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nprfreshair:

What we tried to achieve was the notion of what’s going to happen to all of us in the near future — every one of us is going to go through aging and all sorts of processes, many people suffering from dementia. And if you put a machine in there to help, the notion of making it about love and buddyness and warmth is kind of scary in a way, because that’s what you should be doing with other human beings. So having the robot stay exactly as it always is and having Frank use it for nefarious purposes, I thought was wonderful.”

— Frank Langella on his character’s relationship with a robot in the film ‘Robot & Frank’