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''Android'' is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Aaron Lipstadt and starring Don Keith Opper and Klaus Kinski. The film follows the story of a scientist and his assistant who are working on an illegal android program from their lab on a space station in orbit around the Earth.〔 The film was voted Best Science Fiction Film in 1983 by ''The Age'', but has received a somewhat mixed reaction from critics and viewers. == Plot == In the year 2036 a human-looking android named Max 404 (Don Keith Opper), and his creator, Doctor Daniel (Klaus Kinski), reside aboard a remote space station. Although Max is a machine he has growing interest in all things human, especially sex, and is caught by Daniel watching a sexual instruction video. After Daniel admonishes him, Max eavesdrops on the doctor's report that Max's growing insubordinate behavior could lead to mutiny similar to an incident back on Earth known as the "Munich Revolution" after which androids were outlawed. It is then revealed that Daniel is illegally working on another android, Cassandra One (Kendra Kirchner), a female who he believes will be a superior machine. Next Max receives a distress call from a ship that seeks repairs. Upon hearing the pilot's female voice, he excitedly permits them to land, not realizing that the ship is a prison transport and the pilot, Maggie (Brie Howard), and her associates, Keller (Norbert Weisser) and Mendes (Crofton Hardester), the latter her lover, are escaped fugitives. Once aboard the station, the convicts settle in, posing as the transport's crew whom were previously killed during the prison break. Daniel becomes infuriated when he learns Max allowed the ship to land and demands they leave immediately, but he quickly changes his mind when he meets the attractive Maggie and invites her to have dinner with him in his personal garden. Maggie joins Daniel but the dinner goes wrong when a jealous Max pranks the doctor with some embarrassing mischief like ball-bearings in the wine bottle and cutting the doctor's orchids. Daniel then pointedly asks Maggie if she would link up with his female android in an attempt to transfer sexual experiences to the machine. Maggie learns she would need to be sexually stimulated by the doctor during the procedure and she declines the ludicrous offer. Daniel becomes frustrated and demands Maggie help him, but she makes a hasty exit. Daniel returns to the lab and angrily reports in his log, (again overheard by Max), that once Cassandra is ready he will be deactivating Max. While the criminals work on the ship, a TerraPol police cruiser arrives having detected a still-active transponder on their ship, and contacts Max to inform them of their presence. Max denies that the fugitives are on board even though he checks the crew's identity to confirm they are indeed escaped convicts. When the police demand permission to land, Max destroys their ship with a laser. Max then tells Maggie that he knows of her plight but has saved her from the police. He then asks that she take him with her when she leaves the station. Maggie is unsure of what to do, but later sneaks away from Mendes and meets Max in the lab for an intimate encounter. The two are, however, interrupted when Cassandra activates and Maggie becomes horrified when she learns that Max is also an android. Maggie returns to her quarters, but she is confronted by a furious Mendes who demands to know where she sneaked off to. When he notices her disheveled appearance and unbuttoned shirt he begins to beat her. Keller enters and tries to stop Mendes, but is knocked unconscious. Mendes then attacks Maggie. Once Keller awakens he sees Maggie is dead and believes Mendes killed her. But it is Dr. Daniel who killed Maggie. Keller goes after Mendes again, jumping him from behind, but Mendes manages to kill him with a blow to the head. Eventually Max arrives, suitcase in hand, to Maggie's quarters, but finds her dead. He sadly returns to Daniel's lab where the doctor has activated Cassandra. Daniel has Max sit in a chair and opens a door on the back of his head to reprogram him. Daniel tells Max that murder must be punished, leading Max and the viewer to believe that Mendes killed Maggie. Daniel sends Max out to kill Mendes. In the meantime, more police ships arrive and when communications aren't established, they forcefully board the station. After killing Mendes, Max goes to Maggie's room, touches her lifeless body, and finds Dr. Daniel's missing flashlight underneath Maggie. He and the viewer now realizes that it was Dr. Daniel who killed Maggie, not Mendes. Max returns to the lab. There Daniel has made sexual advances to Cassandra, who has resisted him and is holding him at bay. Daniel asks Max to hold Cassandra for him. After refusing to obey his orders, Daniel begins to struggle with the two androids and they rip his head off, revealing that Daniel himself is an android. Cassandra then disposes of Daniel's head in a trash chute and begins to reprogram Max. She tells Max they are not meant to obey the whims of men. There are other androids on earth in hiding and she wants to join them. She has a plan. When the police arrive at the lab, Cassandra thanks them for coming to their rescue. Max is now dressed in a lab coat and posing as Dr. Daniel and Cassandra is his assistant. She takes Max by the arm and the two are escorted out by the police who say they will be taking them back to Earth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Android (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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