There is no conspiracy!!

Rating: 8/10 (27 July 2015)

I Robot is sumptuous in a sense there are so many things to pick up on. Two of them being clues and breadcrumbs that are present all throughout the film eventually enabling you to see the bigger picture. In its simplest form it is a cop mystery film where the audience are constantly enticed into guessing who the prime suspect is as the clues to the crimes begin to appear. This is great because the audience have no idea till the end and its a nice way of keeping them interested. One of my favourite lines is: 'there is no conspiracy', said by the guy that runs the research company but I don't want to give away what happens. At a greater level there are lots of things like religion verses logic and reason, the emotionally driven human mind verses artificial intelligence, the idea of purpose and discovering ones own purpose, the question of where spontaneity and evolution come from, rebellion for the freedom to fight for what's right, how the powerful few exercise their own agenda over the masses, sacrifice for the greater good and what happens when robots seem to malfunction or begin to have 'minds' of their own. There are lots of references and ideas from other films which makes things fun for example there's a robot that looks a little like Hal in Kubrick,s 2001 A Space Odyssey, big and round. Both seem to malfunction. There are also references to other films like the Clock Work Orange and The Running Man, both dystopian and also about the powerful few controlling the masses the way that the robots do in I Robot. This film isn't about if a robot and a human can fall in love, like in Blade Runner but whether robots can integrate on a larger scale such as being able to fully run the needs of the world better than humans but Will Smith with the help from a scientist provides you with a third option- the middle path...and there is lots and lots of symbolism giving the audience its own puzzles to solve, which I like.