A.I. - Abandoned In The Woods

To me, this might be Steven Spielberg's masterpiece; this sequence alone show how powerful the pairing of Spielberg and John Williams can be.

[@mariakezan4271]

I watched this movie when I was very little. Don't remember much about it, but this scene.stayed with me all these years. It shooks me still.

[@tastlite]

Replying to a 1yr old comment coz THIS actually hit me as a small child when we had it on VHS o:

[@diavalmoon]

Me too im so close to my mom but when i see this scene it always makes me cry

[@ReginaTrans_]

I watched it when I was 13 and as a gay little boy, the whole movie stucked in my head forever, specially the scenes with Teddy and when he was about to fall from the helicopter and said "I will break"

[@nirmalfernando3982]

I watched this movie when I was little too and it stayed me for a long time... Few minutes ago I remembered this scene after a long time. Then I searched for it

[@josechavabarbosa3480]

After so many years, I found it. Haven’t seen the movie but I have this blurry memory of 4 years old me in the living room playing with toys while my mom and sis were watching this scene that got stuck in my mind somehow without understanding any of it (it was dubbed and by that time i didn’t speak any english, barely could speak spanish lol) It’s amazing how it transmitted me so much energy that it stuck to me for 18 years.

[@soundtracksearch]

"I'm sorry I'm not real! If you let me, I'll be so real for you!" My heart just about broke. :(

[@sativasavanttv]

Sounds like a 1D line lmfao

[@NOOMYROOTBEER]

I cried at this part

[@waynefoutz]

This hit home for me too. My mom left when I was about the same age. I never got over it.

[@Seca90]

"im sry that i didnt tell you about the world" sadly....the older i get the more powerful is that line...

[@plateshutoverlock]

Same here

[@geee7511]

When you have to put down ur aggressive dog

[@lesilalafolle714]

Dang...

[@chrisstrijbosch9318]

@@plateshutoverlock the flesh fair, she says flesh fairs, ohhhh how that horror show, even when the crowd rips robots like david appart. she did it only to protect him. when he comes in that horror show

[@Fakeaorta]

Haley Joel Osment should have won an Oscar for that scene!

[@Novasigmia]

There’s a special place in hell for a cruel human being like her😡

[@K4R3N]

He didn't? Man that was intense acting!

[@Fakeaorta]

@@K4R3N I saw it in the theater. Just about everyone, including me, was crying!

[@LaFayette2024]

​@@NovasigmiaShe's not cruel! She believes she's saving him.

[@sweepkick]

@@LaFayette2024 Right. Her original intention was to return him, where she knew he would be destroyed. But she drove past the company and released him in the woods. Still... really tough scene to watch, an excellent acting by these two... Still gives me chills after 20 years.

[@VincentMalloyy]

2:36 This is how dogs probably feel when they're abandoned too.

[@eleanorhogan8643]

Or any animal to be fair.

[@VincentMalloyy]

@@eleanorhogan8643 Yeah

[@Jesus-vl2en]

🤣

[@usheriit7129]

​@@eleanorhogan8643, .. cockroaches?

[@kaecaeru]

a person can cry and still be cruel, it's unforgivable to force a bot to feel love and then abandon it.

[@CirrowProductions]

Robots cannot feel love. What is wrong with you people?

[@boynamedalexxx]

@@CirrowProductions in the context of this story, they can. It’s not that difficult to understand.

[@noahbody9782]

@@boynamedalexxx Not about robots feeing love. It's about love (and all emotions) not existing.

[@KIM-nc7ti]

@@CirrowProductions interesting to think isn’t it? What is love? To human it could be just electrochemical signal in their brain. To AI its also an electrical signal in their “brain”. So do they feel like human does? If not then do love exist to human? Denying what it felt could also denying what we felt

[@CirrowProductions]

@@KIM-nc7ti AIS DONT EXPEIRENCE SENSATIONS. GROW SOME BRAIN CELLS

[@stormthrush37]

For some reason, I find myself thinking of this scene in the middle of the Myka Stauffer scandal. I can only imagine how hard a scene like this would hit to a child who's actually been abandoned. It is an unfortunate reality that many who have kids do so for very selfish reasons.

[@Cagebreaker]

There are definitely parallels here. Like both of the Stauffer parents, the Swintons would never consider abandoning their biological child... and there’s no question about that. But the adopted boy, the child they didn’t create is thought of as lesser to their biological kids. A sweet child, cast out because the parent isn’t as willing to deal with deeper issues that could just easily crop up in their bio kids.

