Tempbot

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This is a short film about life for a robot in the human world. It is very analagous to someone with AS trying to live and work with NTs. I think most of the people here will relate very strongly with it. It's fifteen minutes long, and definitely worth your time to watch!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkof-BxoLM0[/youtube]

So what happen? I figured he was fired for sexual harassment but at the end the whole office went robotic.

Here's my basic analysis

Tempbot can't relate ot the personal world, and so his attempts to fit in fail. They condemn him when he can't, but ironically they create more and more of an impersonal world of 'people' like tempbot in the end anyway. Tempbot represents the alienated person isolated from real relationship (he can't even talk). So what do they do? They end up creating an even more alienated world of others like him in the end. The other bots have replaced the workers, or metaphorically, the workers have become impersonal bots. Tempbot has given up the desire for love, having torn the picture of him and the woman in half. But he is happy because he now fits in.

Basically I think the film is about alienation and being a misfit, and how society/work just creates more people like that.

WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME CRY!! !!

I didn't ask for this - I shouldn't have watched that.... that ruined me.

I don't feel so good.
Going now.

Any body got a gun?

MAN, that is SO mch like I am! It is JUST like I USED to be!

I used to get in early, leave late, work HARD!
I STILL close the drapes, keep the room darker.
I STILL often end up being an outsider, trying to gleen certain info that can HOPEFULLY be used later.
I STILL try to make sense of what is going on.
I STILL don't like chatterboxes.
I STILL have the same posture.

Steve