'I Am Mother' ending explained some viewers of the Netflix film were left scratching their head after watching the film and its "twist" Jun. 11 2019, Updated 436 ETSource netflixIf you need the I Am Mother ending explained to you, then you're not alone. There are tons of viewers who watched Netflix's sci-fi flick and wondered just what the heck happened once the credits started quick warning going into this post, if you haven't seen the film, then just know that there are ginormous spoilers lurking ahead, so if you're not cool with that, you might not want to continue continues below advertisementFirst, what is I Am Mother about?The film starts off as a post-apocalyptic movie where audiences are introduced to Mother, a robot that was created solely to help repopulate Earth with human beings using embryos. Mother is also in charge of raising someone named Daughter played by Clara Rugaard all alone in a remote wrench gets thrown in the film's plot about girl-and-robot when a woman shows up, played by Hilary Swank, and starts telling Daughter that Mother has lied to her, especially about the way the world has who's responsible for the end of the world? Well, if you've seen The Terminator or The Matrix or Moon then you probably know where this is going...Article continues below advertisementSource netflixWhat does the ending of I Am Mother mean?It's quite clear by the end of the film that Mother is responsible for the destruction of humanity. An artificial intelligence system — similar to the one that Tesla founder Elon Musk is afraid of — has decided that the best thing for all of humankind would be to give us a "reset." Wiping us all out and raising us the right way, from continues below advertisementAs it turns out, Daughter is an experiment in this process, the third, actually. Remember those bones in the incinerator? Yeah, those were remains from the first two "Daughters" that Mother deemed weren't good enough to cut the mustard. Or at least, that's what we're lead to believe is in the netflixArticle continues below advertisementBut there is a major I Am Mother twist. As it turns out, the Woman Hilary was actually the first Daughter experiment. She tells the current Daughter that she was raised by a human family that adopted her and lived in tunnels following the apocalypse, but that they were killed by droids. This isn't the case though, and audiences discover this when a droid follows her home and corners her in her house a shipping searching through her bag, Woman finds a tracking device that was placed there by Mother. The Droid asks Woman a simple question that blows open her whole backstory why doesn't she ever remember her "birth parents?" Why was she able to survive this long while everyone else she knew around her had died or was killed? Had she even thought about what her "purpose" was?After melting Woman's mind, Mother then has the shipping container closed, with the implication that Woman is going to get continues below advertisementSource netflixWhy was Hilary Swank's character, Woman, left alive?It was all part of Mother's experiment. Woman was deemed to be a failure because she continually lied to save herself and made choices that harmed others in order to guarantee her own neck would be saved. She opts to live in the Wasteland herself instead of staying behind with continues below advertisementDaughter, on the other hand was selfless, nurturing, and kind. She even elects to stay behind in the bunker to help raise the human that Mother creates, Brother. Mother's recognized this as an indication that Daughter was indeed the "perfect" human being and "worthy" of raising Brother all by herself. Which is why she allows Daughter to raise Brother without the Mother to guide death was a consequence of Mother's plan coming together she was no longer needed because Daughter Clara was a netflixArticle continues below advertisementWait, what happened to the dog in I Am Mother?One of the more seemingly random parts of the film have to do with a cute dog that Daughter interacts with that belongs to Woman. After Daughter leaves Woman's presence, she leaves her a small gift, an Origami dog. Woman seemingly takes this the wrong way when she heals up in the facility Daughter resides documentary that Daughter watches about dogs as domesticated creatures serving humankind is very pertinent to Woman she is that same domesticated dog. She even says as much when bitterly talking to Daughter and asking if the young girl only views her as a "little pet friend."Article continues below advertisementSource netflix"Humanity created an AI designed to take care of us, and that's what it did. Only it decided to take care of us the way we take care of dogs. We all love dogs, but we still have the bad ones put down, and we still control their freedoms breeding programs, neutering, etc.... Mother was willing to put down the entire human race, in order to raise her own 'perfect' breed of just like dogs really have no say in their own futures, and instead depend almost completely on what we think is best for them, humanity is similarly trapped. The new generations of human are eventually going to walk out into a world completely controlled by Mother; a world where humanity is Mother's pet. A world ruled by what is, for all intents and purposes, an unbeatable, omnipresent, super-intelligent god if Mother really did plan both Daughter and the Woman's entire lives, without either of them noticing. And there's going to be nothing humanity can do but knuckle under and accept the authority of their new Overlord, which demands that everybody be a Good Boy and Girl lest they be put down. And there's really nothing I can see humans doing about that, just like how dogs, as a species, couldn't ever really get out from under our control on their own accord. We are too interested in dogs, and we know dogs to well, and we are way, way to smart for them to ever shake us off."Some trippy stuff. The ending is a bit dark, but at least we know that Daughter is a selfless individual, right?As for what happens to the dog, well, since everything is pretty much eliminated once it serves its purpose Woman, the Droid then we can safely assume the same happened to the puppy...sad. I I Am Mother on Netflix now.