[@vambi100]

I watched tv is when I was so so young and This was the inly part of the movie I remembered enough to look it up. I remember feeling so scared that a child like me at the time was abandoned.

[@thbvcbgg6159]

when I watched a.I I thinked I am david. 5 days ago my mother gone forever

[@thbvcbgg6159]

firt time I watched with my mother and my uncle in the summer night, just like david my mother loves me not she love my brother

[@joratto2833]

@@thbvcbgg6159 real?

[@DF-ib2de]

It's September 2020 and I still cry with this scene

[@estelazalazar2428]

Enero 2021

[@edgardoaboytes8775]

2022 and I still cry with this scene

[@yourfreakreation1790]

2023 and I still cry to this scene

[@aliadeeb6859]

Man this music is perfect. It's creepy like you're running from a serial killer but instead the fear is of heartbreak

[@jocastadidntknew5980]

None other than John Williams!

[@soundtrackdude9995]

It's playing around with "When You Wish Upon a Star" I think. But like you said a horrifying inversion of the childhood bliss that song represents to David.

[@truthfullyidk2925]

The thing that really makes me cry is that the only thing that's kept david going was to become a real boy it's the thing that's given him purpose the thing that's given him hope

[@ReginaTrans_]

Omg stop it 😭😭😭😭

[@yo·aan]

what he truly wanted was the love of the mom he never had, Monica. He thought that by being a real boy then she would love him. He didn’t care about being a real little boy he just wanted Monica to love him.

[@LaFayette2024]

​@@yo·aanMonica does love David! It's just in a selfish way.

[@Cagebreaker]

Sadly when Monica imprinted on David, he became hard-wired to seek her love and be her son. Choosing not to have him destroyed wasn’t actually the selfless act she may or may not have thought it was. It left him unable to fulfill the hard-wiring of his system, his goal to love her and be with her. Later in the film (after he ends up with Professor Hobby) you can see how much the thought of being unable to fulfill his purpose affects him. He very deliberately lets himself fall from the building almost in an act of suicide.

[@drollknight6654]

I saw this when I was young and didn't fully comprehend what was happening. Rewatching this older my heart broke.

[@LaFayette2024]

The more I watch this scene, the more I see how much she loves him. She loves him selfishly and not more or the same as her (human) son and husband but she does love him.

[@insaners2420]

He should have won oscar for this scene alone. What a great acting!! Wow made everyone in tears..

[@kathyramos2924]

This movie is one of its kind and unique!! I’m glad I watched again!!

[@fredericknevels8589]

I watch this movie like crazy I think because I Found it interesting how David is not real but his love for his mom is and Also because I was loving the DVD meun music and the secen index.

[@boogiefunkproductions2368]

Back in 2001 when seeing this during the opening weekend there wasn't a dry eye in the theater during this scene.

[@Fakeaorta]

Yep. Everyone was crying! I looked around and all the men including me were wiping their eyes and sniffling! Haley should have won an Oscar for that scene!

[@ReginaTrans_]

I remember all the adults went to the premier at night leaving all their kids or teens at home, I was around 12 and my uncle and aunt left their 3 year old at my house with my sisters cause my parents left with them too, I just remember they came back with a blank face at 1am, so shocked talking about the movie, the loved it but it apparently it marked them...... Then we rented it a year later and I understood why........ It was probably deeper on me than my cousins cause I'm gay and it resonates a lot with gay kids, idk how to explain but it hits harder

[@Ghostrider-ul7xn]

"I'm sorry i didn't tell you about the world" When i was a child, like David, i was naive about extend of cruelty that existed in this world. My parents didn't even so much as hinted how superficial and materialistic people can be. Had they told me, I'd have made better choices in life and would have had a better quality of life compared to what i have now. Now its too late for me. I cannot go back nor things are going to change with this realization. I wish they told me about the world earlier

[@Doomxeen]

This scene is fucking devastating..

[@ReginaTrans_]

The whole movie is, with Teddy

[@WimGrundy]

In the story originally written, Mommy is alcoholic and David makes her martinis.

[@gamerguru7428]

They had to change it to "protect" the woman; instead of showing her how she really was, a bum.

[@thbvcbgg6159]

really?

[@MidJ971]

He would be a keeper that way 😂

[@yeetusmaximus2892]

No way..... Im an alcoholic too! 😊

[@venomwise]

@@yeetusmaximus2892 same here but it's nothing to be proud about lmao

[@colleenfinuf4188]

I remember watching this with my mom and brother at the drive in. I was 8 and I remember crying like a little b#@* at this scene. Me today: still cries like a b#@* to this. T0T

[@mike90susanoo84]

Bro, same man. Even today as a grown adult, this shit actually makes me cry

[@yeetusmaximus2892]

Same.

