Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse the 1999 film version of Isaac Asimov<siThe Bicentennial Manj (1976), a film that reflects the changing status of thedichotomy human/non-human in our culture. The idea of blurring the humanbody boundaries has become one of the most repeated and successful subjectmatters of the science-fiction genre, a subject especially attractive in a timethat some critics have defined as ipost-humanj. Starting from Norbert Wienertheories we will see different approaches to the idea of the cyborg and theipost-humanj, which will help us to understand the changing relationshipbetween machine, robot and cyborg in Bicentennial Man (1999). We willanalyse in which ways the film answers the question: what does it mean to behuman in a posthuman world?
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