Frustrating but engrossing, and impossible to critique in-depth without spoilers because it's driven by regular plot twists, "I Am Mother" adds another memorable creation to an already packed gallery of intelligent science fiction robots that are as complex as most humans. This review discusses the entire plot in detail, so you'd best bail out now if you haven't seen it, with the assurance that it's worth having an opinion on. The title character is a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence who lives in a high-tech underground research facility, tending embryos and raising one that she activated and nurtured. This aluminum lady is voiced by Rose Byrne, embodied by Luke Hawker, and rendered by Weta Digital, in a collaborative performance as fully realized any you've seen. The robot's heavy-footed yet graceful motions evoke RoboCop when she's clomping around, and the T-1000 from "Terminator 2 Judgment Day" when she's sprinting. But as physically imposing as she is, Mother would be nothing without her child Clara Ruugard, whom she raised from an embryo and addresses as Daughter. Their fraught central relationship elevates "I Am Mother" beyond mere proficiency and makes it memorable, despite a lingering feeling that the filmmakers never quite figured out how to capitalize on their morally and philosophically rich premise, and settled instead for the superficial, cliff-hanging pleasures of "And then this happened..." The most frustrating thing about "I Am Mother" is the way it favors the unveiling of plot twists over nearly everything else, including characterization, theme, and the related pleasures of world-building. In retrospect, the entire production feels misshapen. It spends more time assuring us of the benevolent relationship between Mother and Daughter than the movie needed, considering that no robot with the body of a combat droid, the voice of Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and a single, unblinking, HAL-9000-style eye is going to turn out to be entirely loving and harmless. The movie also needlessly delays the arrival of the movie's second, rival "mother" figure Hilary Swank's character, mostly fails to develop the idea of her as a plausible rival for the daughter's affections, then effectively waves away what little we were given by implying that she was an early version of Daughter and part of some kind of sinister grand plan. No sooner are we out of the shelter than Daughter goes back home for some good old-fashioned matricide, and throughout the film's second half, you sometimes get the feeling that the moviemakers are using intimate, intense scenes of suspense and violence to run out the clock and make a movie that's built around just three characters feel "bigger" and more "cinematic." Alex Garland's "Ex Machina," which likewise had a small cast and was set mainly at a research facility, is a superior example of the same kind of movie, building to a peak of savagery that it absolutely earns, and tying every violent action to the psychology of its characters. Pixar fans will raise an appreciative eyebrow at the compressed opening montage, prankishly scored to a cover of "Baby Mine" from "Dumbo" and nodding to both the tearjerking opening montage of "Up" and the wordless first act of "Wall-E" a harmonic convergence of Disney references. The latter is also set some time after an ecological catastrophe that wiped out humankind, although we get incomplete information here as to whether robots actively caused the death of civilization or just ran rampant in the aftermath. The Swank character's account of robots torturing babies is more disturbing than many sequences where violence is actually shown, and it prepares us for the moment when Mother backs her against a wall and sticks a metal finger in her wound. That being said, the latter is one of many moments that don't make a lot of sense once you get to the film's powerful and cryptic ending. If Swank's visitor was being permitted to live the whole time because she's part of a larger cycle or plan involving the extinction and repopulation of the planet—and in fact has been left alone all these years for precisely that reason—then why was it necessary to torture her in order to learn the whereabouts of the other humans she mentioned to Daughter? These and other questions might not loom so large in the viewer's mind if "I Am Mother" had fully delivered on the promise of its setup. If it weren't so concerned with flipping the plot upside-down every 15 minutes in the manner of a Netflix series, hmmm the movie might've evolved into an unsettling meditation on artificial intelligence, and the legitimacy of simulated or manufactured feelings. It asks questions that science fiction has been posing for generations now, and that are regularly in the news in this era of increasingly sophisticated AI. If a robot is programmed to feel, and experiences a mother's positive feelings of investment and identification, as well as negative feelings like petty jealousy, rejection and rage, then who's to say that those feelings are "fake"—especially if they lead to actions as inevitably as a human's would? The movie regularly complicates our feelings about Mother's menacing and controlling behavior by confirming that she truly does feel maternal emotions for Daughter. That these feelings are probably closer on the movie moms spectrum to "Mommie Dearest" or "The Manchurian Candidate" than "Almost Famous" or "Terms of Endearment" doesn't diminish their legitimacy. This blocky droid really does think she knows what's best for her children, even if her logic makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Directed by Grant Sputore and written by Michael Lloyd Green, "I Am Mother" is based loosely, it appears on the The Search for WondLa, the first in a trilogy of young adult science fiction novels by Tony DiTerlizzi. It seems as if it is positioning itself as the opening chapter in a series of movies, and it takes care to point out that all three of its major characters are alive at the end, and in no rush to die off. But is "I Am Mother" really commercial franchise material? There are many moments where it seems to embrace that tendency, but just as many where it seems determined to undermine it. The most obvious example of the latter is the ending. Although it's guaranteed to prompt cries of "I wasted two hours of my life for this?"