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日本の時間、世界の時間。
The time of Japan, the time of the world

Bicentennial Man

2013年06月25日 22時43分40秒 | 日記
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Bicentennial Man is a 1999 American science fiction drama film, starring Robin Williams and Sam Neill. Based on the novel The Positronic Man, co-written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, which is itself based on Asimov's original novella titled The Bicentennial Man, the plot explores issues of humanity, slavery, prejudice, maturity, intellectual freedom, conformity, sex, love, and mortality. It was directed by Chris Columbus and a co-production between Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures. The title comes from the main character existing to the age of two hundred years, and Asimov's novella was published in the year that the U.S. had its bicentennial.

Plot

The NDR series android "Andrew" (Robin Williams) is introduced in April 2005 into the Martin family home to perform housekeeping and maintenance duties. The family's reactions range from acceptance and curiosity to outright rejection and deliberate vandalism by their surly older daughter Grace (Lindze Letherman), which leads to the discovery that Andrew can both identify emotions and reciprocate in kind. When Andrew accidentally breaks a figurine belonging to "Little Miss" Amanda (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), he carves a replacement out of wood. The family is astonished by this creativity and “Sir” Richard Martin (Sam Neill) takes Andrew to his manufacturer, to inquire if all the robots are like him. The company's CEO (Stephen Root) sees this development as a problem and wishes to scrap Andrew. Angered, Martin takes Andrew home and allows him to pursue his own development, encouraging Andrew to educate himself in the humanities.

Years later, following an accident in which Andrew's thumb is accidentally cut off, Martin again takes him to NorthAm Robotics for repairs, ensuring first that Andrew's personality will remain unharmed. Andrew requests that while he is being repaired his face be upgraded to allow him to convey the emotions he feels but cannot fully express. The CEO informs them that upgrade modification will be very expensive―in fact, larger than the sum he earns in an entire year―but the price is well within the Martins' means, comprising a month of Andrew's income from the sale of his carpentry and other woodworks and crafts.

After the wedding of Little Miss (Embeth Davidtz), Andrew realizes there are no more orders for him to run. He eventually asks for his freedom, much to Martin's dismay. He grants the request, but banishes Andrew so he can be "completely" free. As Andrew leaves, Martin comments that he has stopped referring to himself as "one". Andrew builds himself a home at the beach and lives alone. In 2048, Andrew sees Martin one last time on his deathbed. Martin apologizes for not granting him his freedom sooner, as he bids farewell to Andrew, who states that it was an honor serving him.

After help from Little Miss' reluctant son Lloyd Charney (Bradley Whitford), Andrew goes on a quest to locate more NDR series robots to discover if others have also developed sentience. After more than a decade of futility, he finds Galatea (Kiersten Warren), an NDR robot that has been given feminine attributes and personality. These however are simply aspects of her programming and not something which she developed as Andrew did. Galatea is owned by Rupert Burns (Oliver Platt), son of the original NDR robot designer. Rupert works to create a more human look for robots, but is unable to attract funding. Andrew agrees to finance the research and the two join forces to give Andrew a superficial human appearance. In 2068, Andrew comes back to visit Little Miss but instead meets Portia Charney (Davidtz), her granddaughter (Lloyd's daughter) who looks exactly like a younger version of Little Miss. Little Miss is now aged as she explains to Andrew that it's a genetic likeness that skipped a generation. In 2070, Little Miss is hospitalized and Andrew visits her, noticing that she is clutching the wooden horse he carved for her when she was young. She silently passes away, and Andrew feels the pain of not being able to cry and realizes that every human being he cares for will eventually die.

Over time, Andrew and Rupert begin to study medical designs capable of producing mechanical equivalents of human organs, including a central nervous system, which eventually allows Andrew to acquire tactile sensations and taste. Meanwhile, his friendship with Portia evolves into romance. At first, Portia is uncertain about "investing her emotions in a machine" and almost marries someone else, but Andrew confronts her about her emotions and they eventually engage in a romantic and sexual relationship. Upon realizing that his relationship with Portia would never be socially accepted, Andrew petitions the World Congress to recognize him as a human being, which would allow him and Portia to be legally married. The Speaker of the Congress rejects the proposal, explaining that society can tolerate an everlasting machine, but argues that an immortal human would create too much jealousy and resentment.

In 2120, Portia is physically middle-aged due to Andrew's medical breakthroughs but decides that she doesn't want to have her life forever prolonged by them. Andrew realizes that he wouldn't want to live on without her. He has his now elderly friend Rupert to introduce blood into his system which will cause his brain to gradually decay, allowing him to age; Rupert welcomes Andrew to the human condition, admitting that it is unknown when exactly Andrew will die. Around 2150 to 2160, an aging Andrew attends the World Congress a second time to petition to be declared a human being. However, the decision is postponed to a later date, as the World Congress decides to review the matter before making a final determination.

