Rose Byrne has a very soothing voice, and caring for a baby with not just nutrition and shelter, but bedside stories and time for play makes the robot seem implicitly compassionate. Mother doesn't come to life out of some automated altruism. She's a madwoman of a machine - Skynet meets the Matrix meets a metal Mommie Dearest, executing a single-minded plan to remake the human race to suit her own needs and twisted logic.Īll of this is on display at the start of the movie you're just not inclined to notice at first.
She's not a failsafe in the case of extinction - she's the cause of it, and Mother is but one of her many faces.
It's an interesting scene to go back to once you've seen the movie, and you realize that this robot and the extinction event have a whole lot in common with each other. In a largely wordless opening sequence, the robotic Mother comes to life, seemingly ready to begin the hard task of repopulating the world. Let's examine the finer details of the bittersweet ending of I Am Mother. What's the true nature of this frightening future world? What drove a seemingly benevolent robot to raise a human child as her own, and what was the meaning of where it all led? If you were too stunned by the spectacle to catch every detail of the movie's denouement, it's hard to blame you.
Netflix's new sci-fi movie I Am Mother, the first feature from Australian director Grant Sputore, is a stripped-down story about trust, faith, and an intimidating WETA-designed robot with a sweetheart's voice and, just maybe, the parental instincts of your average Terminator.įollowing a limited cast that includes Clara Rugaard, Hillary Swank, and the voice of Rose Byrne (recording her lines over an ace physical performance by actor, stuntman, and SFX designer Luke Hawker), I Am Mother is a story of shifting allegiances and slow reveals, layering on the twists at an even clip until it's hard to know what to believe anymore.
Moms can be tough - but the apocalypse can be tougher.
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