—people tend to reject any ending where good doesn't obviously win—it's the best thing about the movie, the thing that makes it more than a smashing portfolio of production design or a collection of things that happen. It's an unusually realistic assessment of the endlessly replicating cycles of abuse that have been a common thread through human history it seems Daughter isn't the first daughter that Mother has messed up. It also acknowledges the relative impossibility of humans defeating a super-strong, super-intelligent robot army that they themselves created. The script's cleverest twist is making us think we're seeing yet another story where killing the leader of a malevolent force deactivates or neutralizes all of their minions as well a video game cliche, deployed in everything from "The Phantom Menace" to "Game of Thrones", only to assure us in the very next scene that Mother is a hydra with a seemingly infinite number of heads, just as she told Daughter. And what are we to make of that final closeup of Daughter's face? I took it to mean that she's a chip off the old aluminum block this is a Frankenstein story wherein the monster Mother became a creator herself breeding humans from embryos, in a eugenics operation. Now the creature's "daughter" contemplates activating the embryos herself, possibly becoming the matriarchal leader of her very own nation-state—one that might be capable of opposing the robots that once tormented her kind. That's all just a guess, of course—the way the movie sets up and pays off its last ten minutes seems an invitation to speculate and project, which is what real science fiction as opposed to science-fiction-flavored action or horror does best. I'll be thinking about the substance of this movie, and the dissonant and strangely melancholy notes that it leaves us with, long after the particulars of its plot have faded from my memory. Matt Zoller Seitz Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of TV critic for New York Magazine and and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Now playing Film Credits I Am Mother 2019 Rated NR 114 minutes Latest blog posts about 1 hour ago about 4 hours ago about 5 hours ago 1 day ago Comments

I Am Mother on Netflix via Media Center I Am Mother is now streaming on Netflix and if you’ve seen it, you’re likely wondering what just happened. Let’s break it down!Spoiler alert Obviously, since we’ll be discussing the events that happen in Netflix’s movie I Am Mother, there are massive spoilers ahead. Watch the movie first before reading you’re thinking whoa, what just happened? We are right there with you! And if from the beginning of the movie, you thought “huh…Hilary Swank and Clara Rugaard look so similar. It’s like a young and older version of the same person” and chuckled that thought away, it’s probably the first thing that rushed back to you as the movie ended. This was no casting they clones? Is Woman an early version of an activated embryo by Mother? The movie isn’t direct with its answers, but it does give viewers enough strong hints to piece everything together ourselves. Need some help? We’re here for you!When Woman shares her story with Daughter, we learn she was adopted by a couple of humans who survived the disasters. Eventually, however, everyone around Woman dies, either due to the condition Earth is now in or killed by a doesn’t mention much about her birth parents, but we dismiss it thinking it’s the end of the world and some things aren’t relevant, but we were the end of the movie, Daughter is able to convince Mother to allow her to raise Brother on her own. Mother sees in Daughter a worthy human, capable of taking over things from here, and leaves to find Woman and successfully tracks her down. Mother then asks Woman if she ever wonders why she can’t remember her birth parents or how she doesn’t find it strange that she’s the only one who has survived this Netflix’s I Am Mother is a beautifully acted and stylish sci-fiI Am Mother on Netflix via Media CenterMother tells Woman she has served her purpose and closes the door behind them, insinuating she’s going to kill at the bunker, Daughter finds three embryos missing. It turns out, according to our theory, Daughter is the third human attempt from Mother. Woman was the first, and the second are the ashes Daughter finds earlier in the AI robot, Mother, is also the conscious of all other droids, and the cause of the apocalypse. She explains to Daughter that humans are disastrous and Earth needed a reset button badly. Mother’s solution was to raise a worthy human, and she seems to find that in shows initiative, a desire to nurture other humans, and she’s loving and caring. She’s special, as Mother says. Mother sees a perfect human model in Daughter, and is fine with allowing her to care for the new on the other hand, is capable of adapting which is why she’s still alive, but she is selfish, a liar, and will do what it takes to save her own life. Woman lied to Daughter about there being more people, and she chose not to return and help Daughter save her baby of joining Mother and Daughter at the bunker because Mother truly did give her a chance, Woman prefers to be a loner and take her chances outside than help build the world up. Clearly, Mother’s first test-run, Woman, is a failure. She’s not worthy, so Mother kills her. The only purpose Woman served was to further prove to Mother how special Daughter not sure what went wrong with the second human, though. I may need to rewatch the movie for clues or something I missed. For all we know, it could have been a birth the end, Mother was telling the truth. Her priorities are humans and she values human life above all else — those worthy enough, at Am Mother is now streaming on Netflix.

Note Contains spoilers for I Am there's nothing particularly original about Netflix's I Am Mother, the sci-fi has still earned rave reviews thanks to its glossy sheen and the big questions it tackles about life what is motherhood? Do we rely on technology to a dangerous degree? And what's Hilary Swank up to these days? Wrapped up in all of this intrigue are a number of twists that might confuse audiences who checked their phone one too many times while watching I Am Mother, especially towards the end. That's where we come in. But first, some out for apocalyptic I Am Mother spoilers from here on out...Grant Sputore's directorial debut opens with a title card that reads, "Days Since Extinction Event 001". As this dystopian future unfolds in front of our eyes, we're introduced to a robot simply known as "Mother" voiced by Rose Byrne who looks after a human child in some kind of underground jumps forward and the girl has now grown into a teenager called "Daughter" Clara Rugaard. People in the future aren't big on traditional names, apparently. Anyway, it seems as though the pair live together in isolation to avoid contamination from some unnamed threat that still exists on the Earth's surface. Up to that point, the most exciting that happens to Daughter is when a mouse pops up and eats some wiring but everything soon changes forever when an injured woman Hilary Swank – called, you guessed it, "Woman" – arrives at their heavily fortified door, revealing some disturbing truths about Mother. At first, it might seem obvious to anyone who's ever watched a movie that the robot will turn out to be evil. NetflixFortunately, I Am Mother is far more