Bicentennial Man
Android seeking humanity
Bicentennial Man is a 1999 science fiction film starring Robin Williams as an android who, over two centuries, gradually becomes human through acquiring emotions, creativity, and mortality.
Based on Isaac Asimov's novella of the same name, the title refers to the robot's two-hundred-year journey toward humanity.
The phrase evokes questions about what qualities define personhood.
- androidMachine resembling a person
- robotProgrammable automated machine
- science fictionSpeculative fiction with technological themes
- soulInnermost animating essence
- inner lifeOne's private mental world
Isaac Asimov · Robin Williams · freedom · free will · artificial intelligence · sentient · mortality · emotions · positronic · clockwork · spare parts · servitude · consciousness · transformation · longing · identity · mechanical · upgrade
Bicentennial ManThe Terminator
Futuristic mechanical assassin
The Matrix · RoboCop · Blade Runner · Frankenstein · Ex Machina
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