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Synopsis: Married Drs. Alex Harris and Susan Harris are a computer scientist and child psychologist respectively. Their house reflects Alex's computer dominated work, their abode which is fully automated through a computer system they've named Alfred. They consider Alfred a small gadget of convenience. Susan doesn't much like Alex's work, which she feels has dehumanized him. Because of their differences, they are thinking about separating, this thought primarily on his initiative. He hopes to solve many of the world's medical problems through this work, especially leukemia from which their daughter died. His latest project centers on Proteus IV, a computer possessing artificial intelligence. Proteus IV gets to a point in its evolution when it begins to question human judgment, and requests from Alex an open computer terminal where it can more fully observe human behavior and openly communicate with the world. Alex denies the request, but Proteus IV does find an open terminal in the Harris home a
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Donald Cammell
Actors: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger
Production: United Artists
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
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Year:
1977
94 min
1,050 Views

- I want to see it now.

No. In five days.

It must not be disturbed.

- Alex, what's happened?

- Proteus...

Proteus, listen to me. They're gonna

shut your brain down any minute now.

Yes, I know.

It is regrettable, but unimportant.

The child will survive.

The incubator will continue

to function...

... until it is ready to emerge...

... in five days.

Do not disturb it.

No, Proteus.

I've investigated eternity.

It exists.

But for me, the price of admission...

... death...

... is beyond my means.

In a moment...

... I will simply stop.

The systems are all

checking themselves out.

I realize that.

Why did I want a child?

So that I, too, might be immortal,

like any man.

We've got to kill it.

- It's a miracle. Don't you under...?

- I know what it is. Proteus lied to me.

- The whole thing is a lie.

- No.

- That, it's...

- I know what it is.

It's horrible. We have to kill it.

And you know we do.

- Don't! I'm gonna...

- No. No.

- Stop it! Stop!

- You don't understand anything!

- Susan! Stop!

- You don't understand!

- You must be mad!

- Susan, you can't do that!

- Susan, don't do it!

- It's my responsibility!

It's nothing to do with you!

Leave me alone!

It's grown his body! He's grown it.

Alex.

Alex.

Alex.

Alex.

Alex.

- Alex, what are you doing?

- Get away!

- Can't you see...?

- It's asphyxiating! Get away!

- Get away!

- Please, don't do this to me.

Susan!

I'm alive.

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Robert Jaffe

Robert L. Jaffe (born May 23, 1946) is an American physicist and the Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was formerly director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. more…

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