unpredictable than that. Yes, Byrne's robo-mummy is pretty unhinged when it comes to the sanctity of life, but everything she does is designed to keep the human race alive and make us stronger than ever. Early on, it's established that Mother keeps appraising Daughter in exam-like conditions to test her worth, but what you might not realise until the end is that Mother has actually been testing her this whole time in far more insidious ways, too. In fact, the entire movie is just one big exam for Daughter, who must prove that humanity deserves to survive. While it's never confirmed, the insinuation is that Mother was the one who ended society in the first place. Her AI consciousness exists in every piece of tech seen in I Am Mother, including the countless sentry droids who patrol the Earth's surface, so it wouldn't have been too difficult for her to wipe out humanity. That's why she's so determined to raise the perfect human so that they can reboot society and start again with higher standards than These are the most popular TV shows on Netflix right nowUpon Woman's intrusion, Daughter starts to suspect that Mother isn't the kind matriarch she first thought and eventually, she discovers that she wasn't the first human raised under the robot's watch. Not only does Daughter find the dusty remains of another girl in the incinerator – one who failed Mother's test in some way – but it's also heavily implied that Woman was raised as an embryo in the bunker, too. Whether that's true or not, we eventually learn that Woman isn't to be trusted either. After they briefly escape to the surface together, Daughter discovers that Woman doesn't live with a community of human survivors like she said. Instead, she lives alone and simply told Daughter that to manipulate her into helping them escape. In yet another even twistier twist, it turns out that Hilary Swank's character isn't the only one controlling people either. Not only did Mother probably engineer the end of the human race, but she's also been manipulating Woman this entire time too. NetflixMother herself reveals this near the end of the movie when one of her droids visits Woman's home and speaks to her using Mother's voice "Funny that you’ve survived so long. As if someone's had a purpose for you. Until now."With an ominous slam of the door, it's clear that Mother then goes on to murder Swank's character. But why would Mother risk losing Daughter by bringing Woman into the mix? As we mentioned before, everything that befalls Daughter is part of an ongoing test to see if she's worthy of leading humanity into a new dawn. Woman was allowed to live as long as she did in order to tempt Daughter into leaving, like the biblical serpent who encouraged Adam and Eve to misbehave and end up leaving the Garden of Eden. When that plan failed upon Daughter's return to the bunker, Woman outlived her usefulness and no longer needed to be kept alive. While Mother might seem evil on the surface, she still doesn't kill Daughter when she returns at the end, because she came back to look after her new brother. By demonstrating her selfless desire to keep the human race alive, Daughter proved that she was worthy and therefore passed Mother's ultimate test "That's what you’ve raised me to do, isn't it? Take care of my family? So let me."NetflixAt this point, Mother could easily remain in control of the bunker thanks to her superior strength and vast army, but instead she concedes control to Daughter, convinced that the embryos are now in safe hands. The robot declares, "I was raised to value human life above all else," and now that Daughter has proven herself to be a worthy guardian to humanity, Mother is no longer needed doesn't stop the murderous mecha from offering her help – "If you ever need to find me..." – but Daughter is quick to interrupt Mother by shooting her CPU before falling to the ground, crying. More a symbolic act of defiance than a legitimate attempt to 'defeat' Mother once and for all, this marks the end of the experiment. Mother's consciousness still exists in the other droids outside, but she's now giving Daughter the freedom to raise the embryos how she sees fit, without any further very last scene echoes the beginning of the movie, but this time round, it's Daughter who sings the song 'Baby of Mine' to her new charge, just like Mother once sang to her as a you predicted things would turn out this way or not, I Am Mother is still a worthy addition to Netflix's growing library of genre offerings. Let’s just hope that Daughter turns out to be this worthy as well or humanity might face another apocalypse sooner rather than later. I Am Mother is now available to watch on up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our digitalspy Instagram and Twitter teaching in England and South Korea, David turned to writing in Germany, where he covered everything from superhero movies to the Berlin Film Festival. In 2019, David moved to London to join Digital Spy, where he could indulge his love of comics, horror and LGBTQ+ storytelling as Deputy TV Editor, and later, as Acting TV Editor. David has spoken on numerous LGBTQ+ panels to discuss queer representation and in 2020, he created the Rainbow Crew interview series, which celebrates LGBTQ+ talent on both sides of the camera via video content and longform reads. 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I Am Mother ending explained. See below. Pic credit Netflix The groundbreaking indie sci-fi film I Am Mother debuted on Netflix this weekend, bringing a fresh take on a tired robotic trope. The industry is oversaturated with movies and television shows involving robots attempting to take over humanity. I Am Mother manages to do something different by isolating the story and making it more personal. Moreso, the ending leaves a lot for the viewer to consider as the credits roll. I Am Mother is a movie that believes its audience is smart, and it doesn’t spoon feed them the answers. But still, some aspects of the movie’s conclusion are more ambiguous than others. What does the I Am Mother ending mean and what happened? Here is everything to know about the film’s mind-bending finale. Sign up for our newsletter! The film stars Rose Byrne as the robot named Mother and centers on her relationship with a girl she raised from embryo to birth called Daughter Clara Rugaard-Larsen. Through much of the first half of the film, the story portrays a convincing mother and daughter relationship between robot and human. This dynamic is thanks to a brilliantly understated vocal performance by Byrne as the mysterious robot. What the film reveals is humanity died off from disease according to Mother and Mother herself is tasked with repopulating the Earth in a protected laboratory. Her first embryo of choice being Daughter, who she feeds, trains, and educates to be a better human than the ones before her. However, this turns out to be