Looking at this now, with real AI starting to emerge...

Watched this when it came out, and I still don't like it very much for it's limp overall story Arc that sort of just plods through things, but watching now, in a post black mirror era, with A.I. almost realized, this film is very different.

When David was being left in the woods, I used to think it was very sad for the mom, since the mother bonded pretty well with him.
Now, I just see it like David is a flashlight she just tossed in the woods, just wires and programming to act like a little boy. Just turn him off, no big deal. If a recording, or a video, or even a robot tells you it loves you over and over, that doesn't mean it actually loves you, just that is what it was manufactured to do.

Perhaps it is my own growing lack of apathy for "Sentient AI" where I don't care if we think, or it thinks it is alive, it is still just a flash light that you can take the batteries out of, no big deal. Just a thing. You aren't killing a flash light by turning it off, or removing the batteries... it's just a flashlight. If, for some reason, you get attached to a flashlight or think you love it, well, there is need for psychiatric help in your future.

And it's kinda scary watching the bots self repair in the garbage pile.
Well, if we're dumb enough to make AI outgrow us, we deserve whatever TERMINATOR style future we have coming.