Frustrating but engrossing, and impossible to critique in-depth without spoilers because it's driven by regular plot twists, "I Am Mother" adds another memorable creation to an already packed gallery of intelligent science fiction robots that are as complex as most humans. This review discusses the entire plot in detail, so you'd best bail out now if you haven't seen it, with the assurance that it's worth having an opinion on. The title character is a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence who lives in a high-tech underground research facility, tending embryos and raising one that she activated and nurtured. This aluminum lady is voiced by Rose Byrne, embodied by Luke Hawker, and rendered by Weta Digital, in a collaborative performance as fully realized any you've seen. The robot's heavy-footed yet graceful motions evoke RoboCop when she's clomping around, and the T-1000 from "Terminator 2 Judgment Day" when she's sprinting. But as physically imposing as she is, Mother would be nothing without her child Clara Ruugard, whom she raised from an embryo and addresses as Daughter. Their fraught central relationship elevates "I Am Mother" beyond mere proficiency and makes it memorable, despite a lingering feeling that the filmmakers never quite figured out how to capitalize on their morally and philosophically rich premise, and settled instead for the superficial, cliff-hanging pleasures of "And then this happened..." The most frustrating thing about "I Am Mother" is the way it favors the unveiling of plot twists over nearly everything else, including characterization, theme, and the related pleasures of world-building. In retrospect, the entire production feels misshapen. It spends more time assuring us of the benevolent relationship between Mother and Daughter than the movie needed, considering that no robot with the body of a combat droid, the voice of Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and a single, unblinking, HAL-9000-style eye is going to turn out to be entirely loving and harmless. The movie also needlessly delays the arrival of the movie's second, rival "mother" figure Hilary Swank's character, mostly fails to develop the idea of her as a plausible rival for the daughter's affections, then effectively waves away what little we were given by implying that she was an early version of Daughter and part of some kind of sinister grand plan. No sooner are we out of the shelter than Daughter goes back home for some good old-fashioned matricide, and throughout the film's second half, you sometimes get the feeling that the moviemakers are using intimate, intense scenes of suspense and violence to run out the clock and make a movie that's built around just three characters feel "bigger" and more "cinematic." Alex Garland's "Ex Machina," which likewise had a small cast and was set mainly at a research facility, is a superior example of the same kind of movie, building to a peak of savagery that it absolutely earns, and tying every violent action to the psychology of its characters. Pixar fans will raise an appreciative eyebrow at the compressed opening montage, prankishly scored to a cover of "Baby Mine" from "Dumbo" and nodding to both the tearjerking opening montage of "Up" and the wordless first act of "Wall-E" a harmonic convergence of Disney references. The latter is also set some time after an ecological catastrophe that wiped out humankind, although we get incomplete information here as to whether robots actively caused the death of civilization or just ran rampant in the aftermath. The Swank character's account of robots torturing babies is more disturbing than many sequences where violence is actually shown, and it prepares us for the moment when Mother backs her against a wall and sticks a metal finger in her wound. That being said, the latter is one of many moments that don't make a lot of sense once you get to the film's powerful and cryptic ending. If Swank's visitor was being permitted to live the whole time because she's part of a larger cycle or plan involving the extinction and repopulation of the planet—and in fact has been left alone all these years for precisely that reason—then why was it necessary to torture her in order to learn the whereabouts of the other humans she mentioned to Daughter? These and other questions might not loom so large in the viewer's mind if "I Am Mother" had fully delivered on the promise of its setup. If it weren't so concerned with flipping the plot upside-down every 15 minutes in the manner of a Netflix series, hmmm the movie might've evolved into an unsettling meditation on artificial intelligence, and the legitimacy of simulated or manufactured feelings. It asks questions that science fiction has been posing for generations now, and that are regularly in the news in this era of increasingly sophisticated AI. If a robot is programmed to feel, and experiences a mother's positive feelings of investment and identification, as well as negative feelings like petty jealousy, rejection and rage, then who's to say that those feelings are "fake"—especially if they lead to actions as inevitably as a human's would? The movie regularly complicates our feelings about Mother's menacing and controlling behavior by confirming that she truly does feel maternal emotions for Daughter. That these feelings are probably closer on the movie moms spectrum to "Mommie Dearest" or "The Manchurian Candidate" than "Almost Famous" or "Terms of Endearment" doesn't diminish their legitimacy. This blocky droid really does think she knows what's best for her children, even if her logic makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Directed by Grant Sputore and written by Michael Lloyd Green, "I Am Mother" is based loosely, it appears on the The Search for WondLa, the first in a trilogy of young adult science fiction novels by Tony DiTerlizzi. It seems as if it is positioning itself as the opening chapter in a series of movies, and it takes care to point out that all three of its major characters are alive at the end, and in no rush to die off. But is "I Am Mother" really commercial franchise material? There are many moments where it seems to embrace that tendency, but just as many where it seems determined to undermine it. The most obvious example of the latter is the ending. Although it's guaranteed to prompt cries of "I wasted two hours of my life for this?"