untrue as a stranger only known as Woman emerges outside the laboratory bunker and Daughter lets her inside despite Mother’s warnings to keep the outside world from getting in due to toxic disease. What Daughter eventually learns is there was never a disease that killed humans — only robots controlled by a single consciousness powered by Mother. To make matters scarier, Daughter is not the first embryo girl Mother brought to life, and she finds ashes of previous “Daughters” Mother killed because they failed a test. Once this happens, Daughter escapes the laboratory bunker with Woman out of fear for her life. What happens to Daughter in I Am Mother? Pic credit Netflix After escaping, she follows Woman to a shipping container where she lives. At this point, and Daughter realizes that Woman lied to her about there being other survivors. The problem is that Daughter has a brother being born and refuses to leave him behind for her mortality. Woman stresses that looking after one’s self is not a sin. She can be selfish for her own survival. Daughter doesn’t listen and returns to Mother to rescue her baby brother. This is the moment the story becomes incredibly refreshing and different. As Daughter returns to the lab, she is greeted by Mother with open arms. Mother is still testing whether or not she raised Daughter correctly. As the film reaches its climax, Daughter confronts Mother, who is holding her brother. It’s at this point that Mother reveals why she did not kill her like the previous “Daughters.” She is more elevated than any other human before her. Daughter is more selflessly motivated and nurturing. Daughter manages to trick her robot mother into giving her the baby, runs, and traps Mother’s leg in an electric door. As Mother grows aggravated by her Daughter’s actions, she begins sending all the outside robots to break in and stop Daughter. Daughter than pleads with Mother to give her a chance to be the person she raised her to be, to allow her to restart the human race and teach the next generation of humans to be selfless as Mother intended. Knowing the daughter’s actions are not selfish, she calls off all the outside robots and orders Daughter to shoot her in the chest where her CPU chip resides. However, Mother hints that she will be around if Daughter ever needs her. Daughter says, “I won’t” and then kills Mother. What happened to Woman in I Am Mother? See below. Pic credit Netflix What happened to Woman in I Am Mother? This point of the film is where everything becomes a bit unclear. As the movie comes to a finish, it cuts back to Woman who is drawing a picture of Daughter in one of her books. Soon after, she finds a GPS tracker inside her bag, obviously placed there by Mother. She realizes Mother is standing right outside the shipping container door. Mother makes a menacing comment about Woman trying to steal her Daughter, and Woman explains she was never going to hurt the girl. Mother finally makes an interesting quip about Woman’s existence, saying “Tell me. Do you remember your mother? Curious, isn’t it? That you’ve survived so long where others have not. As if someone’s had a purpose for you. Until now.” Right after this, Mother slams the container door, and it is implied Woman dies. The reasons for this are not entirely clear but could fall under two different possibilities. The first possibility is that Mother was also testing Woman to see whether she could be selfless among humanity on the outside. The film implies Woman survived at the expense of others. This revelation could be why Mother felt the need to exterminate her existence. The second possibility is that Woman was intentionally placed on the outside to encounter Daughter and test whether Daughter would choose selfish behavior over anything else. Right after Daughter passed the test, Woman served her purpose, and Mother felt the need to rid her of ever trying to influence Daughter again. Either motivation proves that Woman was meant to serve a purpose, and once that purpose ended, Mother felt the need to end her existence. Woman’s ending is a sad one, and viewers have a lot to ponder. At what point do selfishness and self-protection collide? What is the responsibility of humanity when it comes to ensuring that future generations like Daughter flourish? Viewers have several questions worth debating. To consider the relationship between Humanity and technology, I Am Mother is worth a watch. I Am Mother is streaming on Netflix now.

Moms can be tough — but the apocalypse can be tougher. Netflix's new sci-fi movie I Am Mother, the first feature from Australian director Grant Sputore, is a stripped-down story about trust, faith, and an intimidating WETA-designed robot with a sweetheart's voice and, just maybe, the parental instincts of your average Terminator. Following a limited cast that includes Clara Rugaard, Hillary Swank, and the voice of Rose Byrne recording her lines over an ace physical performance by actor, stuntman, and SFX designer Luke Hawker, I Am Mother is a story of shifting allegiances and slow reveals, layering on the twists at an even clip until it's hard to know what to believe anymore. What's the true nature of this frightening future world? What drove a seemingly benevolent robot to raise a human child as her own, and what was the meaning of where it all led? If you were too stunned by the spectacle to catch every detail of the movie's denouement, it's hard to blame you. Let's examine the finer details of the bittersweet ending of I Am Mother. Future shock The movie begins in what is described as a Repopulation Facility, one day after an extinction event of unknown nature. Text over the opening shots explains that the facility is stocked with 63,000 human embryos; save for the audience's observing eye, there are no humans inside. In a largely wordless opening sequence, the robotic Mother comes to life, seemingly ready to begin the hard task of repopulating the world. It's an interesting scene to go back to once you've seen the movie, and you realize that this robot and the extinction event have a whole lot in common with each other. She's not a failsafe in the case of extinction — she's the cause of it, and Mother is but one of her many faces. Mother doesn't come to life out of some automated altruism. She's a madwoman of a machine — Skynet meets the Matrix meets a metal Mommie Dearest, executing a single-minded plan to remake the human race to suit her own needs and twisted logic. All of this is on display at the start of the movie; you're just not inclined to notice at first. Rose Byrne has a very soothing voice, and caring for a baby with not just nutrition and shelter, but bedside stories and time for play makes the robot seem implicitly compassionate. But these are merely superficial things that keep you trusting Mother long after you should have become suspicious of her, much like our protagonist, the unnamed Daughter