"im me. i was a child. i grew up. i remember it all. i had little hands, and they grew larger. i grew up. i can hate, and i can kill. i'm a man."
Geregisseerd door Wesley Barry
Many years after a nuclear war, the human survivors have created a new society where much of the work is done by androids, referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". A police official who is concerned that his sister has become involved with an android is sent to investigate a larger rumor that the androids are developing reason and emotion.
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"im me. i was a child. i grew up. i remember it all. i had little hands, and they grew larger. i grew up. i can hate, and i can kill. i'm a man."
There really is something ineffably bizarre about Creation of the Humanoids. It feels like it's been made by someone who has only been told how films work - not someone who has seen it at first hand.That's not to say it's bad, though. The film has certainly been something of a laughing stock over the years, because of its wooden acting, oddball dialogue and antiquated sexual politics. And yeah, some of these aspects are really funny. But this is far from a chore to watch.To call it entertaining seems... wrong, too. But it is really quite compelling in an utterly unique way. The science fiction concepts that form the core plot are genuinely interesting. The influence of Isaac Asimov's robot stories overshadows all of it, but this film opens up some thought provoking musings on the nature of life and artificial intelligence which weren't really revisited again until Blade Runner - and I even wonder if Blade Runner 2049 took at least one cue from this film, as its central plot point concerning reproduction of synthetic lifeforms.The staging is quite bizarre. There are probably only about 7 separate scenes, all of which are set up as tableaux with characters kind of standing there and delivering their lines. But despite a clear lack of budget, these sets still look gorgeous - it's got that 50's imagining of far future look but splashed with vibrant colour. The robots (weirdly pronounced RO-buhts, and not to be confused with mu-TANTS) have this amazing metallic paint covering them and the actors wear these huge glass spherical-looking contact lenses which is a really striking look.With all this going for it, the deep weird hilarity of some of the happenings and the awkwardness of the characters really just seems to enhance the experience. You may write this off (as I almost did) in the opening sequence where the history of robots is intoned over images of people standing there with cardboard boxes over their heads, but stick with it. This is not a piece-of-shit old sci-fi movie like some of its contemporaries (Robot Monster comes to mind) - I'd actually recommend this one.
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Vele jaren na een atoomoorlog onderzoekt een politiefunctionaris geruchten dat androïden rede en emotie ontwikkelen.
De film werd in 1962 geregisseerd door Wesley Barry.
De film werd op 3 juli 1962 in de Verenigde Staten uitgebracht.
De film heeft een speelduur van 75 minuten.