[@cellardoor4199]

this scene traumatized me as a kid.

[@megaroo6110]

This scene traumatizes me more as an adult, now that I have a son who looks exactly like Haley Joel Osment. I have nightmares about my son feeling heartbreak like this, it destroys me.

[@pahc5777]

I made a wrong move watching this move during a flight. After this scene I was a slobbering mess and even more so when he finally met her again in the end.

[@NotMe-el3hg]

This scene has always stayed with me

[@lentzu]

This was so sad

[@Tttggggggg]

Indeed it was man, indeed it was

[@NOOMYROOTBEER]

@@Tttggggggg this was the saddest movie I watched

[@gerald6894]

I cried so hard when I first watched this when I was 9

[@7xXSE7ENXx7]

I have two boys the same age now and i cant watch this anymore

[@megaroo6110]

Im comforted to find someone who feels the same. I made the mistake of watching this movie again and it traumatized me. I have a son who looks exactly like Haley Joel Osment and I see him when I watch this, it turns me in a walking pile of pure grief. Al I can think about is doing whatever I can to make sure my son will never feel like this.

[@selinaogorman8380]

So sad Monica abandons David like that breaks my heart every single time am am happy however David wasn’t alone he had Teddy by his side best character out of the whole movie.

[@dwezil6225]

She is abandoning him! But actually she is saving him from ben recycling in the factory, remember David has a bug! he has a glitch, that’s why he is unique

[@Jm86293]

One of the saddest moments in my childhood

[@HalfEatenMedia]

This movie is underrated

[@mountainous_port]

It was a hit back then though.

[@dutchvan.740]

David : Alone? Mommy: with teddy.

[@likableman1238]

Poor David! He didn't know he was being abandoned until that moment at 2:36!

[@gracebenjamin5548]

Poor David. Its all Martin and his friends fault.

[@K4R3N]

The world wasn't ready for this. Idea was doomed from the beginning. The African American fei student at the beginning of the movie was right

[@annyj6323]

I remember crying to this scene like crazy

[@istandstraight125]

I was 7 when i watched this. I didnt understand the movie at all but i remember feeling so sad watching this

[@haraldisdead]

Damn good acting. Made me tear up

[@BazookaJoe7565]

This scene makes me cry😢

[@prestonpham2074]

I was recently watching this film and got to this part when youtube took it down from free. Im so mad at them cutting out from such an amazing scene

[@lianasoares8052]

I cried. 😰

[@lazylion420]

everyone's so sad about this scene but she's saving his life

[@hibari4079]

She was? I watched this when I was a kid but I never understood why she abandoned him. What were the reasons again?

[@lazylion420]

@@hibari4079 so David was a temporary emotional 'replacement' for a real boy who was very ill and in a coma.. the family grew to love David, but the real boy unexpectedly recovered, and it became difficult for the parents to have both of them together in the home.. his mother understood that if she simply returned David to the factory, they would recycle and destroy him.. David's confusion makes this separation seem cruel, but she was guiding him into the forest towards other abandoned robots who could protect him. this was David's best chance of survival and she knew it.

[@hibari4079]

@@lazylion420 Thank you

[@Nickypink09]

@@lazylion420 ah makes sense. Still sad though 😢😢😢

[@eleanorhogan8643]

@@lazylion420 Which proves that she loved him.

[@thehh5118]

This is the only scene I remember from this movie

[@sweepkick]

This scene always makes me think of people dropping their dogs and cats off at the humane society. Breaks my heart.

[@oliverpony]

Honestly I think her abandoning him was more cruel than her just taking him back It's like if you have a really sick or Violent dog do you take to the pound to get eudoanized or Leave it in the wilderness to offend for itself?

[@troyjacksonjr8266]

That woman makes me sick for abandoning David.

[@BrandonKatrena-j6c]

The world would have been filled with extreme weeping "

[@cubdukat]

As much as I liked “A. I.,” it seemed that it had an identity crisis throughout the movie. It was either the grimmest Spielberg movie ever or the most optimistic Kubrick movie ever. This scene was one of the moments where you knew that it was a Spielberg movie; if it were a Kubrick movie, there’d be a quasi-intellectual discussion of some minutiae despite the obvious trauma raging around them (ex. Tom Cruise and the late Sydney Pollack discussing scotch at the end of “Eyes Wide Shut.”) This was one of the few scenes where you could look at it and say, “Spielberg did this.”

