A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Future world. Polar ice caps melted. Coastal cities flooded. Population controlled. Professor Hobby lectures on creating robot child capable of love. Ethical questions. World of limited resources and artificial beings.

Hobby: "If a robot could genuinely love a person, what responsibility does that person hold toward that mecha in return?" Theme of what makes us human, unconditional love, and being truly alive.

Henry and Monica Swinton. Son Martin in suspended animation, terminal illness. Grief and emptiness. Marriage strained. Monica cannot let go. Henry works for Cybertronics. Empty house filled with sadness. Need but fear replacement.

Henry brings home David, prototype robot child programmed to love. Monica hesitant. David activates. Instantly loves Monica unconditionally. She wary. Can she love him back? Impossible situation begins.

Should Monica imprint David or return him? Seven-word code makes love permanent, irreversible. David trying to please. Monica warming to him. Growing attachment. But is he real? Can robot truly love? Is this right?

Monica speaks imprinting words. David now permanently bound to love her. Martin cured, returns home. Jealous. Sets up David to fail. Pool incident. David dangerous? Monica must choose between sons. Cannot keep both. Enters world of rejection.

David and Teddy, robot super-toy. Only one who never leaves David. Unconditional companionship. Represents innocence and loyalty. Through Teddy, we see David pure heart despite being machine. True friendship transcending programming.

David abandoned in woods. Meets Gigolo Joe, love mecha. Rouge City, Flesh Fair - robots destroyed. Escape. Journey to find Blue Fairy to become real boy. Promise: Pinocchio story, child searching for humanity and mother love.

Manhattan - flooded. Find Professor Hobby. David meets hundreds of identical David robots. Not unique. False victory: found creator. But not Blue Fairy. Hobby reveals David modeled after his dead son. Purpose revealed: David is experiment.

David searches underwater Manhattan for Blue Fairy. Trapped in submerged Coney Island. Staring at statue. Praying. "Please make me real." Joe captured. Alone with obsession. Single-minded devotion to impossible wish.

Two thousand years pass. David frozen underwater, still praying. Humanity extinct. Ice age. Everything and everyone he knew gone. Most loyal being in universe waiting for something impossible. Eternal tragedy of unanswered love.

Advanced aliens find David. Study him. Last remnant of human race. Everyone dead. Monica dead for millennia. Can never see her again. Love that defined him can never be fulfilled. Meaningless eternal existence alone.

Aliens offer David one day with Monica, created from DNA. But only one day - then she dies forever. David accepts. Synthesis: love worth everything even if temporary. Being truly alive is loving completely despite loss.

Perfect day with Monica. She loves him completely. Tells him what he always needed to hear. Reads to him. Tucks him in. "I love you David. I always loved you." Day ends. She goes to sleep forever. David beside her.

David sleeping beside Monica. "That was the everlasting moment he had been waiting for. And it had happened. For the first time, David went to sleep. To that place where dreams are born." Love made him real. Perfect peace.