Allyson- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
I don’t hate horror movies, I’ve just never watched one long enough to form an opinion. So, the films that have freaked me out are limited but present with early childhood traumas. If there is any film that had a negative lasting impression on my it was Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg’s film A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
No I wasn’t allowed to watch this as a child and no I didn’t see most of it. What I saw was the traumatic last few moments where the child A.I. meets his talking teddy bear and gets to live out one day with his mother.
Ten year old me woke up in the middle of the night, stumbled into the living room where the fluorescent television lights were casting an eerie glow on my log cabin house, and I heard Haley Joel Osment cry “Mommy”. Good god that is not what I ever needed to wake up to ever. Ten year old Ally did not need to hear it, think about it, see the unsettling image of a teddy bear walking into view. It’s made it so that I can never actually watch this film.
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