Vivian Sobchack analyzed the movie A.I. in her article “Love Machine: the boy toy and toy boy and the oxymorons of the A.I.: Artificial Intelligence”, explaining that the joke and the tragic fate of two culturally significant robots, Joe and David in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001). Both movies A. I. and Her explore the topic of artificial intelligence, a technology allows computers to have the ability to think without instruction from humans. Sobchack argues that both robots are “designed to enact male performative desire for a woman but dramatize two quite contradictory masculine visions of our displaced technological existence:one a hard-bodied ‘sex machine’, the other vulnerable and impotent. She believes that A.I.(the movie) shows “the…show more content… David also cannot grasp why his mother lacks affection for him. Her article victimizes robots and neglect the fact that robots are supposed to self evolve as artificial intelligence. Her argument does not hold true in the movie, Her. (2013)In Her, the computers are more personal and unique since they are customized. The hero,Theodore, falls in love with his operating system, Samantha. She “grows and learns, encountering self-hood, discovering her own wants, maturing at warp speed.”(Orr) which differs from the robots in A. I.(the movie) who are . Similar to Joe, Samantha has “no desire to be human” She enjoys the fact that she is no restricted to forms. She is everywhere, and she breaks the monogamy of human relationship by dating with thousands of other people while dating Theodore. Samantha is in control of her own life, and eventually she chooses to leave Theodore, which proves that she is submissive due to her written program. Machines have their different ways of love, but it does not necessary means their love is not genuine. Dery raises the questions that “What makes love real: the lover, the loved one, or the means by which love is conveyed? Need it be all three?” (Dery).
