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Narrator: Those were the years after the ice caps had melted... because of the greenhouse gases, and the oceans had risen drown so many cities... along all the shorelines of the world. Amsterdam, Venice, New York - Forever lost. Millions of people were displaced. Climates became chaotic. Hundreds of Millions of people starved in poorer countries. Elsewhere a high degree of prosperity survived... when most governments in the developed world... introduced legal sanctions to strictly license pregnancies, which was why robots, who were never hungry and did not consume resources beyond those of their first manufacture, were so essential an economic link... in the chain mail of society
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and the oceans had drowned cities
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along all the shorelines of the world
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Amsterdam Venice New York
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forever lost
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Millions of people were displaced
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Climate became chaotic
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Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries
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A high degree of prosperity survived when the developed world
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introduced sanctions to license pregnancies
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which was why robots who did not consume resources
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beyond those of their first manufacture
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were so essential an economic link
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in the chain mail of society
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Movie Summary
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
