Zima Blue

Love, Death, and Robots Episode, Zima Blue

[stevenbarba]

Im just now realizing the reason he made the murals so large is because compared to the walls of a pool, he was quite small, so they appeared large to him, hence his ever want to return to being smaller, so it would be easier to find that same feeling from being a small machine in a simple pool

[manuelnunez]

The thing that is most beautiful about this story is that it's an allegory for humanity's search for meaning and the return to the Eternal Source as we once were.

[Evergreen_Wizard]

- What is my purpose?
- To clean swimming pools.
- Actually, this is not that bad.

[Drekromancer]

Out of everything in LDR, this episode is the one that stuck with me.

[Chillextremist]

To extract some simple pleasure from the execution of a task well done. This episode was perfect.

[Dcraft_TNT]

I just realized that the animation studio that made this "passion pictures" also helps make tron uprising by designing the art style and character design

[mikevg]

I really enjoyed this episode. Through all of its existence, through the knowledge, wonders, and wisdom it found... in the search for the ultimate answer. The robot found it was a simple thing.

[bananatiergod]

This short is one of my top three favorites. No blood or nudity or curse words, just a fascinating story about a legend that had a humble start and end. The final scene will always make me feel warm and fuzzy.

[Maethendias]

one of the very few examples of popular ai fi that ACTUALLY is a story about artificial sapience and not humans as robots

[angelavila]

La ciencia ficción nos enseñó que las máquinas se hacen inteligentes para luego conquistar y esclavizar a la humanidad, esta historia es muy diferente, una máquina que evolucionó por años tomando conciencia pero luego esta máquina quiere volver al origen : sentir de nuevo el placer de hacer una tarea simple y bien hecha .

[MesMesTes]

nahh i heard the cyberpunk music and got hit with memories

[fireemblemistrash]

This was the best episode of Love Death & Robots. Truly a beautiful film this individual episode alone was

[aldrinmilespartosa]

Just because its simple, doesnt mean it isnt meaningful. Glad you finally rediscovered your meaning Zima.

[abhinavsharma]

Still can't get over this episode

[isaacsudduth]

Life is a cycle with a beginning and an end. We were born of the earth and the ash and the dust. So must we return to the earth, ash and dust. It was the same for Zima. He began as something so simple, developed into someone incredible, only to return to what he began.

[JARGUN]

Humans also have this desire but we can’t do this, reject humanity and return to primordial soup from where all life on earth started.

[angelbabydragon]

In the future both people and robots will watch this and wonder: where did we truly begin, where are we now, were are we headed?

[BSIHRI]

Zima was upgraded, he kept upgrading himself, growing bigger and smarter, until he reached the end, he found the truth, he was enlightened by it but.. what's left to do now?

Zima reached his destination, his goal, to find the truth but now that the truth is found, there's nothing more to be done.. except he remembers something, he HAS a purpose, there is something to be done, a task to be fulfilled, a task he was originally made to do, a simple one, cleaning a pool.

[whydid]

There is two responses to learning your ultimate purpose is something menial and mundane like "butter bot".
The first is the most common that being abject horror at the cruel cosmic joke.
Other is to acknowledge it and preform the task well.

[maqshahjahan]

This reminds me of the 2nd part of the Japanese animated anthology film "Neotokyo" where a journalist was interviewing a racer