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A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Don't let the rating I gave this movie dissuade you. I actually think people who like 'thinking' science fiction should check this out. Some have suggested that this 1962 feature should be remade. If someone did do a remake, they'd have to just accept the fact that many casual viewers would claim that this movie's remake was ripping off Blade Runner, The Questor Tapes, Ghost in the Shell, and the 2000s Battlestar Galactica. However, it looks very much like all of those shows 'borrowed' from this 1962 motion picture. Clearly the concepts in this film were really coming to a head in the 1960s. "Do androids dream of electric sheep" was talking about a lot of this stuff in 1968 (and who knows how long the book took to write). Captain Future of the 1940s and 1950s touched on some of this too. Every time I dig a bit deeper, I find out that someone's tackled many of these concepts. Heck, even Fred Saberhagen's Berserker novels tread similar territory. I've written this in such a way that I don't give too much away. I think the best thing is to see the film for yourself. Be prepared though, since certain aspects of it are certainly dated. The preliminary robot designs during the film's intro are primitive looking (and almost comical). And the pacing is somewhat difficult at times. Stick with it though. The thesis comes out in the end and it's pretty entertaining to watch it unfold. This is a movie that could actually be done as a stage play. To that effect, I really enjoyed the sets and the lighting. With such a deep message, I felt that even more dramatic lighting and higher contrast ratios would have added even more gravity to certain scenes. So yes -- check this out. It must have come as quite a shock to audiences of the time. For audiences today, it covers topics that we're quite used to so the impact won't be as great. Still pretty neat though.

*Spoiler/plot- The Creation of the Humanoids (1962). Following a catastrophic atomic war, mankind creates a race of robots work helpers. Then advanced cyborgs with more human-like looks & abilities develop into blue-skinned androids to help in the reconstruction of human civilization. These electronic beings are disparagingly referred to by some prejudiced fearful humans as 'Clickers'. The cyborgs grow more and more intelligent until they wish to become nearly human-like. To stop this development and preserve human rule in society, a vigilante group is formed called 'Order of Flesh and Blood'. Are the robots really the enemy of mankind or his last hope for survival on the Earth. *Special Stars- Don Megowan, Erica Elliott, Frances McCann, Don Dolittle, Dudley Manlove, David Cross.*Theme- Is mankind only a flesh & blood being or can they become a differing being of cyborgs. *Trivia/location/goofs- Has a very futuristic haunting main music theme and electronic scene music all through the film. Color, Reputedly Andy Warhol's favorite film. Dudley Manlove (a cyborg) was also in 'Plan 9 from Outer space".*Emotion- This is a very memorable film for it's design, look, music, and deep theological plot possibilities. This film explores so many themes: racism, progress, history, emotion, love, and death. The film's ending is a wonderful thought provoking twist that engages the viewer. This film is an overlooked 60's story gem.

You got your humans and robotic humanoids. There is a faction of humans that hates the humanoids. They derisively refer to them as clickers. All you have to do is think of the clickers as black folk and those against them as racists. Once you get that mind set, this movie ROCKS! Think about the rule that one drop of Negro blood makes you black. Suddenly the game becomes who's black and who isn't. Add all that together and this futuristic cerebral SciFi flick becomes absolutely terrific and unique. Be sure to watch the very last few seconds. Beware though, your head may explode. ;-O) Unfortunately this is a cheapo flick but don't let that put you off watching it. It's a very worthwhile film.

It has high school level acting, dialog written by the teacher leading the school's acting club, and with sets barely rising to a college level production. But it has ideas, philosophy and even theology still unexplored in film making today. Not to say there is much explanation. This is not The Fountainhead where every idea is cause for a monologue.On top of that it expresses ideas like Asimov's Laws of Robotics withOUT a short lecture on their creation by Asimov -- not even giving his name. No other Hollywood writer has been able to do that. And it violates one of the laws in adherence to another without making the violation the substance of the story -- something even Asimov never achieved.The plot development is actually quite good without any contrived twists. Events early in the movie are part of the later plot. By the nature of the theme of the movie you know what is going to happen towards the end. It does but not in a way you would guess and again without a contrived twist hoping to make it surprising but in fact is only a twist introduced so as to advertise it has a surprise ending.When transfer of the soul comes up the answer is almost, "you can't have everything." No screenwriter today would dare not dwell upon the importance of the soul. Nor would any screenwriter today dare suggest all we are is a piece of brain tissue. These and many more ideas came fast with no lecturing and no moralizing. They are also discussed with the lack of emotion one expects from a high school play. These actors can't be all this bad. One gets the feeling there should have been at least one rehearsal.The ideas are worthy of Phil Dick but played without the angst. It has been a long time since I was intimately familiar with the Science Fiction literature of the 1950s and older but I do not recall any of the ideas even being mentioned earlier than this movie.If you are a science fiction fan and do not demand special effects and things that go boom in your movies this is for you. This movie could not be made today. Like The Cold Equations and Avatar today there would have to be an evil corporation behind it and schmaltz agonizing about the soul. And rest assured the premise would be climate change not nuclear war.See it soon.