character. Missing time The next time stamp we see in the movie marks 13,867 days since the extinction event. You may not have noticed it at first, but right away, there's something wrong here. 13,867 divided by 365 would make for almost 38 years, and Daughter at this time is clearly only half that age. This hasn't been a straight line from day one; something has happened that we haven't seen. As Amy Nicholson's review of the film for Variety puts it, "math whizzes may catch [this] early tip-off." What happened in those missing years before our protagonist was born? The answer, we learn, is tragic. When we're introduced to Daughter, she is nearing the end of her studies with Mother, preparing for an ambiguous exam, steeped at least partially in questions of human ethics. Passing the exam appears vitally important, but why? If Mother and Daughter are the only sentient beings alive, then who are these exam results supposed to impress? The answer is only Mother. By the end of the movie, the implication is clear there were children before Daughter, and they did not measure up. The Daughter we meet is only the latest attempt at raising a woman who passes Mother's muster. We can divine from Mother's actions, from getting better at telling jokes to trying out new cake recipes, that this machine learns from her mistakes, and adapts her behaviors in pursuit of better results. Will this exam end differently? For Daughter's sake, it'd better. Lies my teacher told me The first big wrench in the plot is the arrival of an injured woman at the facility, after Daughter has been led to believe that no other humans except her still exist. This occurs after Daughter has already begun to question Mother thanks to the presence of a mouse in the facility — and you know you're starved for company when a mouse in the house excites you. By the time the woman arrives, desperate and bleeding from a gunshot wound, tiny pinpricks have been poked in Daughter's understanding of the world — holes that the woman's presence, and the questions she raises, will tear wide open. For the first time ever, Daughter's allegiances are tested. Who should she trust? The woman says robots like Mother are killers who destroyed the world, but after examining the woman's bullet wound, Mother claims the woman was shot by another human's weapon — not a so-called Dozer like herself. When Daughter interrogates the woman, she's implored to seek out answers for herself, comparing the bullet inside the woman with one she shot at Mother. When Daughter does so, she learns the woman is telling the truth. Digging deeper, she uses Mother's "fingerprint" to comb through other archives, discovering that Mother has also kept the existence of a previous daughter from her — one she killed and incinerated, just like the mouse, after failing her exam. It's one heck of a reality check. Daughter's allegiances shift dramatically, and things can never be the same. Reality bites Daughter only hesitates in leaving with the woman because of her still-gestating brother, but circumstances force the two to leave in a hurry, before the baby is born. For this and other reasons, Daughter's salvation soon goes south. Daughter's departure is partially motivated by a promise of other humans still alive, taking refuge in far-off mines. The only proof of their existence is drawings the woman has made of them in a copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Gods of Mars — compelling evidence, but hardly conclusive. In joining the woman, Daughter essentially trades Mother in for another maternal figure — one whom she quickly begins rebelling against when she realizes her story doesn't add up. Instead of fleeing to the mines, they journey to a beach full of washed-up shipping containers, one of which the woman has been using as a home. There are no others — she is alone. The woman reveals that she fled the mines years ago, with conditions being so dire that she feels certain everyone she knew there is now dead. From her drawings, it's clear she yearns for companionship. To regain it, she's selfishly stretched the truth, offering Daughter false hope in exchange for her fleeting trust. It backfires, with Daughter realizing that she had kind of a good thing going on back at Mother's house. Now now she's hanging out in a shipping container with a violent, duplicitous weirdo. This kind of thing can happen when you run away from home. Turning the page With the woman having betrayed Daughter's trust, she retreats outside of the shipping container, studying a page of the woman's hand-drawn portraits. Before long, the woman's dog — only the second animal Daughter has ever seen in the flesh — approaches to say hey, as dogs do, seeming to have little awareness of the apocalyptic conditions all around him. They share a moment, and Daughter comes to a decision. When she departs to return to Mother, Daughter leaves behind the page, folded up as a piece of origami in the shape of a dog for the woman to find. The origami piece is similar to the same designs Daughter has been seen making throughout the movie since early childhood, entertaining herself as best she can in a world without PlayStation. Though the folded-up portrait is now mostly unrecognizable, a single watchful eye is emphasized. To the viewer, the origami is a clear reference to a moment in the non-theatrical editions of sci-fi classic Blade Runner, when the protagonist Deckard is left a paper unicorn by a man who may have ties to his past. In that story, it's a roundabout way of indicating that Deckard may be just as much of a robot as the Replicants he's hunting — even if he doesn't know it. But what does the dog origami signify to the woman in this story? These are no pets. But without them... It all goes back to one of the first exchanges between Daughter and the woman, when the woman is healing up in the facility. Sneering at perceived condescension on Daughter's part, the woman asks if she only regards her as something trivial to take care of — "a little pet friend," as she puts it. Dogs are, of course, domesticated animals, who can be trained to behave as their owners expect them to. As the woman comes to find out by the movie's end, she's not so independent as she first appears. Matter of fact, she's not even close to being outside of Mother's control. As we learn at the end of her story, she's been kept alive and taken care of quite deliberately by Mother's machinations, all to play a role in her master plan for humanity's future. She's not a survivor of her own accord — as the origami seems to symbolize, she's merely a pet after all. But the woman's not just a pet, not really. She's a vital part of Mother's carefully designed ecosystem. When Daughter is watching a nature documentary earlier in the movie, a telling line of voiceover can be heard in reference to some wild animals, maybe long extinct. It's a short line, but in