(ESP-ENG) Subservience - Movie Review! [Spooky Season]
Hello friends, good vibes to all.
The blessed AI's are everywhere, series and movies are being released and mass produced being them the center of the plots, could it be that they are not wanting to say or warn of what could come or is it just a publicity boom and that's it? Personally I do believe that this is the future, not a near one but a few years from now, AIs today are becoming more and more advanced, an example of this is ChatGPT, the more you use it the more it learns and adapts. Well, this movie is almost the same but being a couple of steps above in terms of technological advancement. What we see here is the potential danger of having something of this magnitude in our homes.
This story begins with a happy marriage between Maggie (Madeline Zima) and Nick (Michele Morrone), parents of two children who live a typical family life. One day Maggie suffers a health mishap and is confined to a hospital, which forces Nick to hire a kind of nanny - housekeeper to help him with his household chores. This nanny, whom the daughter names Alice (Megan Fox), is a state-of-the-art AI that perfectly simulates what it's like to be a human. In theory she should have certain limits and obviously being a robot she is not capable of feeling any kind of emotions but as expected this is about to change.
I think everyone's fear regarding AIs is that precisely what ends up happening in this film will happen: that they will become autonomous and gain consciousness-emotions. Alice, as she lives with this family, little by little seems to develop a kind of affection for the fact of belonging and having a family of her own, which will quickly distort her reality. Everything she sees that poses a danger to her environment, she will try to eliminate it no matter who it is. The film gradually shows us this evolution until it reaches the climax of the story, which is when Alice becomes “something” completely independent and outside of her script and reason for being.
Honestly when I started watching the movie I knew what I was getting into, just another plot like the thousands there are where AIs rebel and start causing chaos. There is nothing different from what you have ever seen, so the surprise factor does not exist, from the very beginning we already know what will be the development of this story. I think what is relevant in this film is to show us a possible future where these AIs, which here are called “SIMS”, will be an important part of people's daily lives to the point that they will be in all jobs and this, obviously, will cause indignation and resentment in people.
This could be classified as a somewhat psychological thriller because it doesn't have much in the way of horror and less in the way of suspense. Maybe there is a little tension at times when there are some chases or misunderstandings between Alice and her environment but it doesn't go beyond that. The violence is not very strong, a couple of blows and one or two shots is what we will see. As I said, what really catches our attention is how far these machines are capable of going, it is that expectation that is generated about what the next step will be in order to keep her environment stable and how she sees it as perfect and ideal.
I feel that the performances were totally neutral. Megan Fox doesn't do bad but it's not something to highlight much either. I understand that playing a robot can be complicated but since the premise of the movie is that these AI's are very similar to humans you don't get to see that difference and the acting work goes under the table. The rest of the cast has nothing to say. The movie is anything, curiosity was what led me to see it, I think it will always be interesting to see things related to AIs no matter how cliché they are in the movie scene; the thing is that these productions are minimally of quality.
This review is meant to alert those who want to see this film that it is more of the same. The plot is weak, there are things in the script that are inexplicable but I think that for those days when boredom is more powerful than anything it is a viable option. It lasts less than two hours. I give it a 5/10. It could have been better but also much worse, I think they managed to save something at the end. I leave the trailer here.
¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!
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Gracias por tu alerta. Entiendo tu postura sobre el tema. Al igual que tú, pienso que se avizora u futuro incierto con el punto de IA. Pareciera que nos advierten las intenciones del hombre y su empeño de desobedecer la ley natural del universo. Saludos.
Es un tema complejo. Ahorita puede que lo veamos lejano o muy difícil que esas cosas pasen y todo sea ficción pero creo que la posibilidad, aunque sea remota, existe.
La película lo muestra un poco.
Saludos!