In 2205, Andrew and Portia are now elderly and in intermediate care. The couple watch a broadcast where the President of the World Congress acknowledges Andrew's humanity, declaring him as the oldest human being in recorded history at age 200 and validates his marriage with Portia. Andrew dies while listening to the broadcast, and Portia orders their nurse Galatea (who is now human-looking and sentient) to unplug her from her life support machine. The film ends with Portia about to die hand-in-hand with Andrew, as she whispers to him "See you soon."

Robin Williams was a starring very good movie “Bicentennial Man ".

2013年06月25日 22時04分19秒 | 日記
The writer is convinced world however, that Toyota is the most excellent company.
To be telling the excellence of the company which is called Toyota vividly was very good for the commercial of Lexus which the Toyota is applying to from the other day.

Robin Williams was a starring very good movie “Bicentennial Man ".
The writer remembered this movie immediately.

It is a so excellent commercial.
The music which is flowing through the rear of this commercial what is more is wonderful again.
Today, barely, it knew the music and the name of the singer.
It appeared immediately if searching.
But it should search in the early days in the more
Because it is the best point in the net

the Nikkei 17 page today,it had better know the world in addition to Japan, too…

2013年06月25日 21時13分49秒 | 日記
The actual state of Korea which the mass media in Japan don't report for some reason had been written in the column " The big opportunity, the small opportunity" of the Nikkei 17 page today.
It had better know the world in addition to Japan, too, beforehand.
Because, it is because it is true.

「The big opportunity, the small opportunity」(The translation is Akutagawa)

The big opportunity, the small opportunity

The destination that crisis Korea runs
Bernanke U.S. Federal Reserve Board (FRB) chairman referred to the exit point from the quantitative relaxation of the finance.
In the word, the bond market in Korea fell into a panic.
Saying “the person who tries to buy a bond disappeared suddenly ", it hands down a Korean paper “Chuo Nippo “net edition.
It is the bubbles of water such as the effect of the reducing interest rates of Bank of Korea (the central bank) in May.
An Achilles' tendon of the Korean corporation resembles in the fragility of fund raising basis and there is it but the marine transportation, the shipbuilding and the construction are serious especially.
The corporation which boils in the high interest borrowing in the short period and runs, too, is increasing.
Korea Composite Stock Price Index updates yearly low the every day.
That the foreign money which was flowing with the monetary relaxation in the U.S. in addition to the future concerns of the Korean economy transferred to the outflow is big.
According to the Korean finance manager hospital, the sum of the stock and the bond holding by the foreign investor is 512,000,000,000,000 or more pieces of Wong this year at the time of the end of May.

According to Korean finance manager bureau, the sum of the stock and the bond holding by the foreign investor is 512,000,000,000,000 or more pieces of Wong this year at the time of the end of May.
To be the next year of Riemann shock since 2009
300,000,000,000,000 pieces of Wong net lines of the foreign force increased actually.
The increment is about 25,000,000,000,000 yen in the conversion into yen.
Because the economic scale of Korea is 1/5 of Japan, it is the payment which is over 100,000,000,000,000 yen fully if redrawing in Japan.
Because the foreign force which possesses 30 % of more of the Korean stock transferred to the sale, there are without the least resistance in the market.
Including Samsung electron which the sales hard of the next generation smart phone was pointed out to, the stock price of the representative-firm is doing a price collapse.
The lowering pressure is acting on the SKW price, too.

It was thought putting-on and that is not the case when only Korea which was criticizing the correction of super appreciation of yen by Abenomics for “being a currency war " resembled and would welcome currency poor in Korea indeed.
It is because it accompanies in the foreign money raise boiling and the making shift of the corporation becomes harder.
It is the perfection of " doing bad currency poor ", the triple sell-off with stock, bond, currency.
The part in the deadline of the currency swap (the accommodation) which was linked among Japan arrives in July.
In the good one, will the face not permit it if admitting a situation frankly and requesting extension?
The destination to run is China.
Park Geun-hye president takes about 60 economic-missions to the visit to China on the 27th.
According to the Korea and union news, the number exceeds end visiting the United States time (52).
Let's offer China swap expansion, too.
It is that the Chinese economy which Korea relies on is not huge rock about becoming a feeling slightly.

The evaluation of the international economy world to the over-investment and financial bubble is increasing severity.
My Japan will be when keeping a distance often from these two countries.