Robot & Frank (2012)
7/10
pleasantly surprised
24 May 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This is the kind of film you watch and realize there's nothing bad about it, the actors, the simple plot, the pace. All great. Its a movie that doesn't need great effects, doesn't need to be too complicated, its a very simple story line but what we see is a story about age, loneliness, technology, friendship, regret, lethargy, and an old man given a new lease of life by the most unexpected source,a robot.

At the beginning the old man is lonely, unsociable, lazy, stubborn and quite moody, he doesn't seem to want to give life a chance. The robot changes that when it enters his life and eventually a friendhip is formed, he realizes that the robot doesn't have any kind of conscience, or legal boundaries, that's when he gets the idea to use the robot to reignite his old life of thievery. With some twists and turns on the way the old man is always one step ahead and in the end the robot sacrifices itself for him. Moving, lighthearted movie.
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