In a hyper-controlled future where an AI enforces safety by suppressing human instinct, a disabled boy awakens a long-buried military robot and must hide it, becoming a threat to the rules of his world and risking his freedom to play.
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A very nice animated story.
A little concerned that it doesn’t distinguish itself too much from themes already explored in “Big Hero 6”, “Wall-E”, “Mitchells Vs The Machines” & “Next-Gen”.
Still a fun read, congrats on making the top 26!
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Awesome story.
Can’t wait to see it as a film but lowkey feeling it is not unique from other movies in this themes.
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Thank you all for the thoughtful feedback, I truly appreciate it.
At its core, the film draws from Orwellian ideas, exploring the tension between safety and autonomy:
what matters more, the freedom that comes with the risk of being hurt, or the security that may cost us our ability to choose?
This conflict is grounded in the story of a family living inside this system, and in the presence of a machine that begins as a weapon, but gradually becomes something closer to a protector, forcing them to confront what it really means to be human.
At the heart of it, there’s a simple idea that guides the story:
our role as parents is not to prevent our children from getting hurt, but to prepare them for when it happens.
I’m continuing to develop the project and refine how these ideas come through, so it’s genuinely valuable to hear how the world and its tone are perceived at first glance.
Always open to more thoughts, especially how this world feels to you.
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I’ll be honest, I read this script expecting a cutesy “boy meet robot” story, but I ended up finding one of the most insanely deep animated movies I’ve read so far.
This is an extremely timely concept that will still work in ten years. It really made me confused why some in this forum mentioned they felt it wasn’t unique, since you have to read the entire thing to understand what makes it special.
As for what I got from it: I loved it. I loved Kevin, he is adorable; Armstrong is adorable, and the dad had an entire arc that felt genuinely relatable as an adult, not necesarily as a parent.
Also and I can’t stress this enough, the fact that an animated feature made it this far in the competition is remarkable on its own. The field skews overwhelmingly toward live-action, and animation has to work three times as hard to prove it belongs in the same conversation as dramatic adult fare. The fact that this one does says a lot about what’s on the page.
I really hope this one in particular wins, it feels completely fresh from all the other dramas, thrillers, horrors and comedies, it feels like something genuinely different.
Great job for the writter!
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