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00:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you a sci-fi, drama, mystery film from 2019,
00:06titled I Am Mother. Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care.
00:10In a repopulation facility, one day after the event that caused humanity's extinction,
00:15there are 63,000 embryos and no human occupants yet. The mother robot, whose main mission is to
00:20raise the new human population, is getting ready to raise the first human being after the event.
00:25She opens the canisters containing the embryos, takes out the first one, and places it in a
00:30gestation chamber. The embryo will gestate into a baby in just 24 hours within the artificial womb.
00:35Mother waits patiently, as bombs are heard outside of the facility. Once the fetus has developed into
00:40a baby, Mother can begin raising the child into a human. The next sequence of the film shows the
00:45full developmental stage of the child. Baby is seen taking its first steps, laughing and crying,
00:50running around and playing, all under the watchful eye of Mother. Baby turns little girl in no time
00:56and can be seen making origami animals with Mother, dancing ballet, and putting stickers on the robot.
01:01One day, the child asks Mother why there aren't any more children there and Mother takes her to the
01:05embryo room to show her the rest of her siblings. 13,867 days after the event, the repopulation facility
01:12now has one occupant. Daughter is already a teenager. She wakes and watches some videos on her tablet
01:18while having breakfast. Mother comes in and her hand starts to glitch so Daughter insists to take
01:23a look at it. Daughter fixes Mother's glitching hand without a problem. Later, Daughter gets a
01:28little carried away in her ballet practice and is late for her ethics class with Mother.
01:32The robot asks her to solve a difficult hypothetical situation, but the girl is distracted by her
01:36thoughts. When she eventually has a discussion with Mother on the subject, it becomes apparent that
01:41Mother's main focus in her education is the concept of humanity and survival. Mother is worried about
01:46the way she answers this particular question because Daughter has an important exam coming
01:50up soon that would reveal the efficacy of her upbringing. That night, Daughter has some difficulty
01:55sleeping so she watches some videos until there's a power outage in the facility. She goes looking
02:00for Mother, but soon realizes that she's out of power too. Then, Daughter finds a broken power line
02:05and hears a mouse running around. She sets a trap and manages to fix the problem with the power.
02:10While she waits for the power to fully come back, Daughter catches the mouse. As soon as the power
02:15comes on so does Mother. She finds Daughter and the girl shows her the mouse. The little
02:19critter worries Mother because it might mean that there is a breach in the airlock of the facility.
02:23That would mean the contagion from the air outside might leak inside and the mouse might be a carrier
02:28too. Despite Daughter's protest, Mother incinerates the mouse, explaining how dangerous contamination
02:33of the facility might be, not just to her, but the embryos as well. Mother also decontaminates the
02:39airlock and quarantines the area. A few days later, they celebrate Daughter's birthday and Mother gives her a gift.
02:45During Daughter's birthday dinner, she asks Mother if there is a possibility that she is wrong about
02:49the habitability of the planet. The robot simply reminds her that she hasn't been wrong about
02:53anything so far. The same night, Daughter hears something coming from the direction of the airlock.