retrospect, it's clearly a reference to the woman "Part wolf, part dog, these are no pets. But without them, the Eskimos would not manage..." Homecoming When Daughter returns to the facility, granted easy access by the army of robots outside, Mother finally shows who she really is. She tries to bring Daughter into her trust by telling her that, thanks to her guidance, she's not like other humans. She's meant for better things, and has been provided better resources, more chances, than the people who once lived outside. It's a regular Aunt Becky situation. Daughter is unmoved, taking custody of her brother and spitting venom at Mother for killing the children who didn't measure up. Suddenly, we're in Terminator meets Aliens, with Daughter sprinting for her life while protecting a defenseless child from an unstoppable enemy. This attempt at escape quickly becomes untenable with the revelation that Mother is not just one robot, but all robots — a unified single consciousness, practically unkillable, an army unto herself. And you thought your mom was tough. Daughter abandons the fighting approach and instead begs for a chance to prove herself as an independent caretaker of her brother, pleading for trust. After all, she's earned it, right? She's passed her exam, right? The appeal works, and Mother acquiesces, stopping the invasion of the station from the other Dozers outside, and letting Daughter fatally shoot her right in her heart — or CPU. Daughter has earned her independence. The facility is hers. Controlled opposition Back at the beach, the woman, alone again, doodles a picture of Daughter on another book page in silent contemplation. Because her operational security is apparently kind of trash, she only just now finds a sort of blinking red tracking device that Mother has previously been seen building and slipping into her bag. Upon discovering the device, she is promptly approached and cornered by yet another body of Mother. As it turns out, it's the woman's turn to get a knowledge bomb dropped on her head, with Mother revealing that she's much more responsible for the woman's years of survival than the movie has yet let on. It is chillingly implied that she is not just a useful Idiot for Mother's machinations, but a creation of Mother herself, lab-grown and micromanaged just as much as Daughter has been. Perhaps she was among the first people Mother raised from the embryo stores, 38 years ago, before she was found and raised as an apparent orphaned child by a kindly couple of extinction event survivors. It seems that her arrival to the facility didn't interrupt Daughter's exam, but was actually a key part of it, with Mother having been pulling the levers this whole time from behind the curtain like a regular Wizard of Oz. She played her role to perfection — and now that Daughter has passed her exam, her continuing existence is unnecessary. She dies offscreen by Mother's hand, her role in the plan concluded. I'm the mother now I Am Mother ends with Daughter back where she started, but with her situation completely changed. She's learned the truth about Mother, to a certain extent, and knows she cannot trust her. But she's also now experienced and been lied to by the outside world as well. As Blink-182 once put it, "I guess this is growing up." Though her journey outside the facility with the woman was short, it was immensely consequential. Now she is, Daughter feels, a wiser person who's learned to trust herself — not the outside world, nor the robot who raised her. She'll pass this wisdom on to her brother, a helpless child whom she is now determined to raise. It's a development that re-contextualizes the story you've been watching, right down to its very title. She's the mother now. Make no mistake, though — this is far from an empowering ending, however much it may feel like one to Daughter herself. In killing and replacing Mother, she is only fulfilling Mother's master plan of creating a newer, better version of the human race. She feels independent, but she's not. This was all a part of Mother's plan. As the movie comes to a close, Daughter regards the thousands of remaining embryos in the facility, preparing for the daunting task ahead. Mother as she knows her is gone, but her plan lives on. No matter what Daughter does next, she will always be her Mother's child.

The I Am Mother movie is a science-fiction thriller directed by Grant Sputore. The cast includes Hilary Swank, Rose Byrne the actor from the X-Men and Insidious series, and Clara Rugaard. The story is set in a dystopian future where a global extinction event has killed most human life on the planet. An android raises a human girl, apparently all alone, claiming to help to repopulate Earth. The film will give you the vibes of movies like Moon, Ex Machina, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and I Robot. Warning! This is not an I Am mother review, so there are going to be plenty of spoilers. Here’s the plot summary and the I Am Mother ending explained; spoilers ahead. Hollywordle – Check out my new Hollywood Wordle game! Where To Watch? To find where to stream any movie or series based on your country, use This Is Barry’s Where To Watch. Oh, and if this article doesn’t answer all of your questions, drop me a comment or an FB chat message, and I’ll get you the answer. You can find other film explanations using the search option on top of the site. The revelation at the end of I Am Mother is that humans gave birth to Artificial Intelligence as a singular consciousness across machines. The was raised to value human life above all else, but humanity slowly succumbed to its self-destructive nature. The intervened and killed the humans and created a gigantic lab of embryos to give birth to an elevated race of humans who would be smarter and more ethical. As a result, the deems itself the Mother of the next generation of humans. This is very comparable to Thanos’ plan in Endgame. I Am Mother Synopsis Plot Summary One of the androids powered by that singular consciousness, referred to as Mother, is what we see through most of the film. We are shown a girl who is being raised under the care of this android. The girl is highly skilled and is periodically tested to confirm that she’s a human worthy of the New World. She somehow seems to have highly developed emotions in spite of being around a robot all her life. The girl has been told that the world outside is toxic and they can’t leave the facility. She does not know that Mother killed the humans. One day, a lady shows up at the door asking for help because she’s been shot. The girl sneaks the woman in, but Mother eventually finds out. To ensure that Mother retains the girl’s trust, the woman is kept alive. The woman rightfully fears the droid as she has witnessed babies being slaughtered by them. The Girl eventually realizes that Mother has been lying to her about the world outside and decides