SHORT CIRCUIT
May 10, 2018
1 minute
Directed by John Badham 1986
Words by Thomas Hobbs
Illustration by Filippo Fontana
Type by Sophie Mo
In the surface, 1986’s feels like a lackadaisical attempt to make the robot equivalent of Look a little deeper and it boldly shows viewers how artificial intelligence can be a force for good, subverting Hollywood’s lazy obsession with turning robots into sex slaves and soulless killing machines. opens at NOVA Laboratories, a shady research firm that boasts of creating five new military robots capable of blowing Moscow to smithereens. However, by good fortune, robot No. 5 is struck by lightning and malfunctions, which results in its escape from the laboratory and the start of its quest for knowledge.
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