[@boogiefunkproductions2368]

Well stated, It honestly felt like a film that was directed by 3 different people.

[@yeetusmaximus2892]

Oh ok

[@kbros9698]

This was deliberate. In the book “From Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg: The Vision Behind The Film - A.I.”, Kubrick wanted to use Mode Jerks in this, a technique that “abruptly remove the viewer from one locale or time-space and drop them directly into another”

[@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697]

this scene always makes me cry so emotional and well acted but over the top

[@yeetusmaximus2892]

...you again.. 👁👄👁

[@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697]

@@yeetusmaximus2892 maybe we are just fans of the same movie

[@yeetusmaximus2892]

@@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697 best movie ever bro.

[@randiomettle4513]

MGTOW: Mommies going their own way

[@Tttggggggg]

no

[@rachelrumbold623]

3:13 😢 Stories, their not real. You're not real.

[@lesilalafolle714]

That scene was scary when i was young

[@freedom667]

just that's heart of a mother

[@troyjacksonjr8266]

David didn't deserve to be abandoned I would have taken him in and give him a home.

[@blacktornado5212]

People still have manually driven cars in the future.

[@K4R3N]

Just watched this scene with my kids. Then paused the movie and said we'll finish it tomorrow and sent them to bed 😂

[@stanwatcham3881]

I just had a sudden though, could A.I be in the same universe as Detroit become human? It would not surprise me

[@yeetusmaximus2892]

My water broke 😭

[@chrisstrijbosch9318]

and the shy crys stay away from flesh fairs, ohhhh shivers more of those horror shows, where in that time line those things happen those horror shows

[@msd5808]

This actually was a good movie. I don't know why I misjudged it so bad when it came out.

[@yeetusmaximus2892]

How dare u! 😞

[@msd5808]

​@Louise Sea I'm glad to see people come around to it. I remember I was one of those Kubrick fans who were upset by it, when it came out, because it was so Spielbergian. I think there had been multiple endings written before he died. One of them ended on David trying in vain to please his alcoholic mother in the virtual environment by making her Bloody Marys, and the hologram disintegrates because the advanced AI can't keep it going for some reason. But I do remember in the Kubrick Archives book by Alison Castle that the "happy" ending in the Spielberg film was already in one of the drafts Kubrick had been working on. It may have been something that would have been revised quite a lot had he lived to make it and during the process of making it, of course. I mean, there are even sketches by Chris Baker of a 19th century-era Eyes Wide Shut setting, which must have only been briefly considered before bringing it up to modern times. Though actually the ending that we get in the Spielberg film isn't so happy: they promise they can only keep her alive for one day, but really who believes that? David does, but he's a child. And it sounds like the kind of story you tell to a child to help him go to sleep at night. It's a bedtime story (fairy tale), as the movie is meant to be taken as. But really no doubt with their technology they could keep the virtual environment going indefinitely, and they are going to put him to sleep (kill him/deactivate him) after that as mercy, since they already retrieved the memories from his head. They got the data they were looking for. Because they're primarily excavating ruins of humanity from the ice. I don't think that was made clear enough in the movie. I also thought the voice of the head advanced AI robot at the end was done by Ben Kingsley, who narrates the film? Or am I wrong? If it's the same voice, then that means the story is actually being told by these advanced AI, from the distant future, beyond David's time, because the movie opens up with that voice. "Those were the days when the ice caps melted," or whatever he says. It might be a different actor and I have that wrong, though. The best essay I ever read about the movie was by Timothy Kreider on the web. Here is link... hopefully this posts... thepaincomics.com/A.I.pdf He seemed to actually appreciate the movie unlike most of the film critics and people on Stanley Kubrick forums.

[@Neurodivergent_Nat]

Omg I remember watching this with my sister and mum and I was worried my mother would leave me in the forest 😂😂 and my sister was like….I’m gonna leave you in the forest 😅 and I got so scared

[@WonderbrewA13X]

Fun Fact: If Martin never awoken from his sleep, then David would have been able to stay…. It’s all that stupid Hell child fault…

[@samanli-tw3id]

David is at the right side of the car but we see him through the left mirror.

[@speculesgorgoth4055]

What do we do now??? RUN ...RUN YOUR ASS OFF!!!

