Subservience – Movie Review
Director: S.K. Dale
Writer: Will Honley, April Maguire (Screenplay)
Cast
- Megan Fox (Till Death)
- Michele Morrone (365 Days)
- Madeline Zima (Bombshell)
- Matilda Firth (Disenchanted)
Plot: Follows a struggling father who purchases a domestic SIM to help care for his house and family, unaware she will gain awareness and turn deadly.
Runtime: 1 Hour 44 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Subservience starts when Nick (Morrone) turns to a domestic SIM to help around the home. his wife Maggie (Zima) has been recovering from surgery and it has become difficult to care for their children Isla (Firth) and Max. Nick recruits Alice (Fox) for household help and she connects with Isla.
As Nick gets used to having Alice around, she starts getting close to him and Maggie’s recovery starts changing the family dynamic. However, the more the A.I. gets involved in their lives, the more the humans start feeling out of place in the world.
Verdict on Subservience
Subservience is a sci-fi horror story about a family that gets a SIM to help around the house. However, she gets close to the family and starts showing a darker side to what they want from the family.
This movie takes what made MEGAN a standout and tries to do something different with it. It makes things more interfering in a marriage and the potential rise in technology in everyday life. There is a big discussion about how far humans should go with technology replacing the workforce and how ever-growing intelligence can become dangerous. Megan Fox works well as an android and brings blank reactions to what is happening. This might not bring too much new to the table, but it gets the disturbing side of androids in everyday life out.
Where to Watch
Subservience will be available EST from 13th September and TVOD from 20th September.
Final Thoughts – Subservience brings to life the disturbing potential of androids in the world.
