YMMV / Bicentennial Man

• Fridge Brilliance: The film seems to say that eventually all NorthAm robots would achieve sapience; the "accident" with Andrew only accelerated it. Heck, robot "glitches" result in them getting a Mind Wipe, which means their journey is reset before it can begin. Galatea achieving it is due to her being in a home that definitely wouldn't reset her brain.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Andrew is seen getting a mechanical operation in his chest area (with his human covering on). Ten years later, Robin Williams would undergo open heart surgery.
  • The end of the movie where Andrew willingly gives up his life to be happy (fulfilling his dreams of being recognized as human, that is) becomes a whole lot darker when you take into account Robin Williams' own suicide in 2014 (the day he died, August 11, was also Embeth Davidtz's birthday). And near the end of the film, seeing Robin Williams in aging prosthetics makeup is a bit odd and unnerving now since he tragically only lived to age 63.
  • A lot of the lyrics in Céline Dion's Then You Look at Me has also become harsher in hindsight—not only for Robin Williams' suicide, but also for the film's composer James Horner's death from a plane crash in June 2015.
    Laugh and cry...
    Live and die
    Life is a dream we're dreaming
    Day by day
    I find my way
    Look for the song and the meaning
    
    Then you look at me
    And I always see
    What I have been searching for
    I'm lost as can be
    Then you look at me
    And I am not lost anymore
• Tear Jerker: The Bittersweet Ending. Andrew, having turned his body practically human in every way and thus capable of aging, passes away moments before the World Congress officially announces that he's been declared a human being. Portia asks her nurse to have her life support unplugged so they can be Together in Death. The nurse is revealed to be Galatea, who has attained sentience, and in comparison to her earlier personality is barely holding herself together as she allows her to die peacefully.
  See you soon.
• Unintentional Period Piece: During his long search for other robots, Andrew is in New York City with the original World Trade Center behind him, apparently taller and with a connecting bridge between the towers.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: While some debate the overall quality of the film, the robot suit which Robin wears for the first half of the film looks very impressive. Not one part has a seam or opening, and is instead rife with more mechanical details to further sell that this is indeed an android and not just a costume. According to Adam Savage in this video, Robin still had full and easy range of motion within the suit!

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