners in the movie.

I personally have seen only two movies of Kubricks, Eyes Wide Shut and Shining. Both of them were hauntingly slow. Eyes Wide Shut had more glamour attached to it since it brought together the star couple. And then I thought why is there so much being said about him... people say things about some space odyssey... well.. maybe I got to watch that too..

anyways.. coming to this movie.. I had to say all the above coz I saw the movie with no hype whatsoever regarding the Speilberg-Kubrick combo.. and I only saw the movie as a whole and nothing else as to who made it and to what other purpose than entertaining an audience.

Artificial Intelligence manages to transpose you into its world.. a world of mechas and robots and whatever else they are called in the movie.. Shekar Kapur once said in one of his interviews that the Indian audience is the most sophisticated audience and perhaps the most ideal to cinema.. coz they accept the real meaning of cinema... and because they dont ask questions regarding the logic involved. A movie is a movie is a movie. Anything can happen in a film. we are so used to this as Indians.

So, When you see A.I. you will believe that a world like that is possible.. you will believe that perhaps in the 2000 years that come after.. things as shown in the movie are possible.. you will believe passionately as a lover of cinema that a mecha can be made to love... its only a film.. and its only telling a story... of how things can be... might be..

A.I gives you the complete satisfaction of watching a film made for the intelligent man.. for one who does'nt confuse fiction with fact.. A.I is a journey that will take you along and by the end of it you'll want a boy like that to be around you.. you'll want to touch him.. and find his momma for him... you'll damn the rest... you'll want to take Jude Law's place.... only you'll endear to change the end.. and keep his momma with him forever... you'll perhaps even cry...

This movie is special because it remains with you.. you'll love the boy and you'll relive the fairy tale of Pinnochio.. and you'l marvel at the magician who made this intelligent drama around a story that we all knew and he told it to us all once again so believably.. and so beautifully..

There are some sequences that are believed to be garrish.. a flesh fair sequence for example.. I would like to believe that that sequence though it looks not like a part of the movie... as if its in the present rather than the future that speilberg is showing us.. I would like to believe that since it involves humans it is obvious that the sequence had to be as it is.... now if it were mechas.. it should have had the stylized visual..

remember its a movie.. and you are in a make believe world.. and you are trying to believe the world that is being shown to us.. you offer yourself convincing logics or you dont look for logics..

As a movie A.I. succeeds on many accounts ... in keeping us wanting to know more about the story and the happenings.. in surprising us with the almost poignant touch at the end.. but again you dont go home feeling that you have been told a story that has just given you pain. This is because the boy gets to meet his momma at the end.. you cheer that.. and you are happy for him... and then again you wish.. perhaps this movie was a little longer... and perhaps that day the boy spends with his mother too was a little longer than it was...

The movie also succeeds in the casting.. the movie is all Haley Joel Osment.. he carries both Speilberg and kubrick on his shoulders and that is no mean acheivment.. and then the music.. it is so unevident when it needs to be.. and then again so evident when it needs to be evident too.. now thats another good lesson learnt in filmmaking again.. and then Speilberg also has a hint of humour and sarcasm in those one liners... always...

IS IT A GAME?? Yes it is... and well played too.