Android story
The film tells the story of a scientist and his assistant who are working on an illegal android program in their laboratory on a space station in deep space.
10 total · 4 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| android | major | The story followed the android Max 404 as he pursued his interest in all things human, especially sex. In addition, Dr. Daniel was building the female android Cassandra One which he considered to be superior to Max 404. In a surprise twist, Dr. Daniel was himself revealed to be an android. |
| facing organized pursuit | major | The trio of fugitives Maggie, Keller, and Mendes stopped at the space station to repair their ship as the fled the space police. |
| maker and machine | major | Dr. Daniel planned to terminate his android creation Max 404 and replace him with a superior android. |
| space station | major | The film is set on a remote space station. |
| AI risk to civilization | minor | It seemed that Dr. Daniel was making androids on a remote space station because such research was prohibited on Earth out of concerns that the androids would rebel. The film concluded with Cassandra One and Max 404 going to Earth to join an android underground movement to overthrow their human oppressors. |
| coping with a jealous lover | minor | Maggie was terrorized and ultimately strangled by her boyfriend after he started to think that she was interested in Max 404. |
| criminal fraud | minor | Maggie had been convicted of some sort of corporate fraud. |
| food synthesizer | minor | Max 404 demonstrated to the fugitives how to use a machine in their quarters that could synthesize chicken and beef dinners at the push of a button. |
| romantic jealousy | minor | Mendes was jealous of the android Max for flirting with his girl Maggie, and Mendes ultimately murdered Maggie in a fit of jealous rage. |
| speculative spaceship | minor | A spaceship with a crew of escaped fugitives docked at the space station. We also saw some space police cruisers. |