I Robot Analysis

The action thriller, I Robot involves typical goodies and baddies although there is an unusual twist. The robots who have been trained to do the humans 'dirty work' such as being bin men, suddenly turn bad because of one man, it begins to be a fight between the the two.

The music in the trailer begins before the action has even started, the non-diagetic sound track is a dramatic and sudden. The first few words said is by Will Smith, the main character in the film introducing himself. Following onto a close up of him pulling the ignition on his motorbike racing past everyone on the roads, even just this shot suggests power and that this character has control. A robot appears at his door when it opens, he pushes it away, dismissing this new invention and its 'clever programming'. Soon on the equalibrium of the story is disrupted by these 'imertations of free will', determinded to take over the humans and robots to rule. However not all the robots are bad.

Will Smith does not seek the action, although when it comes he does everything to try to dimolish it, especially when his family is involved.