The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 2001 Page: 24 of 28
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Law. A.I. (Artificial Intelli-
gence) ia set in the distant future,
when global warming has flooded
coastal cities and the remnants of
hate them and they persecute
them. But David just loves that
awful mother and through all his
misadventures longs to be a real
little boy so she will love him back.
The story it based explicitly on
Pinocchio But the Pinocchio
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New releases coming soon: an-
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Fear and a top notch family film.
Silver Wolf. Watch for their re-
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society are waited upon by con-
vincingly human robots who pro-
vide such services as house
cleaning, child care and sexual
satisfaction. It is about what hap-
•>°ns when scientists build the
first child robot tOsment} eanablp
of love, to ease the loneliness of
childless parents, asking what
might happen if this loving, syn-
thetic creature is not loved in re-
turn. AJ. is based on a Brian
Aldiss 1969 story that was later
worked into a screen play which
the late Stanley Kubrick labored
over before suggesting to Steven
Spielberg that he direct it. Unfor-
tunately the blending of
Spielberg’s pop exaltations and
Kubrick’s dread and metaphysi-
cal dismay makes A.L a strange
and confusing movie. Haley Joel
Osment (an extraordinarily gifted
young actor), is the child robot; an
absolutely perfect child. Yet his
adoptive parents Monica (Fran-
ces O'Connor) and Henry
Swin ton (Sam Robarda), are un-
nerved by him—especially after
their real son, Martin, who has
been cryogenciaiiy preserved
while a cure was sought for a dis-
ease that he contracted, suddenly
recovers. Martin, jealous, tries
hard to destroy David, building a
few moments of horror-film ten-
sion into the story. Now scared of
David, Monica rejects him and
turns him loose in the forest Da-
vid becomes an outcast and falling
among other robots, including
Joe (Law), a programmed
stud-gigolo. Joe is more beautiful
than any human. Frisky in a
high -gloss black coat, he dances
his way through the pul, a candid
and utterly charming machine.
(When Jude Law is around, the
movie ia absolutely magical But
in true Kubncknesa, there is a
much darker purpose afoot all of
the robots are outcasts. Humans
was a scamp, redeemed by the
love of his woodcarver father. In
A.I. David is the ultimate
goody-goody; he is the spirit of
pure, yearning adoration. That’s
his sole dimension—he’s ro-
bot—and in the end of this
multi-layered, very long movie,
he ultimately tries our patience as
the story pours a foundation of
despair over every aspect. Any
genuine emotion just drops out of
it While there's much to admire
in A.I., beginning with the bril-
liant special effects and the re-
markable physical production,
the movie itself seems to have
been scavenged from used parts,
come of them trivial, some of
them powerful, many of them
grandiose. And finally, for a saga
that's concerned with humanity’s
perilous present and closed fu-
ture, A.I. lacks the human touch
that made Steven Spielberg fa-
mous. PG-13
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SHADOW HOURS: (2000)
Balthazar Getty, Rebecca
Gayheart, Peter Weller, Brad
Dourif. This limited theatrical re-
lease and now direct-to-seli movie
is a sexy, film noir mystery that
explores Los Angeles after dark,
‘where demons rule." A true dia-
mond in the rough, Michael
Halloway (Getty) ia forced to take
a graveyard shift at a gas station
to support his young family. One
night, Michael meets Stuart
Chappell (Weller), an elegant and
enigmatic man. This mysterious
man lures Michael into a very
strange and a potentially deadly
underworld. Now Michael must
fight to escape his temptations if
he ever wants to see his family
again. Shadow Hours is s great
thriller, available on VHS and
DVD July 31st from York Enter-
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 2001, newspaper, July 12, 2001; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736047/m1/24/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.