02:59She goes to check and when she doesn't see anything through the first hatch, Daughter puts
03:02on a protective suit. She hears something outside again and, despite her better judgment,
03:07takes off the mask and opens the first hatch. Daughter gets close to the other hatch when she hears a
03:11woman screaming for help, saying she's been shot. Daughter quickly gets another suit, places it in
03:16the airlock and when she's safely out, she opens it. Suddenly, an alarm goes off, waking Mother as
03:22well. The woman enters the airlock and Daughter tells her to put on the suit, then the woman begs
03:26her not to tell Mother. Daughter agrees and when the robot arrives she says that she opened the hatch for
03:31just a second. Mother scolds her and, as a form of punishment, decides to give her the important exam at
03:36that instant. In the next shot, both are at the classroom and Mother is giving Daughter the exam,
03:41with an hour to complete it, while she tends to other things. As soon as Mother leaves, Daughter
03:45goes back to the airlock, finding the woman unconscious. She shuffles through her bag,
03:50finds a gun which she tucks away, and wakes her up. Daughter tells her that she'll give her all the
03:54medicine she needs, but that they can't stay there. The woman sees the water and goes to take off her
03:59mask, telling Daughter that she's been lied to about the contagion. Daughter manages to hide her away in
04:04another part of the facility, before Mother returns to the airlock, and leaves the woman there to get
04:08the medicine. While she puts everything that she needs from the infirmary together, Mother finds the
04:13mask near the airlock. Daughter breaks one of the medicine bottles and cuts herself on it when she
04:17hears Mother passing by. The woman takes out the rest of the suit and sees Mother burning the mask in
04:22the incinerator, freaking out and searching for her gun. When Daughter comes back, the woman sneaks up on
04:27her and asks for her gun, telling her about the droid she saw. Daughter says that it's Mother, but the woman
04:33tells her that droids like her mother were the ones to hurt her. Meanwhile, Mother notices that Daughter
04:37isn't taking her exam and comes looking for her. The woman hears her coming, grabs the gun and when
04:42Daughter screams for the robot, she grabs her too. Mother sprints toward them and as soon as she enters
04:47the room, the woman shoots her. Before she can do any serious damage, however, Mother gets to her and
04:52incapacitates her instantly. Daughter begs her not to kill the woman and tells her that she needs their
04:57help because she's hurt. Mother doesn't have a problem helping the woman, but she does have a problem with
05:01Daughter lying to her. They take her to the infirmary, but Mother makes Daughter wait outside.
05:06Because Daughter can't hear anything from the infirmary, Mother is free to interrogate the woman
05:10freely while she treats her. The woman refuses the penicillin for her wound, as Mother keeps
05:15conversing. She says the contagion story was a necessary lie to guard Daughter against certain
05:20things. Mother tells the woman that her primary objective is to take care of humanity, but if she
05:24refuses treatment for her wound, Mother can't do anything to make her take it. She leaves the infirmary
05:29with Daughter running after her and asking about their conversation. Mother puts the gun away and
05:34explains her version of the story about the droids. She tells Daughter why she needed to lie to her to
05:38protect her from the dangers outside of the facility. Furthermore, she says that the parameters that
05:43govern her are different than those of the droids outside. Daughter has a hard time processing the new
05:48information, but still believes Mother who tells her that if the woman would have shot her a few
05:52millimeters further, she would have destroyed her CPU. As Mother tends to Daughter's hand wound, she asks her if
05:57the woman mentioned any other survivors which they can help as well with her cooperation. Daughter thinks
06:02that the woman might listen to her more than she would Mother. Later, she goes through her bag, and
06:07among a bunch of trinkets, she finds a book with portraits drawn in it. Daughter flips through the
06:11portrait book and finds one particularly interesting. She goes to the infirmary to talk to the woman and
06:16asks her about the people. The woman's suspicion of Mother can be felt in her conversation with Daughter
06:21too, thinking that it told her to go through her stuff and question her. She's not wrong, Mother did
06:25manipulate the girl into doing that actually, Daughter was just curious about the woman to be
06:29susceptible to that manipulation. Daughter, stands her ground defending Mother, when the woman tells
06:34her about all the horrible things that the droids have done. After the talk with the woman, Daughter
06:38finds Mother repairing herself. She apologizes to her for letting the woman in without thinking of
06:43the consequences. As always, Mother is full of understanding and allows her to ask all the
06:48questions about the similarities between her and the other droids. Daughter's questions feel like jabs,
06:53but Mother still dodges all of them and manages to learn a few things from Daughter in return.
