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Collodi's Pinocchio is not a utopian novel, but by positing a world in which responsible boyhood and adulthood are possible, it distinguishes itself from works like A.I., in which maturation is purposely and systematically denied. Ironically, the production schedule for A.I. would have been more leisurely had it been filmed in a world where growing up is impossible. According to Dustin Putman, the film was shot in 20 weeks rather than a year because Haley Joel Osmet was maturing too fast for comfort....<br> | Collodi's Pinocchio is not a utopian novel, but by positing a world in which responsible boyhood and adulthood are possible, it distinguishes itself from works like A.I., in which maturation is purposely and systematically denied. Ironically, the production schedule for A.I. would have been more leisurely had it been filmed in a world where growing up is impossible. According to Dustin Putman, the film was shot in 20 weeks rather than a year because Haley Joel Osmet was maturing too fast for comfort....<br> | ||
A.I.'s disturbing and somewhat incongruous conclusion marks it as a dystopia of childhood, a world in which perpetual childhood leads to endless frustration....<br> | A.I.'s disturbing and somewhat incongruous conclusion marks it as a dystopia of childhood, a world in which perpetual childhood leads to endless frustration....<br> | ||
[P]aternalistic totalitarianism treats everyone as if they were children and treats children as chattel. | <mark>[P]aternalistic totalitarianism treats everyone as if they were children and treats children as chattel</mark>. | ||
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