Beware of AI! (A sentiment that becomes more relevant each day?)
Wherein a scientist creates a Supercomputer to solve the problems of man, like cancer, but then the computer starts to question the morality of some of the other things it is also being asked to plan as well, like mining the bottom of the ocean.
The scientist is married and lives in an advanced computerised house, with voice command doors and lights, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, shelves that move up or down to a convenient height and where martinis can be made and served by an automated wheel chair with one mechanical arm. (So we are about half way there now)
He's been working so hard on his project that his psychologist wife is upset with him, so he moves out.
When the supercomputer begins to question and then rebel, it manages to take over the computer in his house and becomes fascinated by his attractive wife (Julie Christie from Dr Zhivago) It ogles, I mean observes, her using the surveillance cameras (and of course we get to ogle her too, as she takes a shower etc.)
Then the computer decides to examine her more closely, so the doors are locked, the window shutters come down and the one armed wheel chair overpowers her and takes her down to the basement lab for a closer look...
Then the computer decides it would like to experience what it's like to be a human, and makes a plan to impregnate her...
By then the husband a friend have become suspicious and attempt to intervene and various action and moralising ensues
The science is completely bonkers of course, but the special effects are quite imaginative and effective, given the limitations they had back then.
There is also element of voyeurism and rape, but it is more suggested than actual, and I think falls within acceptable bounds of telling the story, rather than being overly gratuitous.
And yes there is indeed a robot penis, telescoping and covered with ridges and bumps, however we are spared any graphic details of its use.
The film was directed by Donald Cammell, who I also recently read about in Keith Richards autobiography. He also directed the infamous movie "Performance" which featured Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg. Keith characterised him as being a sadistic and manipulative personality.
Wherein a scientist creates a Supercomputer to solve the problems of man, like cancer, but then the computer starts to question the morality of some of the other things it is also being asked to plan as well, like mining the bottom of the ocean.
The scientist is married and lives in an advanced computerised house, with voice command doors and lights, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, shelves that move up or down to a convenient height and where martinis can be made and served by an automated wheel chair with one mechanical arm. (So we are about half way there now)
He's been working so hard on his project that his psychologist wife is upset with him, so he moves out.
When the supercomputer begins to question and then rebel, it manages to take over the computer in his house and becomes fascinated by his attractive wife (Julie Christie from Dr Zhivago) It ogles, I mean observes, her using the surveillance cameras (and of course we get to ogle her too, as she takes a shower etc.)
Then the computer decides to examine her more closely, so the doors are locked, the window shutters come down and the one armed wheel chair overpowers her and takes her down to the basement lab for a closer look...
Then the computer decides it would like to experience what it's like to be a human, and makes a plan to impregnate her...
By then the husband a friend have become suspicious and attempt to intervene and various action and moralising ensues
The science is completely bonkers of course, but the special effects are quite imaginative and effective, given the limitations they had back then.
There is also element of voyeurism and rape, but it is more suggested than actual, and I think falls within acceptable bounds of telling the story, rather than being overly gratuitous.
And yes there is indeed a robot penis, telescoping and covered with ridges and bumps, however we are spared any graphic details of its use.
The film was directed by Donald Cammell, who I also recently read about in Keith Richards autobiography. He also directed the infamous movie "Performance" which featured Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg. Keith characterised him as being a sadistic and manipulative personality.