I Am Mother Movie Review

Hello friends! Welcome to my first-ever movie review post! I am excited to finally get into this part of my blog as well, when I was designing this blog, I instantly put up a place for both movies and music yet I never had a chance to write something for them. Recently I watched I Am Mother by Grant Sputore and I loved the dark dystopian vibes of it so I thought it would be a great start for my movie reviews! I have never written a movie review before so I am not sure how to bring my thoughts together, and I am no critic nor do I have knowledge enough to criticise a movie, a cinematic piece. My husband is a better fit for this role lol. Nevertheless, I will do my best to explain how I felt throughout the movie and what I saw in the movie regarding the theme, ideology and so on. Let’s get into the review, shall we? 🌸

The movie takes place in a future we all despise. World is now uninhabitable for humans and though the reason for it is pretty unclear throughout the movie, but it eventually underlined that humans kept being humans and brought the world to the point where it cannot be lived. We see an AI, referred to as the Mother whose job is to repopulate the earth with embryos left by humans. We watch the little girl growing up day by day and one day, she comes across another human being. This encounter is against everything the Mother told her and she finds herself torn to find the truth.

The movie was nothing original for us readers. We did watch and read a lot of dystopian scenarios including an AI, including a world that is destructed and lost. What good was in this movie was the themes behind it.

The first thing that caught my attention was the “nature” of humans. We are weak creatures prone to twist the truth in order to get what we want. Like the world’s end, we do everything to work things in our favour and while the Mother was supposed to be the villain of the story, I kept asking myself: who is the real villain? Humans who destroyed their own homes, the precious planet they live in or the AI system that has the quest of repopulating the heart and saving humankind. Of course, we cannot expect a man-made robotic system for ethics but the tests mentioned in the movie also showed a great aspect of ethical issues in the modern world as well.

The Mother often tells the Daughter that the tests she is taking actually monitoring the AI, not the human. The scene with the “doctor” question was particularly amazing. Again, many questions rose in my mind. Is it okay to save the worst of people too? Are all human lives equal? How do we distinguish between a good human and a bad human? The underlying questions for the viewer were amazing throughout the movie. Though it looks like a basic sci-fi movie, when you put some thought into it, it makes a lot of human issues more visible. Throughout time, humans did nothing but destruction while evolving and doing good only for themselves.

Also, the issue of the other human is very touching too. The fact that the Daughter’s only hope shattered into millions of pieces and eventually accepted her fate about the world and reality of Mother as everything reached the climax was great. As for the visuals, the portrayal of the Earth was amazing, thrilling scenes were unnecessarily long to my liking but I understand that they are needed since the movie had such heavy ideas and it would slow the movie down if everything ended up being philosophically silent for a long while. Overall, it was a good movie and I enjoyed the ideas behind it. It didn’t blow my mind or shocked me in the end but I enjoyed watching it with a glass of strawberry cocktail. I’d give it 6.5/10⭐s! If you have time and want to enjoy some thrilling yet short movie dystopian/sci-fi, you will most likely enjoy I Am Mother!