The Flesh Fair Movie Analysis

Summary

The movie begins in the not-so-far future where the greenhouse gases have caused the polar icecaps to melt, flooding coastal cities in the world, which resulted in the lack of land resources, and thus, lead to over-population. In order to combat over-population, people wishing to have children must apply for a license and the process is not easy. However, being forced to withdraw to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps improving in which reaching to the point of creating realistic robots to serve them. One of the major robots-producing companies wishes to enhance their artificial intelligence technology, which leads them to build “David”, an artificial robot that has real feelings, especially a never-ending love for

Unlike other typical Mechas in which they are all designed to perform a specific task to serve humans. For example, Gigolo Joe who was designed as male prostitute Mecha programmed with the ability to mimic love. David gives the audiences an illusion that he is a real human being, raising the debate among the humans because the robot does not genuinely love. For example, throughout the movie, when the audiences in “The Flesh Fair” were cheering to destroy the unwanted Mechas, which including David and Gigolo Joe along with the others. David acted differently than the other Mechas claiming that “Please don’t make me die! I am David!. This scene raises the debate among the audiences where they think David is not a machine because they do not have the ability to express such emotions. In fact, all it can do is run the programs as intrusted by a human. Overall, this is what we need to be talking about in the A.I. debate. Not the discussion with regards to ethical or unethical, but the potential of creating slaves with just as much sentience as us, and using it to justify cruel

Now, 17 years later, we have seen much more technologies that shown in the movie are becoming a reality in modern’s days. However, we have not created the realistic humanoid robots we see in the movie, but I also do not believe that it will exist in the near future. As a matter of fact, the Gigolo Joe that played by Jude Law might be the only advancement that makes senses consider the fact that the only reason to give robots bodies like our own would be to have sex with them instead of the new type of robot “David” who is designed to have human emotions. From a scientific point of view, “David” is extremely silly. After all, humanoid robots are not particularly good at anything because it is difficult and pointless to replicate through engineering. Robots are created in a way to help human to solve the problem with higher accuracy and efficiency, and a robot shaped like a person has way too many flaws. Thus, it is useless to build a humanoid robot to love. Also, we always forget the fact that the majority of the people simply do not want robots to look like human due to the “uncanny valley”. When something artificial looks too much like a human, we are instantly forced