I am mother
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | I am mother |
| Original title | I am mother |
| Country of production | Australia , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Grant Sputore |
| script | Michael Lloyd Green |
| production |
Timothy White , Kelvin Munro |
| music |
Dan Luscombe , Antony Partos |
| camera | Steve Annis |
| cut | Sean Lahiff |
| occupation | |
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I Am Mother is an American-Australian science fiction - Thriller by Grant Sputore , who in January 2019 as part of the Sundance Film Festival made its debut and was released in Germany on 22 August of 2019.
action
After humanity has died out on earth, a robot takes one of the more than 60,000 human embryos in a protected repopulation facility that is supposed to preserve humanity, places it in an incubator and raises the child, which is mature 24 hours later, as if it were its mother. The girl believes that the outside world is uninhabitable, so she stays inside the facility. There it develops into a happy, intelligent teenager. It practices ballet, watches old videos from The Tonight Show , undergoes rigorous training, and learns everything from anatomy to philosophy. The extensive facility was designed by humans "before the wars" to repopulate the earth in the event of global extinction. The girl can only move around the facility unsupervised at night when “mother” has to recharge for several hours.
One day on one of his tours in the airlock that separates it from the outside world, a mouse found it, which got inside after a disturbance in the power grid of the complex. But the uninvited guest is immediately killed by the "mother". One night a slightly disturbed woman appears in front of the airlock and asks to be admitted; however, it is not that easy to dispose of. Humanity and compassion begin to gain importance in the girl's life as she tries to take in and nurse her back to health. The wounded stranger claims that she belongs to a small community of survivors who would hide in a mine. She was shot by one of the droids that watch over the barren world beyond the walls of the bunker.
The “daughter” doesn't know whether her “mother” or the woman is telling the truth. When she realizes that both of them are not being honest, she takes bold steps to ensure the survival of her species.
production
Directed by Grant Sputore . The script was written by Michael Lloyd Green .
The robot "Mother" is portrayed by New Zealander Luke Hawker using a suit (developed by Weta Workshop ), with the voice in the original language from Rose Byrne . The unnamed "daughter" is played by the young actress Clara Rugaard . Hilary Swank took on the role of the also nameless woman from the outside world.
The shooting took place in the Australian Adelaide Studios. Steve Annis acted as cameraman . The film set was built by the New Zealand effects and prop company Weta Workshop . Production designer Hugh Bateup was responsible for the equipment, primarily the high-tech system .
The score was composed by Dan Luscombe and Antony Partos .
The film was shown for the first time in January 2019 as part of the Sundance Film Festival . In the US and a number of other countries, the film was released on June 7, 2019 via Netflix. It was released in German and Austrian cinemas on August 22, 2019. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray at the end of December 2019.
The synchronization was done by Neue Tonfilm München . The dialogue direction came from Hilke Flickenschildt . She also wrote the dialogue book. Lena Schmidtke lends her voice to the daughter in the German version, Laura Maire speaks mother, Sandra Schwittau the visitor.
reception
Age rating
In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 12. The reason for the release states that the chamber play-like film is rather calmly staged over long stretches and deals with moral and ethical questions about artificial intelligence and the continued existence of humanity. Towards the end there were several threatening situations and violent disputes between man and machine, but these were conclusively integrated into the dramaturgy and were within a framework that did not overwhelm young people from the age of 12. The unrealistic location and the cool staging also made it easier for viewers aged 12 and over to distance themselves emotionally, so on in the explanation.
Reviews
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The film has so far convinced 90 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 7 out of a possible 10 points.
SlashFilm's Ben Pearson says the visual effects are extraordinarily impressive and the fact that this is Grant Sputore's first feature film makes him look forward to what he does next. Pearson calls I Am Mother a new science fiction classic that is thought-provoking and unforgettable. Although the film is based on a well-known premise, it is brought to perfection, which is thanks to Sputore's work and the fantastic screenplay, but also the screen presence of Danish actress Clara Rugaard , a strong supporting role by Hilary Swank and a brilliantly realized new one Robot that instantly cemented its status in the pantheon of classic genre creations, Pearson said. The mother figure is a triumph of design, an efficient unit on two legs with a slim, anthropomorphized face that “smiles” when the appropriate lights go on.
Peter Osteried from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater writes that I am Mother is intelligent science fiction that deals with well-known and familiar genre topoi, but is far beyond action strips á la Terminator , but rather in the tradition of literary genre- Fabrics like moon . All in all, the story is rounded from beginning to end and the film is also technically flawless: “The limited world of this technologically advanced facility is impressively spacious and convincingly designed.” Mother also appears like a real being, and here it succeeds, at the same time a caring one , as well as creating a threatening appearance, depending on how the perspective of the main character changes, Osteried continues. The film critic also notes that I am Mother is playing with the idea of Isaac Asimov's Zeroth Law , the three laws of robotics , which boil down to the fact that a robot must not injure a person or, through inaction, allow it to be injured, even if itself these no longer relate to humans as a single concrete individual, but to the species as a whole.
The film critic Antje Wessels notices the very reduced setting, which consists only of laboratory-like rooms and sparse corridors, and in which the excellently animated mother in particular moves so quietly that you never know whether she is really gone, or maybe around the next corner lurks. Regarding the dramaturgy of the film, Wessels remarks: “The further I Am Mother goes , the more the science fiction drama becomes a counting rhyme ; not with sacrifices, but with possible twists. If one doesn't happen, only the other can happen; the characters don't go this way, they can only go that way. Only the question of who will be left to the end provides the film with enough nourishment right up to the end so that it does not run out of breath. ”The film critic sums up, against the clumsy foreshadowing and the attempted , philosophical superstructure that the smallest Doubt would collapse, neither the production nor the great actresses would arrive.
Awards
- Nomination in the Feature Film Competition
- Nomination for Best Visual Effects or Animation (Jonathan Dearing, Chris Spry)
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Hilary Swank)
Web links
- I Am Mother in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- I Am Mother in the program of the Sundance Film Festival (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for I Am Mother . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 189910 / K).
- ↑ I Am Mother: A Robot as a Mother Replacement? In: Stern , August 21, 2019.
- ↑ a b David Rooney: 'I Am Mother': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter , January 26, 2019.
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com , accessed on August 22, 2019.
- ↑ August 2019. In: skip.at , accessed on May 27, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18528971.html
- ↑ Reasons for the release of I Am Mother . In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ↑ I Am Mother. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Accessed June 21, 2019. Note: The Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes shows what percentage of the registered critics gave the film a positive rating.
- ↑ Ben Pearson: I Am Mother Review: Meet an Unforgettable Sci-Fi Robot. In: slashfilm.com, January 26, 2019.
- ↑ Peter Osteried: I am Mother. In: programmkino.de. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
- ↑ Antje Wessels: I Am Mother. In: wessels-filmkritik.com. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
- ↑ Feature Films In Competition for the 2019 AACTA Awards presented by Foxtel. In: aacta.org. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/