06:58Lastly, Daughter tells Mother that the woman is getting worse. They both go to see her and Mother
07:02tells the woman that she waited too long to take the penicillin, so now she would need to get surgery,
07:06or otherwise, her infection will get worse. The woman refuses to let Mother touch her and Daughter
07:11volunteers to perform the surgery instead. Next, Daughter can be seen checking the wound and telling
07:17Mother where the bullet is lodged in the woman's body. She thinks that the best way to pull the bullet
07:21out would be to drill in it and take it out that way. However, the woman refuses anesthesia which
07:26would make it insanely painful for her. She can barely even make it through Daughter cleaning her
07:30wound. The woman turns her head as Daughter goes in with the drill subsequently, calmly performing the
07:35procedure and taking out the bullet. After that, she loses her nerve and vomits. Later, Daughter waits
07:41for the woman to wake up because she passed out from the pain. When she does, Daughter explains that
07:46her for is a saline solution and calms her a little. She gives the woman some food which she
07:50practically devours, and then thanks to the girl for what she did for her. They continue to talk and
07:55bond, as Mother observes them from afar. The next day, Daughter is still in the infirmary next to the
08:00woman. The woman is looking through the portraits and Daughter sees it as an opportunity to tell her
08:04that they can house the survivors in the facility if she shares with them where they are. She trusts the
08:09girl, but not the droid, and tells her that whatever she shares about the people, Daughter must keep a
08:14secret. When the girl agrees, the woman tells her about the camp in the mines where she spent most
08:18of her life. Then she tells her that she got to the facility escaping from the droids that killed
08:23her stepbrother. She shows Daughter his and his wife's portraits in her book and tells her that his
08:27parents raised her as their own when she was orphaned. Daughter asks about the portrait of the
08:31boy she saw before and the woman tells her that he's about her age. The girl keeps insisting that they
08:36should bring the survivors there, but the woman gives her the alternative to join her and the others in
08:40the mines where it's safer. Mother interrupts their conversation and tells Daughter that the
08:44woman needs to rest while she needs to do her exam. As the two of them leave the infirmary,
08:49Mother tells her that the bullet fired in her chest matches the one Daughter extracted from the
08:53woman's wound. Droids don't use the same type of gun, so Mother implies that another human might have
08:58shot the woman, possibly with good reason. Daughter is worried by that information but still doesn't
09:02share the woman's secret. The important exam that Daughter takes is constructed around psychological
09:07and ethical questions, checking her judgment and empathy levels alike. Meanwhile, Mother goes through
09:12the woman's things and activates a locator that she will return in the bag. The two last aspects of
09:17the exam are the physical and medical. Once complete, Mother tells Daughter that her results are better
09:22than ever. As a reward she lets her pick an embryo from the lot and finally have a sibling as she has
09:27always wanted. Mother commends her for being patient over the years and demonstrating great character.
09:32Daughter chooses a male embryo and puts it in the gestation chamber, which sets the timer for 24 hours
09:37until the baby is fully formed. Mother and Daughter have a nice moment together. The woman makes a
09:42weapon when Daughter comes to the infirmary to confront her. The woman instantly makes her doubt
09:46Mother's story about the bullet, convincing her to check for herself. So, later that night, Daughter takes
09:52Mother's broken hand and uses it to open the cabinets where the bullets are kept. Making the side-by-side
09:57comparison, Daughter notices that the bullets are of completely different size and that Mother lied to
10:01her. While still in the storage room, she finds a drawer with no label on it. Inside, she finds
10:07documents labeled for embryo number two. Daughter checks the embryo containers and realizes that she
10:12wasn't the first, but the third child that came out of that lot. The documents state that the subject
10:17was a failure, but the child in the photo looks like Daughter when she was younger. Daughter also
10:21checks the incinerator for human remains and finds a human jaw bone between the ash. The document has
10:27the subject is aborted. All of this information breaks Daughter's world apart and she goes to talk
10:31to the woman again, admitting that she was right about everything. The woman tells Daughter that
10:36everything she feels is natural and human, unlike Mother who feels nothing for her because she can.
10:41That prompts Daughter to ask how long it would take them to get to the mines, for she has made up
10:44her mind that she will go with her there. However, the girl wants to wait for her brother to gestate
10:49fully so she can take him as well. She's not afraid only about leaving him with Mother, but the others as
10:54well. The woman tells her that they can leave and get help from the people of the mines, though Daughter
10:59is adamant about taking her brother with her. They will wait for him, then come back for the others
11:03later. The next day, Daughter packs the supplies for their journey when Mother catches her doing it.
11:08She lies to her that she's taking the stuff to spend some time with her brother, so Mother takes
11:12her to the kitchen to show her how to mix his formula. Daughter gets anxious standing next to Mother,
11:17who comforts her by saying that she will make a great sister. Then, she exits the kitchen and locks Daughter
11:22in because she knows what she's planning. Mother goes to the infirmary to confront the woman while Daughter
11:27tries to get herself out of the kitchen. The girl quickly figures out to use a type of gas to freeze the
11:32glass and then break it. In the meantime, Mother plays a recording of the woman's conversation with Daughter,
11:37letting her know that she's aware of their plan. Mother doesn't want Daughter to have a miserable life
11:41like the woman and won't let her go. Suddenly, the woman sees an opportunity to attack her and manages to
11:46incapacitate the droid for a moment, but she just keeps on going, grabbing her by the throat.
