This was a thought-provoking seventy minutes. It concerned a widower whose brother introduced to his household a virtually perfect woman robot. This was partly to cheer up the widower but much more to test the robot. Needless to say the widower eventually fell in love with the robot whose final triumph was to demand that the man took off his old wedding ring and give it to her - at which point she shut down and the scientist brother came to say the experiment was over. however, things had progressed to the point that the widower was now grieving anew.
Although the writer perhaps wanted us to consider the difference between a perfect robot and the real thing, what struck me as the most interesting subject was the attributes that make for attraction - apart from the plain physical, the woman was fine-tuned to appear somewhat vulnerable and it was at the point that the widower found her sleeping in his garden that his fate was sealed. A sleeping person supposedly brings out our protective instincts. We had the opportunity to compare the widower's succumbing to the robot with his daughter's somewhat unsuccessful love-life with human boyfriends.
Although there were moments when the writing seemed a bit clunky, I thought this a worthwhile evening with great performances by all the four actors.
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