Bicentennial Man Film Review

1. How does the Writer/Director depict Andrewss development of communication?

The Director depicts Andrewss communication through the use of body language this is because
body language is extremely persuasive; it has that same subtle courtliness that Williams himself
often uses. Andrew also has good timing, which is crucial, since many of the movie's payoffs
depend on the robot expressing its feelings through body language. ("One would like to have
more expression," Andrew complains at one point. "One has thoughts and feelings that presently
do not show."
2. How does the Writer/Director convey the changing of time setting through 20 decades?
This film is set San Francisco, California. Because the film follows the lifetime of Andrew, a 200
year-old robot, the time frame of this setting ranges from the twenty-first century, when Andrew
is purchased by the Martin family, to the twenty-third century, when Andrew passes away. The
director is able to convey the changing of time setting through 20 decades by using the same
scene in the living room when Little miss was teaching Andrew how to play the piano.
Proceeding to the next scene you see Little Miss as an adult playing and is playing an advanced
song with Andrew. The director uses a unique way of forwarding the setting of the movie
200years because he never actually tells the audience the movie has forwarded in time e instead
he just transitions to the next scene.

3. How are the two factors that support and oppose Andrewss progress depicted in the
film?
The two factors which support and oppose Andrewss progress are portrayed in the film as
characters. For example Little Miss really would like to accept Andrew as family member and
treat him like everyone else, however her older sister disposes that idea and sees him as a robot
and only a robot. Little miss supports Andrew and wants to see progress she even takes it to the
point where she wants to make him a bank account regardless of the fact that a robot would no
use in spending money. Little miss convinces her father to help make a bank account for a robot,
so her father uses his connections to eventually make it possible.

4. The movie communicates a moral question of what constitutes being human. Using at
least two outside sources cited within the answer discuss your reaction to this question and
how the director applies the human condition to Andrew. Why does the Audience want to
accept Andrew as a human?
People often use the phrase, I am only human, as an excuse for making mistakes. We all know
and understand what it means to be human. Yet, when it comes to defining what being human
means in the world, the question does not quickly yield a simple answer. We do not want,
however, to make a mistake in finding the right answer to this question. In the film Bicentennial
Man starring Robin Williams a robot goes on a quest to become human; he even changes his
physical features making him look human so the naked eye could be oblivious to his real robotic
features. He develops emotions and beings to feel pain like everyone else. He makes an appeal
for him to be recognized as human by the universe, however the simple fact that cannot die
disposes the idea of him being human and his appeal fails. After some more scientific
experiments he becomes programmed to have a life span and will eventually age and die. I feel
as through the director wants us to like Andrew, but it is difficult at a human deathbed to identify
with the aluminum mourner. This is why I believe that the audience actually dos not want to
accept Andrew as a human.

I personally belive the audenicne does not want to accept Andrew as a human it is difficult at a
human deathbed to identify with the aluminum mourner.

Cited work
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-materialism/ch05.html
http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.ca/2005/10/what-constitutes-human.html