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Now we\\u2019ve got that out of the way, it\\u2019s time to get serious about Papa Spielberg\\u2019s first offering of the new millennium: 2001\\u2019s moody, existentially shattering A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Beginning as a short story in the pages of Harper\\u2019s Bazaar in the early-\\u201870s, the film started out as a Kubrick project before gradually, over the years, forging a bridge between the two master filmmakers and ultimately coming to fruition as a ghostly collaboration.\\xa0

We talk about the extent to which the film represents the nexus of these two very (ostensibly) different sensibilities, the truly remarkable work done by Hayley Joel Osment in doing the impossible and making human this uncanny life form, and the wild (mis)interpretations that have led to people taking very different things from the conclusion. It\\u2019s heavy stuff, so we\\u2019ve brought out the big guns to help us wade through it. That\\u2019s right, for this episode we\\u2019re joined by the one and only Good Doctor himself, Mr. Mark Kermode, a man who famously reassessed the film (as well as his own reaction to it) in the years since, even going so far as to confessing to the director himself. We\\u2019re over the moon that he could join us and we hope you find this discussion (which begins at around the 40 minute mark) as rewarding as we did, instead of looking at us blankly and asking: \\u2018What were those words for, Mommy?\\u2019

You can listen to Mark Kermode every Friday on Kermode and Mayo\\u2019s Take, available on all good pod catchers of choice. If you\\u2019re already a member of the vanguard, we salute you.

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Ramblin is created and produced by Andrew Gaudion and Joshua Glenn. A special thanks as always to Emily Tatham for the artwork, and Robert J. Hunter-Clayton & Greg Sheffield for the theme music, and to all our guests over the decade that was the 1990s.