The Trouble with Being Born

Android sci-fi and memories. Androids that eat regular food and smell "cigarettes and sunscreen." Recalls elements of a superior US play/movie called "Marjorie Prime." The regeneration of androids with memories is scary in the real world. The first segment implies sexual relationships, though no explicit scene is shown. The relationship of animals with androids and humans are a minor subplot (a cat in one segment, a dog in the other. The reincarnated android is bizarre but typical of the horror genre; yet this is not a horror film. The title of the film is also the title of an unrelated book on philosophy by E M Cioran in French, written using aphorisms. "Marjorie Prime'' was comparatively a superior sci-fi film on memories and the importance of virtual human beings.

Provocative but wholly unoriginal, exceptionally dull, dreary, disinteresting, and nonsensical - the effects of replicating people and the reasons for doing it are captured in far more elegant evaluations through the films of others.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but as another review mentions this movie is too spineless to properly say what it wants to say and not interesting enough to keep my attention with the premises it sets up, the worst part is that the most poignant and inflammatory topic is one that i feel we are starting to see pop up in real life with AI, and this movie could have tried...something anything...instead...it did nothing... not giving it a ranking since i didn't finished it but if the last 30 minutes are as dull, in the plot as the first hour, and the camera work as bad then i didn't missed anything of value.

I really can't understand why directors shoot films with literally no lighting. If they want me to "appreciate" what they are doing then I have to see the thing in the first place. At the beginning, I gave it the benefit of the doubt as I assumed it was some kind of "pre-birth" scene from the child's perspective but that wasn't it at all and - be warned - this happens again and again throughout the film.

As for the content itself, previously I had the Kubrick/Spielberg "AI" film down as *the* most boring film I had ever seen about child robots - but this one has it beaten hands down. At one level this presents a couple of plausible scenarios as to what grieving / damaged people might do with this kind of technology once/if it becomes available and maybe I could have worked harder to look for some kind of deep and meaningful conclusions if they are indeed there, but it didn't earn that, I felt.

Not recommended.

What an absolutely dreadful movie. It is truly awful and creepy. And it made absolutely NO sense whatsoever. My biggest regret is that I watched it until the end. But that's because I kept waiting for the story to develop - only it didn't. There was this one point in the movie where I thought it was going to, but then it just took this super weird turn and basically spun this second, completely unrelated story that also made no sense. Though they were trying to connect the two with the appearance of the "father" in the second part, but that made no sense either and connected absolutely nothing. Do yourself a favor and skip this horrible movie.