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Ron's Gone Wrong is is an American animated film released in 2021, which was directed by Sarah Smith. Barney is a middle school student with the social disabilities. Ron is his brand-new AI partner robot for walking, communication and digital connections. This film mainly tells the story of a companion AI robot, Ron, who with some defects becomes the protagonist Barney’s “best friend”. In the process of getting along with each other, Ron's hilarious glitch takes them on an action-packed journey in which boys and robots embrace the beauty and chaos of real friendships, and they gradually formed a deep friendship, but the robot company wanted to destroy Ron.

Setting

The story of this movie takes place in the future not far from the present. With the continuous progress of human science and technology, artificial intelligence swept the world, and it was inseparable from people’s lives at that time. At a product launch, a technology company showed off to everyone its newly developed robot “B-bot”.

Plot

“B-bot” not only has complete functions and meets various needs in people's daily life, but also becomes a good friend who knows children best through algorithm analysis and gives children complete companionship throughout the year. Sure enough, the cross-era invention “B-bot” in Ron's Gone Wrong was welcomed by people and quickly became an indispensable daily necessity in children's lives as soon as it was launched. However, the 12-year-old protagonist Barney is a minority exception, the only child in the school who does not have a “B-bot” robot. For this reason, he often feels lost. Because his family is not rich, whenever students use their “B-bot” to play social games between classes, Barney can only see classmates having fun and feel lonely and envious at the same time.

Barney is a middle school student with social disabilities who always stands on the edge of the school with social fear. On Barney’s 12th birthday, he failed to send the party invitations he had prepared in advance to his classmates and was even ridiculed and bullied by his classmates because he did not have a “B-bot”. However, he finally got his wish on his birthday and got a “B-bot” robot named “Ron” with great expectations. Unlike Barney’s initial expectations, this gift did not immediately make him happy and satisfied. Instead, Barney was dumbfounded by a series of out-of-order acts, because the “B-bot” given to him by Barney's father was a defective product thrown to the ground in the process of transportation, and this series of events changed the life of Barney.

In the process of getting along and getting to know each other, Barney and Ron’s interaction makes every child who grows up feeling empathy for every child who feels “less so social”. In particular, the two of them had an experience in the woods as two people making enemies of the world, hiding in a hidden corner and supporting each other.

Cast

Jack Dylan Grazer as Barney Pudowski, the male protagonist in the film.

Zach Galifianakis as Ron, Barney's "B-bot".

Ed Helms as Graham Pudowski, Barney's father.

Olivia Colman as Donka Pudowski, Barney's grandmother.

Rob Delaney as Andrew Morris, the COO of the Bubble company.

Justice Smith as Marc Wydell, the creator of the B-bot and the CEO of the Bubble company.

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Production

Accolades

Ethical Issues

Human Relationships with Artificial Intelligence

Nowadays, in the Internet era, although information flows rapidly and information transmission becomes more convenient, many people are fascinated by social media, and their lives are completely occupied by technological products, thus losing some important insights. In fact, the “B-bot” in the movie is like the smartphone that we can't live without now. People use it for socializing, entertaining, and streaming. But in the film, as a technological product born for lonely people, the emergence of the “B-bot” has contributed to more serious small circles and more false social presentation. Although its complete function can bring more convenience to people’s lives, many problems behind it cannot be ignored.

In this film, Ron is Barney’s new walking, communication, and digital connection equipment. Ron is Barney's “best friend out of the box”. In an era full of the context of social media, Ron’s hilarious glitch brought them into an action-packed journey, in which a boy and a robot embraced the beauty and chaos of real friendship. Some children lose real communication and interaction because “B-bot” has only one friend invitation and love. The distance and relationship between them are gradually alienated, and people’s hearts become more lonely and empty. Therefore, Ron, as a robot recognized as a defective product, can have a real friendship with Barney. It is also more valuable in an era when everyone is constrained by scientific and technological products. Because the real emotional connection is complex and intertwined, it cannot be explained by simple technological algorithms.

Ron and Barney, two people who are not recognized by the world, met in an accident and experienced an adventure to subvert their original life together. Although there were quarrels and conflicts along the way and caused many disasters, Barney went to the cloud of “B-bot” company’s headquarters to retrieve the erasure of Ron’s memory. In the process of mutual support, they find their self-worth and understand the true meaning of friendship. A social phobia boy and factory defective robot showed other normal people what friendship is. Friendship is not a “like” or message on a social network, but staying together and liking each other. It is “You chose me and I chose you.” The robot needs electricity to keep running, but he would rather run out of all its electricity than save his friend from the mountains. In the end, the film did not destroy the “B-bot” robots’ company, but through the moving and touching separation of Barney and Ron, it evokes the audience's emotions while examining reality, and really provides solutions to the problems that the double-edged sword of science and technology may bring about at present. To some extent, this is quite worthy of our consideration.

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