Pleasures of the Night
the absence of light forces us to use our imagination and fill the blanks; creating your own fantasy of what she looks like.
I think you’re afraid of letting go. I think you’re afraid of happiness; and this is starting to excite me. Are you afraid of seeing the stars? I can show you how to reach them.
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| — | Gigolo Joe, Artificial Intelligence |
I watched Artificial Intelligence (2001) for the first time since seeing the theatrical release. The journey of an android child who risks his life through thick and thin to become a real boy and obtain his mother’s love. I thought about the Uncanny Valley theory,
“when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The “valley” in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot’s human likeness.”
Gigolo Joe (Jude Law) melted me back then and successfully melted again.
“you’re fast, lady.” - Mugen
Also: do you remember this scene dubbed in English? The American VA’s were Steven Blum (Spike) and Wendee Lee (Faye) of Cowboy Bebop. tsss~steamy.
