It’s a movie that I have not seen, not yet at least. I read reviews of it and pretty much knew what happened in the end. It has a sad sad ending. People call it a fairytale tragedy. The word tragedy made me afraid of making the attempt to watch it. But then I thought to myself, what would have I done to change it if I were the girl who was in love with this robot with blades as his fingers? In the movie, she left him before she turned old because she wanted him to always have imagined her as the young and beautiful Kim. One of the barriers that stopped them from being in a openly relationship accepted by the town people is that he had no hands. He can’t even hug her. His creator died before he had the chance to give him normal hands.
Okay, so we’re in a setting where robots can be made. Surely she could find evidence of the creation of Edward in the castle. If I were her, I’d try to help Edward out by making real hands for him. When I had this thought I realized that in many stories, the tragedy is a result of lack of information. Either they miscommunicated with one another or through misunderstanding of other peoples statements, they had the wrong idea and made the wrong decision.. or it’s because they lack information in general, being stupid would be the right phrase to sum it up. Why can’t they rethink before making a decision that they might regret and leaving the rest of us (and me) feel sad about another creation of a tragedy?
My advice to Kim: before loving someone, try to learn more about mechanical engineering.