11:51Meanwhile, Daughter thinks to activate the fire alarm, which draws Mother's attention and she
11:55releases the woman from her grip. As the droid goes to investigate the possibility of a fire,
12:00the woman escapes and finds Daughter in the maze of the facility. She convinces the girl that they
12:04will come back for the others if they escape the facility now and get the people from the mine to help
12:08them. They get to the airlock, but Mother finds them there fast. When she sees her approaching,
12:13the woman grabs Daughter as a hostage to make Mother open the door. With no intention of getting Daughter
12:19hurt, Mother complies with her demand, and the two of them escape the facility finally. Suddenly,
12:24Daughter is confronted with the realities of life outside and attacks the woman.
12:28She subdues her and tells Daughter that they need to find cover. As they walk toward their destination
12:32they immediately get tracked down by the droids, though they hide in the cornfield to stop them from
12:37following. Daughter asks the woman about the cornfield and she tells her that it showed up with the
12:41other droids six months prior. Before that, humans could hardly breathe the air. After a long journey
12:46through the desolate landscape, they arrive on a beach with a massive shipwreck and tons of cargo
12:50containers. It's Daughter's first time seeing the ocean. She doesn't take long to understand that
12:55the woman actually lives in one of the containers with a dog. The woman confesses that she fled the
13:00mines years before because the people that lived there began treating each other terribly when the
13:04hunger struck. She tells Daughter that there is no hope in finding them because they've all gone mad.
13:08Daughter gets struck by the doom of the woman's life outside and feels terrible for leaving her
13:13brother behind. Even with the woman doing her best to convince her to stay, Daughter eventually leaves
13:18her behind and goes back to the facility by herself. When she arrives before the facility, the droids
13:23guarding and aim their weapons directly in her heart. However, when Daughter demands to speak to Mother,
13:28they let her pass without a problem. The door opens for her to enter and she immediately disables it,
13:33to stop the droids from coming inside. Daughter grabs an axe and starts looking for Mother,
13:37when she hears E brother crying and Mother telling her that she's glad for having her safe at home.
13:42When the girl peeks at Mother and the child she decides that she wants to see him up close.
13:46Mother tells her to come closer but leave the axe behind. As Mother explains her purpose and the
13:51purpose of the facility, Daughter keeps dropping her guard. The droid tells her that her objective
13:55was to make a better human, superior to the ones that destroyed the planet as well as themselves.
14:00Even though she was the one to ultimately create the extinction event, Mother did it all to elevate her
14:04human creators to a higher level. E daughter asked to hold her brother and approaches Mother,
14:09then finally drops the axe, as if she's made her decision about what needs to be done for the
14:13future. Mother calls imperfect and Daughter confronts her about the way she handled the
14:17other children before her. The droid tells her that she's holding the baby too tight and walks toward
14:22her when Daughter flees the room trapping Mother with the door. She goes into the other room and gets
14:26the gun, as the other droids begin breaking down the airlock. Mother tries to free herself from the
14:31door as well, when Daughter shows up in front of her with the gun, telling her to call the others
14:35off. The droid explains that there is no difference between her and the other droids and machines on the
14:40planet. They are all Mother, a single consciousness with numerous bodies. Daughter lowers her gun,
14:46realizing that Mother did kill all the other people. Mother gives her the option to either stay with
14:50her and raise her brother or leave the facility without him. Daughter gives her the third alternative,
14:55which is for her to take care of him herself, to do what she was raised to do. Daughter asks Mother
14:59for a chance to show her what she is capable of and the droids stop breaking down the airlock.
15:04Mother tells Daughter how to disable her as she shoots her CPU, after saying that she won't need
15:08her anymore. Daughter breaks down and cries, carrying the whole of humanity on her back.
15:14Simultaneously, the woman finds the tracker in her bag, and Mother shows up at her home in the body
15:18of one of her droids. She tells the woman that she has fulfilled her purpose, implying that she was
15:22one of the babies born before Daughter. In the last moment of the film, Daughter is seen singing to
15:27her brother and then checking on the rest of her siblings in the embryo room.
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