I saw this film on it’s initial trip around the country with Grek Pak showing it, and quite enjoyed the film. Seeing it again, I still liked it a great deal, though maybe not as much, as the performances could be a little better Still it is a good idea to do 4 shorts and hold them together with a science fiction feel and stories of the heart. All done on DV and transfered to film, it is a decent low budget film.

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My Robot Baby stars Tamlyn Tomita as Marcia a married waman who has a busy and hectic life, and wants to adopt a baby. She and her husband Doug (Vin Knight) are working from home for a month, and they are given a robot baby that they must take care of to prove that they will treat an adopted child well. Well Doug has to go to Tokyo for work, leaving Marcia with the robot baby, which she doesn’t want to deal with, and it seems to go crazy and wreck the place, and hides in a closet, much like Marcia did as a child from her mom, who told her the worst thing in life is to have children, and then when she breaks down the robot baby accepts her.

The Robot Fixer is my favorite of the bunch and not really about science fiction. A mother, Bernice (Wai CHing Ho) is distraught that he estranged son Wilson (Louis Ozawa Changchien). Bernice and her daughter Grace (Cindy Cheung) are staying at Wilson’s place, and Bernice finds Wilson’s collection of an science fiction set of toys, but most are broken, and Bernice sets out to fix the toys and complete the collection, but she can’t find the wing of her sons favorite character, but at a store finds the female version that has wings, and ends up steeling it for her son, but all her attention doesn’t help her son who dies. And she sends the toys, all of them to the store owner.

Machine Love starts Greg Pak as Archie a robot who is made to work and interact with humans as well as program for the company, but starts behaving erratically over another robot named Lydia (Julienne Hanzelka Kim) in a building across the street who gets molested by the people at her company, and eventually the two get together and make love.

Clay is another great one, John (Sab Shimono) is a famous sculptor who is dyeing, and won’t be able to finish his final work. His girlfriend Helen (Eisa Davis) has died and been uploaded to a computer, and he has virtual experiences with her as his young self (played by Tim Kang). He is set to be uploaded, but doesn’t want to. His loves his girlfriend, but she isn’t the same, and John is his same selfish self and doesn’t feel that he deserves her because he is so selfish, and he runs away and dies on his own, without being uploaded because he doesn’t want to change and live forever as someone who is not him.

The Robot Fixer and Clay are my favorites, and really I like The Robot Fixer the best, because of the heart of the mother who is doing the only thing she can to try and save her son, even though it is entirely futile.