Screen Inspired - Robotic But Emotional Lessons In "Are You Human?"

If there is one thing about movies after entertainment, it is the lessons each of them has to teach the viewers. Even though some people will say there's nothing to learn in some movies, if one will look again, there is a tiny bit of lesson to learn.

I can bet that long before now, I didn't see movies to learn any lesson from them, I mean, movies are for fun and entertainment so why should I be watching out for lessons to learn? Well, that's what I thought until I knew better.

As a movie lover, I've seen countless movies all my life and it's been from one lesson learnt to another and it's never ending as long as I am seeing more movies. Deciding on one movie to talk about that taught me a lot was hard, you would blame the fact that I've seen so many good movies and series.

One of the many with great lessons to learn from is, Are You Human?

I saw this Korean series almost five years ago but somehow I'm reminded of it when I thought about movies that have taught and inspired me from watching them. Many movies are fictional but this series is more fictional than the many we know because it is about a robot who is created to act like a human until the human is back to good health.

How can such a fictional series have lessons to teach it's viewers?

Even I wouldn't have thought it possible and would think I'll just have fun watching a robot play the robot it is made to play. But it was from one lesson to another when I started seeing this series, I know it's all a role given to the guy who played the robot part but the lessons are not to be taken lightly.

Is it about how fast the robot learnt the human emotions even though human emotions are very complicated?

How the robot showed his emotions without a heart to other humans taught me more about unconditional love. You don't need something in return to show true love, humans can be very greedy but this series teaches against it and I had so much I learnt from scenes focusing on those aspects.

Is it about how everyone came to accept a robot after thinking it was a threat to mankind?

The lesson I learnt from this is that, acceptance may take time but it happens and before it happens, it's best for one to accept oneself the way one is and that will pave way for others to accept them. It's a beautiful lesson especially being learnt from a robot who is one that seemed unacceptable.