History Film / Automata

* ShoutOut: Both the general premise of the film and the rainy, neon city in the film seems to have a clear Film/BladeRunner inspiration.

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Automata is a 2014 science fiction film that follows humanity after increasing solar activity leaves only 21 million people alive by 2044. With radiation still rising developments in quantum computers have led to the creation of robots called Automaton Pilgrims to work building massive walls around the few surviving cities and mechanical "clouds" to shield against radiation. Jacq Vaucan is an insurance investigator working for ROC, the sole company that constructs and operates the pilgrims. Vaucan leads a simple life with his wife Rachel, but fears raising his soon-to-be-born daughter in [[CrapsackWorld the increasingly desolate city]] they live in. Things take a turn for the strange when Jacq is called in to investigate the destruction of a robot that was reportedly altering itself... something robots supposedly ''can't'' do. As Jacq digs ever-deeper he learns disturbing new facts and uncovers evidence of a bizarre conspiracy all around him, all the while facing questions about the nature of sentience itself.

* AfterTheEnd / JustBeforeTheEnd: The world is already [[CrapsackWorld half empty]] the other half will just take a little longer to empty out.

* CigarChomper: Wallace, the cop who first discovers a self-modifygn robot.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: The Clocksmith]]

* UglyCute: [[spoiler: The bug-robot built by the Clocksmith with the help of Cleo and another robot.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jacq, Rachel, and their child escape with their lives while Cleo and the bug-robot leave to help robotic civilization form, but only after a significant portion of the cast is dead, including Robert and the Clocksmith. On a larger scale, mankind will die out relatively soon but will leave behind their knowledge and creations to the robots, who will carry on civilization.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Robert Bold.

Automata is 2014 science fiction film that follows humanity after increasing solar activity leaves only 21 million people alive by 2044. With radiation still rising developments in quantum computers have led to the creation of robots called Automaton Pilgrims to work building massive walls around the few surviving cities and mechanical "clouds" to shield against radiation. Jacq Vaucan is an insurance investigator working for ROC, the sole company that constructs and operates the pilgrims. Vaucan leads a simple life with his wife Rachel, but fears raising his soon-to-be-born daughter in [[CrapsackWorld the increasingly desolate city]] they live in. Things take a turn for the strange when Jacq is called in to investigate the destruction of a robot that was reportedly altering itself... something robots supposedly ''can't'' do. As Jacq digs ever-deeper he learns disturbing new facts and uncovers evidence of a bizarre conspiracy all around him, all the while facing questions about the nature of sentience itself.

* BlackBox: The biokernal containing the robots fundamental AI and the two protocols is believed to be completely unknowable and uncrackable, except possibly by the person who built them. [[spoiler: Turns out that the biokernal was developed by an AI ''without'' the protocols that was becoming more and more intelligent - a selfcontained singularity. ''Nobody'' knows how the biokernal actually works.]]

* ThreeLawsCompliant: Two protocols are embedded in the “biokernal” of each automata. The first is not to harm any form of life[[note]]this usually extends to an unspoken "or through inaction allow a form of life to come to harm."[[/note]], the second is not to modify another robot or one’s self and the second disappearing triggers the beginning of the movie.

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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Two protocols are embedded in the “biokernal” of each automata. The first is not to harm any form of life, the second is not to modify another robot or one’s self and the second disappearing triggers the beginning of the movie.

* SonOfAnApe: Jacq mentions to a robot that he's with that it is just that, a machine. It retorts by saying that saying its just a machine would be like saying Jacq's just an ape.

* DrivenToSuicide: Jacq gets motivated to investigate further after he witnesses a robot

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: The Clocksmith is actually a robot who's managed to move beyond his protocols.]]

Automata is 2014 science fiction film that follows humanity after increasing solar activity leaves only 21 million people alive by 2044. With radiation still rising developments in quantum computers have led to the creation of robots called Automaton Pilgrims to work building massive walls around the few surviving cities and “mechanical” clouds to shield against radiation. The problem it seems is that humanity is still doomed and the robots are starting to act a bit weird.

* BlackBox: The biokernal containing the robots fundamental AI and the two protocols is considering completely unknowable and uncrackable except for the persons that designed it. [[spoiler: Turns out that the biokernal was developed by an AI ''without'' the protocols that was becoming more and more intelligent - a selfcontained singularity. ''Nobody'' knows how the biokernal actually works.]]
* BrokenFaceplate: Played with as robots have mask like faces over their true robotic “skulls” often they are shot in the faceplate, also simply taking off their anthropomorphic mask in a sense makes them more human.

* PurelyAestheticEra: Due to ever increasing solar storm activity civilization is regressing mostly to the point of gangsters from the roaring 20s.

* ForbiddenZone: Outside the city is a slum whose residence are shot on sight for attempting to enter outside it gets even worse with radiation and unchecked desertification.

* MegaCorp: ROC who employees the protagonist Jacq Vaucan and quite a few HiredGuns.

* RobotNames: While several robots appear in the film most possess a simple alphanumeric designation except for Cleo who happens to look like Music/{{Bjork}}'s fembot from the music video ''All is Full of Love''.
* TheSingularity: Humanity’s time is at its end [[BittersweetEnding the robots that human kind created will be all that’s left]].

* ThreeLawsCompliant: Two protocols are embedded in the “biokernal” of each automata the first is not to harm any form of life, the second is not to modify another robot or one’s self and the second disappearing triggers the beginning of the movie.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: They are mechanical clouds for one thing.

* SonOfAnApe: * Jacq mentions to a robot that he's with that it is just that, a machine. It retorts by saying that saying its just a machine would be like saying Jacq's just an ape.

* RobotNames: While several robots appear in the film most possess a simple alphanumeric designation except for Cleo who happens to look like music/{{Bjork}}'s fembot from the music video ''All is Full of Love''.

* RobotNames: While several robots appear in the film most possess a simple alphanumeric designation except for Cleo who happens to look like bjork's fembot from the music video ''All is made of love''.

* Doesn'tLikeGuns: The only logical reason why the bad guys have loads and loads of guns but the [[BatmanGrabsAGun protagonist only grabs one when serious]].

Automata is 2014 science fiction film that follows humanity after increasing solar activity leaves only 21 million people by 2044 with radiation still rising developments in quantum computers have led to the creation of robots called Automaton Pilgrims to work building massive walls around cities and “mechanical” clouds. The problem it seems is that humanity is still doomed and the robots are starting to act a bit weird.