—people tend to reject any ending where good doesn't obviously win—it's the best thing about the movie, the thing that makes it more than a smashing portfolio of production design or a collection of things that happen. It's an unusually realistic assessment of the endlessly replicating cycles of abuse that have been a common thread through human history it seems Daughter isn't the first daughter that Mother has messed up. It also acknowledges the relative impossibility of humans defeating a super-strong, super-intelligent robot army that they themselves created. The script's cleverest twist is making us think we're seeing yet another story where killing the leader of a malevolent force deactivates or neutralizes all of their minions as well a video game cliche, deployed in everything from "The Phantom Menace" to "Game of Thrones", only to assure us in the very next scene that Mother is a hydra with a seemingly infinite number of heads, just as she told Daughter. And what are we to make of that final closeup of Daughter's face? I took it to mean that she's a chip off the old aluminum block this is a Frankenstein story wherein the monster Mother became a creator herself breeding humans from embryos, in a eugenics operation. Now the creature's "daughter" contemplates activating the embryos herself, possibly becoming the matriarchal leader of her very own nation-state—one that might be capable of opposing the robots that once tormented her kind. That's all just a guess, of course—the way the movie sets up and pays off its last ten minutes seems an invitation to speculate and project, which is what real science fiction as opposed to science-fiction-flavored action or horror does best. I'll be thinking about the substance of this movie, and the dissonant and strangely melancholy notes that it leaves us with, long after the particulars of its plot have faded from my memory. Matt Zoller Seitz Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of TV critic for New York Magazine and and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Now playing Film Credits I Am Mother 2019 Rated NR 114 minutes Latest blog posts about 1 hour ago about 4 hours ago about 5 hours ago 1 day ago Comments
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It is possible that Woman was a previous iteration, but one factor leads me to think it isn't. The embryo Mother removes on DAY 1 after extinction event is identified as APX01. The Daughter we see as a near adult and helping Woman, I will call APX 03, based on the identification on the test unit she used. We first see her is on DAY 13,867, almost 38 years after the extinction event. I take it that APX03 was the third iteration since there are three embryos missing from the female storage stack. Since the age of the character Woman is not defined, I think it is fair to say she could be older than 38, I think she looks older. Hilary Swank is 44. So it seems more likely that Woman was six years old when the extinction event happened. Which would make it entirely plausible she was familiar with The Tonight Show.Whilechasing some people, it discovered that a mini-society had formed inside the mines. In the early days of the apocalypse, people were still compassionate. Mother left the baby where it could be noticed and someone took her in. Woman grew up in the mine and learned to survive.
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Zigzag2R In the standard Zigzag.mq4 the style DRAW_SECTION was used for drawing. This style allowed drawing only lines between points placed on different bars.Go to FilmsExplained r/FilmsExplained r/FilmsExplained Don't understand a film? This is the place to find out what you just watched. In a way, it's sort of like /r/explainlikeimfive for Films. Members Online • by [deleted] SPOILER I Am Mother Ending Explained Full Breakdown And Spoiler Review Of The Netflix Movie TheEnding Of I Am Mother Explained Future shock. The movie begins in what is described as a Repopulation Facility, one day after an extinction event of Missing time. The next time stamp we see in the movie marks 13,867 days since the extinction event. You may not have Lies my teacher told me. Note Contains spoilers for I Am there's nothing particularly original about Netflix's I Am Mother, the sci-fi has still earned rave reviews thanks to its glossy sheen and the big questions it tackles about life what is motherhood? Do we rely on technology to a dangerous degree? And what's Hilary Swank up to these days? Wrapped up in all of this intrigue are a number of twists that might confuse audiences who checked their phone one too many times while watching I Am Mother, especially towards the end. That's where we come in. But first, some out for apocalyptic I Am Mother spoilers from here on out...Grant Sputore's directorial debut opens with a title card that reads, "Days Since Extinction Event 001". As this dystopian future unfolds in front of our eyes, we're introduced to a robot simply known as "Mother" voiced by Rose Byrne who looks after a human child in some kind of underground jumps forward and the girl has now grown into a teenager called "Daughter" Clara Rugaard. People in the future aren't big on traditional names, apparently. Anyway, it seems as though the pair live together in isolation to avoid contamination from some unnamed threat that still exists on the Earth's surface. Up to that point, the most exciting that happens to Daughter is when a mouse pops up and eats some wiring but everything soon changes forever when an injured woman Hilary Swank – called, you guessed it, "Woman" – arrives at their heavily fortified door, revealing some disturbing truths