一场车祸夺走了岩本聪母亲的生命,岩本聪(本乡奏多 饰)也因此致残,活在自闭的小世界里,连上学都成为了负担。父亲痛爱儿子,研制出机械人H603给他作伴。岩本聪干脆远程遥控这个机械人,让他替代自己上学。
H603来到学校,对周围的事物感到好奇,同学们都叫他“丝柏人”。岩本聪用电脑技术,配合在丝柏人身上应付各种现实生活中的际遇。 丝柏人认识了纯(多部未华子 饰)——一个霸道帅气的女生,岩本聪通过丝柏人同纯开始了默契的交流。
但是,一个可怕的流言摧毁了岩本聪、丝柏人和纯之间的关系。丝柏人能否脱离险境,岩本聪能否获得心灵的救赎,走出心理阴影,事情充满变数……。This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops.
At the end of the film, Keaton's character locks up the cops in the police station. However, the girl he is trying to woo disapproves of his behavior and gives him the cold shoulder. Therefore, he unlocks the police station and is immediately pulled in by the cops. The film ends with the title "The End" written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it.
One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.。