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Dr Strangelove
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Originally posted by korn469
Berzerker
you cannot truly love a person who doesn't love you back, david's mom didn't love him, and no matter how hard he tried, it was only an infatuation, and not true love he felt for her, his love was artificial just like him, she rejected him, and he wasn't pure, he was evil, he didn't grow, he was obsolete, he couldn't grow, he couldn't get over his shitty childhood
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Yeah, you can love someone who doesn't love you back. I see it in kids quite often. Sometimes moms have the audacity to smack their kids around right in front of me and I see the kids sit there, take it and continue loving their tormentor. Childish love is largely a result of dependency. A child whose parents do not love him may continue to love them simply because his life depends upon them. In a way David simulates this condition. Furthermore I think that his "mom" did grow to love him, but succumbed to pressure from "Dad" and his "brother". Remember that David was capable of learning (they said he had heuristic capabilities). His growth was most obvious in the scenes at home. He made mistakes, like accidently almost drowning his brother, and he was gullible, like when his brother tricked him into snipping some of mom's hair. Kids do this too, and often suffer consequences way out of proportion to their offenses.
Sure his love began as artificial. A major point of the movie was David's quest for "real" love. On the way towards real love David had to learn to become an active principle, i.e., by making the journey, by learning to cooperate (with gigolo Joe) and by taking a risk to help another (gigolo Joe escaping the police). He had to cope with disillusionment and to consciously seperate himself from the very reason for his creation. Finally in the end the real blue fairy was not the statue at Coney Island, but the "real love" that the robots arranged for hi in the final sequence. Only then was he complete.
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16-12-2002 19:47
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