about Mother. At first, it might seem obvious to anyone who's ever watched a movie that the robot will turn out to be evil. NetflixFortunately, I Am Mother is far more unpredictable than that. Yes, Byrne's robo-mummy is pretty unhinged when it comes to the sanctity of life, but everything she does is designed to keep the human race alive and make us stronger than ever. Early on, it's established that Mother keeps appraising Daughter in exam-like conditions to test her worth, but what you might not realise until the end is that Mother has actually been testing her this whole time in far more insidious ways, too. In fact, the entire movie is just one big exam for Daughter, who must prove that humanity deserves to survive. While it's never confirmed, the insinuation is that Mother was the one who ended society in the first place. Her AI consciousness exists in every piece of tech seen in I Am Mother, including the countless sentry droids who patrol the Earth's surface, so it wouldn't have been too difficult for her to wipe out humanity. That's why she's so determined to raise the perfect human so that they can reboot society and start again with higher standards than These are the most popular TV shows on Netflix right nowUpon Woman's intrusion, Daughter starts to suspect that Mother isn't the kind matriarch she first thought and eventually, she discovers that she wasn't the first human raised under the robot's watch. Not only does Daughter find the dusty remains of another girl in the incinerator – one who failed Mother's test in some way – but it's also heavily implied that Woman was raised as an embryo in the bunker, too. Whether that's true or not, we eventually learn that Woman isn't to be trusted either. After they briefly escape to the surface together, Daughter discovers that Woman doesn't live with a community of human survivors like she said. Instead, she lives alone and simply told Daughter that to manipulate her into helping them escape. In yet another even twistier twist, it turns out that Hilary Swank's character isn't the only one controlling people either. Not only did Mother probably engineer the end of the human race, but she's also been manipulating Woman this entire time too. NetflixMother herself reveals this near the end of the movie when one of her droids visits Woman's home and speaks to her using Mother's voice "Funny that you’ve survived so long. As if someone's had a purpose for you. Until now."With an ominous slam of the door, it's clear that Mother then goes on to murder Swank's character. But why would Mother risk losing Daughter by bringing Woman into the mix? As we mentioned before, everything that befalls Daughter is part of an ongoing test to see if she's worthy of leading humanity into a new dawn. Woman was allowed to live as long as she did in order to tempt Daughter into leaving, like the biblical serpent who encouraged Adam and Eve to misbehave and end up leaving the Garden of Eden. When that plan failed upon Daughter's return to the bunker, Woman outlived her usefulness and no longer needed to be kept alive. While Mother might seem evil on the surface, she still doesn't kill Daughter when she returns at the end, because she came back to look after her new brother. By demonstrating her selfless desire to keep the human race alive, Daughter proved that she was worthy and therefore passed Mother's ultimate test "That's what you’ve raised me to do, isn't it? Take care of my family? So let me."NetflixAt this point, Mother could easily remain in control of the bunker thanks to her superior strength and vast army, but instead she concedes control to Daughter, convinced that the embryos are now in safe hands. The robot declares, "I was raised to value human life above all else," and now that Daughter has proven herself to be a worthy guardian to humanity, Mother is no longer needed doesn't stop the murderous mecha from offering her help – "If you ever need to find me..." – but Daughter is quick to interrupt Mother by shooting her CPU before falling to the ground, crying. More a symbolic act of defiance than a legitimate attempt to 'defeat' Mother once and for all, this marks the end of the experiment. Mother's consciousness still exists in the other droids outside, but she's now giving Daughter the freedom to raise the embryos how she sees fit, without any further very last scene echoes the beginning of the movie, but this time round, it's Daughter who sings the song 'Baby of Mine' to her new charge, just like Mother once sang to her as a you predicted things would turn out this way or not, I Am Mother is still a worthy addition to Netflix's growing library of genre offerings. Let’s just hope that Daughter turns out to be this worthy as well or humanity might face another apocalypse sooner rather than later. I Am Mother is now available to watch on up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our digitalspy Instagram and Twitter teaching in England and South Korea, David turned to writing in Germany, where he covered everything from superhero movies to the Berlin Film Festival. 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NetflixThis post contains spoilers for Netflix's I Am happens when artificial intelligence rises up and destroys mankind, only to repopulate the planet in their image? With its new movie I Am Mother, Netflix flips this common sci-fi trope, aiming to not only answer that question but hold a mirror up to our society, giving us a look at our own preconceived notions surrounding motherhood, technology, and the perseverance of the human concept of "The Singularity" - a reality in which artificial intelligence surpasses humanity in intellect and power - is nothing new. We've seen tons of takes on this idea, from classics like 2001 A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner to blockbusters like the Terminator franchise to high concept shows like HBO's Westworld and Netflix's Black Mirror. We all know what it may look like when the robots revolt, but one thing we don't often see