If you're thinking Netflix's latest dystopian flick, Mother/Android is just another typical run of the mill end of the world movie, then you are both correct and wrong at the same time. Yes, it does involve a lot of running from the bad guys, in this case, those darn androids, which makes it your average man-running-away-from-machines-gone-wrong apocalyptic movie. But at the same time the journey of the protagonists and that gut wrenching ending was just too much for some of youse softies. I do like how they gave us a sad ending as opposed to the many predictable happy endings in movies nowadays. I'll get to that later.
Far from the days of Diary of A Wimpy Kid or the Kick Ass movie franchise, Chloe Grace Moretz gave a great performance of an expecting mother carrying her child through a journey filled with man-killing androids. Presumably the whole had collapsed when robot butlers everywhere decided to turn against their masters but you hear that Korea (North or South? I don't know...probably Seoul had been mentioned but I could be wrong) is still a safe free from robot haven where you can get a job a live a normal life. So the protagonists spent most of the the film hours trying to make their way to Boston where the military is apparently sending mothers and their child to Korea via sea.
When Moretz's character safely delivered her baby son a the supposedly fortified military base in Boston, it made many hope and expect that both father and mother will eventually make it through to the promised land with their child but it wasn't just so. The way mother and child were forced to separate eventually dash everyone's hope that all will turn out well in the end.
Take a gander at what the internet had to say...well, some of them at least.
Darn it Netflix. We need more of these films. I'm somehow drawn to such endings. Don't judge me, I'm just tired of stereotype movie endings.
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