Bibo
Bibo, 'It is not just a machine... He is different' Bibo is a robot, he has a warranty for 100,000 years.
Bibo wheels his Ice Cream trailer to his corner each day, he watches the clock, no one comes, day after day, after day. We have little clues that not everything is how it seems. Where is everybody? We don't see any customers and Bibo seems to be remembering back to his past, echoing with the sounds of children's laughter.
The opening of the film lets us see Bibo in his environment, there are clues to his past in his picture frames on the walls and the commentary running in the background. One day Bibo has a vivid flashback, a hallucination. He goes home and he creates a friend for himself. We do not know what he is going to do with his new automaton or who she is but again the film makers give us clues. Bibo has created this whole world in order to recreate the good times in his life.
Bibo wheels his Ice Cream trailer to his corner each day, he watches the clock, no one comes, day after day, after day. We have little clues that not everything is how it seems. Where is everybody? We don't see any customers and Bibo seems to be remembering back to his past, echoing with the sounds of children's laughter.
The opening of the film lets us see Bibo in his environment, there are clues to his past in his picture frames on the walls and the commentary running in the background. One day Bibo has a vivid flashback, a hallucination. He goes home and he creates a friend for himself. We do not know what he is going to do with his new automaton or who she is but again the film makers give us clues. Bibo has created this whole world in order to recreate the good times in his life.
Teaching ideas
- Rewrite the story as a narrative.
- Write an explanation of how the machine/robot works.
- Create an emotions graph for Bibo.
- Write a story with flashbacks, imagine Bibo playing with the little girl, perhaps he belonged to her family?
- Design a robot/machine. What does it do? How does it work?
- Discuss where everybody has gone.
- Where are the humans?
- What effect does the music have on the film?
- Write a prequel to the film ending in Bibo being alone.
- Pause the film when Bibo is in his workshop ask the children to decide what he is building and why.
- Write a biography of Bibo over a long period of time, perhaps he had other jobs, ones he liked, jobs he disliked etc
- The possibilities grow the more time you watch this film.
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