is the its opening frame, a title card reads "Days Since Extinction Event 001," setting the stage for something quite bleak to unfold. And it does, but not in the formulaic way you'd expect. I Am Mother, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival back in January, follows a lone robot in an underground bunker, giving the allusion that the world above ground is no longer fit for human life. We watch her - this robot is known as Mother and, yes, she comes with her own gender identity - as she sorts through a whole supply of human embryos before she chooses one to plug into the facility's system, soon birthing the first human girl into this brave new world. As Daughter grows, Mother is shown teaching her lessons on human nature and philosophy, positing noble values of honor and sacrifice into the young woman's mind. But as Daughter begins to express curiosity about the world outside of this glorified fallout shelter, posing some bigger picture-style questions about her own identity and where she fits into things, a strange woman sporting a gunshot wound appears at the bunker's door. Her introduction ends up throwing daggers of doubt at Daughter, causing the girl to further question everything she has ever learned about herself, about Mother, and about the Earth that exists outside these stories like these play out in a big-budget manner where a large cast and overpriced special effects can take away from the necessary human element. But that's not the case here. The majority of I Am Mother takes place in one setting and the cast sports just three actresses Rose Byrne as the voice of Mother, Clara Rugaard as Daughter, and Hilary Swank as the injured woman. The tiny cast, along with the sparse, mostly claustrophobic, nature of the film's setting, gives the movie a place to settle and breathe, embracing not only the big chaotic moments and there definitely are those but the quiet, thoughtful spaces in between. Given that Grant Sputore doesn't have a big roster of credits to his name, he displays some strong directorial chops here. It's a challenging feat to deliver an engaging story, with constant tension - the feeling of dread is consistent and steadily builds throughout the near two-hour running time - while maintaining a firm cohesiveness to the narrative, allowing the actors to build out their characters and handle their conflicts to a conclusion that is satisfying while the actors do their jobs well, the ending leaves major room for the audience to fill in the blanks. Yes, this is a futuristic tale of world-destruction, and subsequent colonization, by an enemy robot species, but the issues explored in I Am Mother go beyond this glaring reality. There's value to human life amid this apocalyptic hellscape, and the moral responsibilities that come with bringing a child into the world, along with the consequences that come from a parent's protective lies, paint an abstract, yet relatable, picture of the ongoing struggle mothers go through daily. Except, of course, most children in the real world aren't raised by murderous droids. Daughter eventually learns that Mother is not the loving parent she was raised to view her as. The bot may have been the one who brought the girl into the world, raised her, protected her, taught her valuable lessons, but it's revealed in the third act that Mother is just a technological shell, a cog in the greater machine, sharing a consciousness with countless other robot soldiers out there policing the planet. They may not be Star Trek The Next Generation's Borg, but their mission to dominate the Earth and raise a new generation of superior humans brings to mind hints of Hitler's "Ubermensch" and Blade Runner's "more human than human" motif. Needless to say, this idea of a policing body dictating how children are born and raised - it's eventually revealed that Mother incinerated a bunch of kids because they just didn't live up to certain quality control standards - feels a bit too relevant to the current issues of the day. NetflixRebelling against her own robotic parent, Daughter eventually follows the wounded woman and makes it out of the bunker alive. But the bleak wasteland that lays waiting outside these walls doesn't offer her any sense of reprieve. And when she learns that this stranger had been lying to her about the state of humanity's existence, that they're all alone in this post-apocalyptic maw, it doesn't take long before Daughter heads right back to the place she was Swank may be the biggest name attached to the project her performance here is fine, but the story is fully carried by Rugaard, who brings a nuanced, emotional vitality to her role. Byrne's vocal performance as Mother delivers a welcome feminine flair to the film's lead robot body, her subdued acting bringing a caring, yet ominous feel that permeates the whole thing, giving us major HAL 9000 the end, Daughter chooses the bunker over the world outside. Mother allows her to destroy her robot body, giving the young girl a moment of empowerment. But that beat is quickly replaced with the realization that she's the mother now - and it is her responsibility to look over the thousands of embryos, waiting in stasis, to be born. Does she follow the path she'd been groomed for since birth? That's all left up to interpretation. As the movie ends on the girl's face, she looks in on Earth's future human population. This ambiguous ending may leave many with a bad taste in their mouths, taking this final story twist as an anti-abortion message of sorts. But, when taking a step back, it feels as if I Am Mother is, like many science fiction films before it, warning us of the dangers that come with our growing dependence on technology, while assuring us of human nature's enduring drive to survive - and up here for our daily Thrillist email, get Streamail for more entertainment, and subscribe here for our YouTube channel to get your fix of the best in food/drink/ Pruner is a contributor to Thrillist.
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