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Alternate title(s): Facing Extinction
Original release / air date: 24 June 2006
Runtime: 95 minutes
Country / region: United States; Canada
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: Sci Fi Channel
Production company / studio: Independent Moving Productions Inc. (IMPinc.)
Artificial character(s): DeeCee, TeeDee
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot

Overview

In a future Earth dominated by machines, human prisoner Jute is transported alongside DeeCee, an android who is beginning to develop emotions. After an attack on their transport, the unlikely pair escape together and uncover a plan by the android leadership to eliminate the remaining human population.

ASFR Content

The film presents androids as the dominant social and political class, with many passing easily within a human-scale society. DeeCee is explicitly an android developing empathy and independent emotional responses, creating tension between machine programming and emerging individuality while he and Jute are forced to rely on one another.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Major

Jute and DeeCee are transported together

Human prisoner Jute is placed in custody alongside DeeCee, establishing the social divide between humans and androids and the machine nature of his reluctant travelling companion.

Character(s): DeeCee
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

DeeCee develops independent emotion

During the escape and journey through the wasteland, DeeCee increasingly displays empathy and emotional responses that go beyond the behaviour expected of the dominant machine society.

Character(s): DeeCee
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Scene 3
Major

Jute and DeeCee uncover the android extermination plan

The pair discover that the leadership of the machine-controlled world is planning to eliminate the remaining human population, forcing DeeCee to choose between his own kind and his developing moral judgement.

Character(s): DeeCee
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