Niceland (Population 1.000.002)

I go on explorind icelandic movies, this one was shot in 2004 by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (actually it's co-production of Iceland, Denmark, Germany and the UK). The film is rather short but definitely nice and touching. Its plot revolves around love between two mentally retarded young people, as it is said in the synopsis. But I actually didn't mention their backwardness while watching the movie. They are naive, straightforward and a bit strange, but in this film everyone is strange. And the main hero, Jed, sometimes turnes out to be more perceptive, balanced and wise than, say, his father. His motives may be simple-hearted, but he's totally sincere, and that's the source for the power he needs. Power not to become desperate when something goes wrong, to face his fears and to find the answer to the main question - what is the purpose of life. And not to be scared.

Artificial intelligence (again) and a little bit of Star Trek

Another movie about a perfect robot looking like a real man, this one is by Spielberg.
I don't actually want to write a review on this film. I wouldn't say that its message is pioneering, the more films about supercomputers I watch the more I realize they are all alike. One of the special features of such movies is that a perfect computer has a strong resemblance to a human being. And that is the point I can't understand. I wouldn't like to live in a world where I couldn't tell a human from a machine. Even if it has an artificial intelligence, the machine is still just the machine, no matter how it looks like. The similarity to a living thing just makes it more difficult (sometimes even impossible) to make a decision and switch it off if necessary.