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Films

Androids At The Cinema

Alessandro Colarossi looks at how Hollywood draws and blurs the line between human and machine.

“Putting his lips together David whistled a few soft, carefully modulated notes. Head cocked to one side, the alien watched and listened. Then it exhaled softly, trying to duplicate the sounds. Since it possessed a very different respiratory mechanism, it failed in the attempt. That did not matter to David.

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