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...choice but out of necessity; cars were still a luxury. People tilled the fields because their farmer parents needed cheap help. People ate what they grew because it was there. Most labor was manual then, and most nutrients were natural. Preserved food was what Aunt Maud sealed in a jar. Tobacco and alcohol were available, but most of today's centenarians didn't indulge to excess...
Sonny, in the tradition of Jar Jar Binks and Gollum, was created by painting computer graphics over an actor (here, Alan Tudyk). It's a suave simulacrum that makes Sonny the film's most complex and human character--granted, by default--and sets him apart from the killer "can openers" in pursuit of Spooner. There's a nifty car chase, with the cop (in an Audi, its logo prominently displayed) set upon by a vicious android posse. Even if the scene is not up there with the 14-min. freeway free-for-all in the second Matrix movie...
Though PDVSA supplies almost half the government's revenues, it once ran itself like a private corporation--acquiring subsidiaries like U.S.-based CITGO--and gained a global reputation as a model oil firm. But at home it was viewed as a den of arrogant, pampered technocrats--and a cookie jar for Venezuela's elite, whose corruption has left two-thirds of the population in poverty. Among the poor was Rodriguez's farming family. It made him all the more receptive to economists like Bernard Mommer, a German-born Marxist who taught Rodriguez at Caracas' Central University. As a Congressman, Rodriguez...
...anything modern. As the U.S. Robots boss (Bruce Greenwood) says, "You would have banned the Internet simply to keep the libraries open." Spooner focuses his skepticism on a prototype droid named Sonny, the only creature in the room with the inventor when he died. Sonny, in the tradition of Jar Jar Binks and Gollum, was created by painting computer graphics over an actor (here, Alan Tudyk). It's a suave simulacrum that makes Sonny the film's most complex and human character - granted, by default - and sets him apart from the killer "can openers" in pursuit of Spooner. There...
...Cost of a jar of jelly beans bearing Reagan's signature on eBay...