[@Selemba_]

This scene scares me

[@user-vf5oj6ko1e]

Sayako Kuroda and Ambassador Nikolai Nozdrev

[@loveadumb]

i say "i HAVE to GO" to my cat like this every day

[@lonepheasant3489]

Wasn't me

[@cirunaqheakin7924]

when I was 4 my dad told me I was a robot too and when I start to break they'll have to leave me in the woods like the movie

[@EarlOfLemongrabb]

wtf

[@K4R3N]

😂😂😂🤣

[@MVP527]

I find A.I. extremely creepy. I hate it.

[@amyellawrence6516]

Teddy isn’t creepy but David is

[@K4R3N]

Makes you think!!

[@aliadeeb6859]

If they ever relaunch the Pontiac aztek.....

[@MikeTooleK9S]

slow joey i'm so sorry 💀😹

[@Legomoviefan2008]

What the hell Dreamworks?!

[@Gabriel_playsmm2official]

What if this happend if i replaced my friend 🤔

[@royhsieh4307]

david was rather emotionless in entire movie until this scene. which is very sad.

[@speculesgorgoth4055]

Why is she driving??? Can't the car drive it's self???

[@jeffreyrichardson]

Johnathon Kyle Goffred USMC rip

[@arabiangenius8449]

It’s satisfying to see him cry

[@arbogonuddo]

Whats wrong with his eyes

[@BrandonKatrena-j6c]

Certificate of deposit financial documents time for vacation from cellphone

[@zomalfa4363]

They say this wasn't a kids movie, I disagree. You say "see kids, you best behave yourselfs. Look what happened to David, boy had it coming."

[@K4R3N]

Literally watched the movie tonight with my kids (8, 10, 13) paused right after this scene and told them to go to bed and we would continue tomorrow. 😂

[@K4R3N]

Also earlier tonight my 8 year old threw a Nintendo controller at our TV and smashed the screen. Had to get a new TV from Costco $500 so I hope he gets the message after watching this!! 😉

[@zomalfa4363]

That's impressive. You know I work at an animal shelter and there is so much similarity to this. People chain their dogs up to stop signs and walk away.

[@K4R3N]

@@zomalfa4363 that's why I won't get a pet..I don't want to be burdened. I have enough mouths to feed as it is. Maybe in ten years when I'm older and my kids move away and I live alone

[@daveespi8101]

Destroy it

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

I didn't want to do this to the man who I mutually loved and who was faithful to me and loved me and want to be with, we both wanted to be together, but I'm glad I rejected him just as truthfully as this - though I didn't leave him in the woods. I still hurt and miss and want to go back but you know what - I would reject him all over again. I deserve better than him and he needs to move on and if he does find someone else, then I will be free.

[@johndoe-is2fw]

he deserves better than you. you will never be free from him.

[@sativasavanttv]

He deserves better bruh

[@somesweetdreamm]

What? If he was faithful and good to you then what was the point in leaving him? Loyalty is about as good as human devotion gets. How could you possibly find someone better and why do you think you’re entitled to that? It sounds like you just got bored and ran away. Not good.

[@xygomorphic44]

Wow. I hope to God you weren't married to him because holy hell... what a cold, cruel thing to do to a man. Sorry to break this to you princess, but you don't deserve jack shit.

[@dididavidson1354]

SAD as

[@eddyrdz1969]

OMFG this movie copy the simpson

[@Sra.Doubtfire]

I have to say, that robot boy is not very smart, otherwise he would understabd why is she doing this

[@thorbat]

David was programmed to have the mentality and logic of the little boy that he was made to look like so of course he wouldn’t understand why the woman he’s come to know as a mother is abandoning him, he wasn’t made to be smart, only sentient.

[@mountainous_port]

He did understood. He understood that he isnt real thats why the mother left him.

[@andrewferris8169]

This is literally the ugliest looking movie of all time. So glad early 2000s movies learned how to color grate.

[@LukeDunn6667]

Ugh, cringy af, I'll be so real for you, that does not sound like something you say to a parent.

[@Indahowse]

How do you not understand he is saying that because he thinks if he becomes a real boy she will love him, that’s what the whole finding the blue fairy was about

[@43nostromo]

I'm sorry you don't have the ability to abstract think. Which is certainly cringier.

[@LukeDunn6667]

@@Indahowse Who said I didn't understand, it's simply that it sounds a whole lot like he's trying to avoid being dumped.

[@LukeDunn6667]

@@43nostromo On the basis of one comment made for the sake of comedic relief you've summed me up as a person, sounds like you're the one who has trouble thinking.

[@LukeDunn6667]

@yes sir Um, no?

[@AoiGP]

I would've done the same. David was a cruel mecha.

[@davecerrillo4186]

My name is David Cerrillo. I live in Wa State