They're Freaking Me Out
I've been watching a lot movies with my kid lately. Well, I've been watching the same two movies over and over and over again, and those movies are kind of freaking me out a bit. We've been watching Cars and Robots. Despite being 5 or 6 years old, they're both still really fun movies. I really do like both of them. However, they both really bother me at the same time. There are some really bizarre things in these movies. Now, I'm aware that they're "kids' movies" and all that, but just for fun, I want to ask some questions about them that bother me.
Cars
Are they born as the specific type of vehicle they are? Can they change from a race car to a limo if they wanted to? How do they reproduce? All good questions. Here's the thing that bothers me most: how do they arrange things in their world? There are things that clearly require hands that they do. For example, putting up posters. There are plenty of examples with posters on the wall; how do they do that? How do they mount cameras to the news cars? A lot of the things I could explain away. Like, how do they build the buildings? Well, there must be specialized machines that do it. There must be special building, stamping, whatevering machines for everything. But there are things they do in the movie (that aren't SHOWN how they did it, but just implied that they did it) that seem to require fine motor skills that I don't think a car has. Plus, at one point there's a minivan that has a mattress on top of it. What does a car need with a mattress?
Robots
This movie really, really freaks me out. Why are their boy and girl robots? They show you that in order to reproduce they just build a child from parts in a box they order. How is their world just totally metal? Really, everything is metal. Why do they eat? What purpose could eating serve for the robots? I've begun to assume that the robots were actually made by man. They were made in man's image (very Genesis 1:27). So man initially programmed the robots to do the same things man did. Right? Why wouldn't man do that? Make the robots emulate the same things we do to make them easier to accept into society. Plus, we'd want robots to take over all those menial tasks to make our lives easier. (Also, by man I mean mankind. Or, whatever the non-sexist way to say "human kind" or "people" is.) So the robots are barbers, or cooks, and male and female and such. Then, there was a great robot uprising in 2027. The war lasted for 15 years, but on March 19th, 2042 at 3:23 AM the last human was stamped out of existence. The robots, no longer filled with blood lust, started to evolve. Still, despite the eradication of man, they found themselves (call it the ghost in the machine) rebuilding cities. Then they rebuilt the world all together. They knew about chickens, and that everything tastes like chicken (as Robin William's character refers to), but clearly they could not taste. Still, they build chickens and farms and next thing you know, they were just like the humans that they had battled so hard to destroy. Then, they build Hitler-bot who tried to eradicate all the human remnant thoughts, but they had a giant war, and well, in the end, the movie starts in the year 2087 after peace among robots had been establish. See what that movie does to me? It just confuses me in so many ways.
Cars
Are they born as the specific type of vehicle they are? Can they change from a race car to a limo if they wanted to? How do they reproduce? All good questions. Here's the thing that bothers me most: how do they arrange things in their world? There are things that clearly require hands that they do. For example, putting up posters. There are plenty of examples with posters on the wall; how do they do that? How do they mount cameras to the news cars? A lot of the things I could explain away. Like, how do they build the buildings? Well, there must be specialized machines that do it. There must be special building, stamping, whatevering machines for everything. But there are things they do in the movie (that aren't SHOWN how they did it, but just implied that they did it) that seem to require fine motor skills that I don't think a car has. Plus, at one point there's a minivan that has a mattress on top of it. What does a car need with a mattress?
Robots
This movie really, really freaks me out. Why are their boy and girl robots? They show you that in order to reproduce they just build a child from parts in a box they order. How is their world just totally metal? Really, everything is metal. Why do they eat? What purpose could eating serve for the robots? I've begun to assume that the robots were actually made by man. They were made in man's image (very Genesis 1:27). So man initially programmed the robots to do the same things man did. Right? Why wouldn't man do that? Make the robots emulate the same things we do to make them easier to accept into society. Plus, we'd want robots to take over all those menial tasks to make our lives easier. (Also, by man I mean mankind. Or, whatever the non-sexist way to say "human kind" or "people" is.) So the robots are barbers, or cooks, and male and female and such. Then, there was a great robot uprising in 2027. The war lasted for 15 years, but on March 19th, 2042 at 3:23 AM the last human was stamped out of existence. The robots, no longer filled with blood lust, started to evolve. Still, despite the eradication of man, they found themselves (call it the ghost in the machine) rebuilding cities. Then they rebuilt the world all together. They knew about chickens, and that everything tastes like chicken (as Robin William's character refers to), but clearly they could not taste. Still, they build chickens and farms and next thing you know, they were just like the humans that they had battled so hard to destroy. Then, they build Hitler-bot who tried to eradicate all the human remnant thoughts, but they had a giant war, and well, in the end, the movie starts in the year 2087 after peace among robots had been establish. See what that movie does to me? It just confuses me in so many ways.