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"Deeply disturbing"

WARNING: SPOILERS!

Greg, let me start out by saying that I thought you were the best actor in "Robot Stories." I had no idea until I came to this site that it was you playing the android. I thought the guy playing the android was white:) Anyways, I saw the films last Friday in LA. I'm still not sure how I feel about it but I know that the first film "My Robot Baby" was deeply disturbing for me to watch. I say this because I've known so many families where the parents simply did not deserve to be parents. Anyone can physically make a baby but not everyone can be a parent. It takes a certain kind of person to be a parent. The woman played by Tamilyn should NEVER be allowed to adopt a child. I really felt bad for that poor robot baby. She dropped the baby on the floor, showed absolutely no affection, and left him home all by himself during the day to fend for himself. In the scene where they are sitting by her computer and the baby is unresponsive, I literally thought she had killed her baby. What would she have done with a real baby? It felt like a horror story to me. When the baby poked her and scurried away I wasn't scared of the baby turned problem child, I was scared of the mother. What kind of person chases a poor defenseless little baby around and curses him out? She was mental and I would've been happy if the baby Robot stabbed her to death with his little metal poker thingy. Ok, maybe that's going too far, but man was she a B**ch. I was really shocked that it ended the way that it did because I didn't think it was realistic. A person like her (with a chemical imbalance in her brain) is too mental to just break down after one flash back and change into a loving, caring mother. It just doesn't work that way with crazy folks. I just did not buy her sincerity. A mother who doesn't love her child in the first place doesn't all of a sudden love him one day cuz he did something cute that reminded her of herself. Also, it displaces the blame from the mother to the child because it says that all he had to do was something cute in order to make her change. My 2 cents.

-- Mi, Los Angeles

March 14, 2004 12:01 PM