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‘A.I.’ at 25: Spielberg Film Feels More Unsettling than Ever

The film still unsettles viewers because its questions about love, consciousness and companionship remain unresolved as artificial intelligence advances.

Summary by Times of Malta
A quarter of a century ago, Steven Spielberg released one of the most unusual films of his career: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a futuristic fairytale about a robot boy programmed to love.Yet the movie’s origins lay not with Spielberg but another giant of cinema. For more than two decades, Stanley Kubrick had wrestled with the project,...

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Why Steven Spielberg’s AI movie still feels unsettling today

Released in 2001, A.I. arrived years before smartphones, social media and the boom in artificial intelligence

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Steven Spielberg (79) is one of the most influential characters of the science fiction cinema - movies like "E.T. - Der Extraterrestriale", Jurassic Park or "War of the Worlds" are long ago milestones of the genre. But even the director's old-timer sometimes flashes off: As actors and comedian Seth Rogen (44) now revealed in a contribution on X, Spielberg tried in vain to acquire the film rights for a remake of the Sci-Fi cult film "The Last Sta…

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