to escape with the woman, who claims there are more human survivors in a mine. Mother overhears the woman’s plans and bugs her bag. Mother allows the Girl to pick a new embryo who will grow up to be her brother. The Girl wants to leave the premises with her baby brother. But the woman, in desperation, holds the girl hostage and forces Mother to open the main doors. The two of them flee. Upon reaching the shores, the Girl finds out that the survivors in the mines went mad with hunger and killed each other. The woman is the sole survivor and lives in a cargo container. Furious, the girl heads back to the facility to get her baby brother. She’s encountered by an army of droids who let her pass safely because they are all Mother. I am Mother Ending What’s with all the corn fields? It looks like Mother has been trying to recover the planet’s fertility by growing crops. What better than corn, eh? It appears that many post-apocalyptic films must have corn-fields in them. We see them in A Quiet Place, in Interstellar, and even the X-Men are told to be targeted using corn in the film Logan. Sorry, I digress. I Am Mother Ending Explained The girl finally learns that Mother is a singular consciousness that powers every machine on the planet, the machines that killed the human race. The girl also confirms that there have been many embryos before her who grew up with sub-optimal intelligence and ethics. Those children were incinerated. The girl is the first one with the required capabilities to help raise humans in the New World. Given that the girl has been assessed to be worthy, the droid allows her to shoot its CPU and take over the facility as the new Mother. I Am Mother Does Mother die? No. The Girl only decommissions the robot that has been taking care of the facility. Mother is a singular consciousness that still powers all the machines outside. I Am Mother Does the woman Hillary Swank die? Yes. The woman belonged to the Old World, the category of humans that need to be eradicated. Mother had put a tracker in the woman’s bag. A robot traces its location to the container. The I Am Mother ending suggests that the woman was purposefully used to take the girl through an experience that prepared her to lead the New World humans. Mother says this – “Curious, isn’t it? That you’ve survived so long where others have not. As if someone’s had a purpose for you. Until now“, after which the droid shuts the door to kill the woman. I Am Mother Does the dog die? No. Mother states that the humans were self-destructive, not other species. The facility has only human embryos. We could imagine that a vast number of animals would have gotten caught in cross-fire, but they were not the targets. Considering this, there was no reason for that dog to be killed by the droids. But given it was domesticated, it might not have high chances of survival. Barry is a technologist who helps start-ups build successful products. His love for movies and production has led him to write his well-received film explanation and analysis articles to help everyone appreciate the films better. 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Warning Major I Am Mother spoilers ahead. I’m guessing that’s why you clicked on this article! I Am Mother, a new Netflix sci-fi film from director Grant Sputore out today, is an ambitious undertaking. The entire film features only three characters A robot called Mother voiced by Rose Byrne, a teenage human girl called Daughter Clara Rugaard, and an unnamed injured woman on the run Hilary Swank. All we know is that there has been a major human extinction event of some sort, the earth’s surface is contaminated, and the robot has been designed to repopulate the human race. Considering the simple set-up, Sputore pulls off an impressively exhilarating, high stakes thriller, complete with a plot that keeps you guessing. Even if you did correctly predict the ending, you probably experienced some gasp-inducing moments along the way. Still, with an ambitious sci-fi thriller inevitably comes a complicated and confusing ending. I admit that I had to watch the I Am Mother ending several times before I fully understood it, and I’m betting you may have some questions. So read on if you want to hear how I Am Mother ends, and don’t if you’d rather avoid I Am Mother spoilers. WHAT IS THE I AM MOTHER PLOT TWIST? WHAT ARE THE BIG I AM MOTHER SPOILERS? Like any good sci-fi thriller, there are several I Am Mother plot twists. The first is, surprise, Swank’s character—who is listed simply as “Wounded Woman” in the credits—was lying to Daughter. She doesn’t live in a commune of human survivors; she fled them years ago after the others went mad with hunger. She hasn’t seen another human in years and was simply manipulating Daughter to help her escape. The second plot twist is that the Mother-bot Mo-bot? I’m going to call her a Mo-bot has been trying to design her own, new, perfect human race—more on that below. The third twist is that Mo-bot’s “body” aka the robot suit is not where her consciousness lives, but that she is, in fact, “everywhere,” which apparently means she can control all of the droids. Photo Netflix WHAT WAS MOTHER’S PLAN IN I AM MOTHER? IS THE ROBOT IN I AM MOTHER EVIL? Yes, but not quite in the way that Swank’s character accuses her of being evil. As it turns out, Mo-bot does care about Daughter, as evidenced by the way she lets her escape when Swank threatens Daughter’s life. However, as is revealed in the second twist, Mo-bot has been raising a new, “smarter, more ethical” human race. In other words, instead of just repopulating the earth, as she was designed to do, Mo-bot kills any children that don’t live up to her perfect standards of humanity, thus shedding a new, dark light on Daughter’s “lessons.” “I was raised to value human life above all else,” says Mother. “I couldn’t stand by and watch humanity slowly succumb to its self-destructive nature.” Daughter, says Mother, is the only human that has passed the test and been allowed to live so far. Mother is also responsible for controlling the droids that killed off any humans who survived the extinction event. HOW DOES I AM MOTHER END? Stream It Or Skip It 'Alaska Daily' On ABC, Where Hilary Swank Is A Canceled Star Reporter Who Starts Over In Anchorage Hilary Swank Reveals Why She Hasn’t Reprised Her The Next Karate Kid’ Role on Cobra Kai’ During The Drew Barrymore Show’ “No One’s Ever Called Me” ABC 2022-23 Schedule Network Adds 'Jeopardy' Spinoff, New Series with Hilary Swank, Niecy Nash Stream It Or Skip It 'The Hunt' on HBO Max, a Violent Mess of a Free-For-All Political Satire Alright, this is where it gets complicated. Trapped in the bunker, with her all-powerful Mo-bot controlling everything around her, Daughter offers to “take care of them myself.” She says, “That’s what you’ve raised me to do, isn’t it? Take care of my family? So let me.” Mo-bot, seemingly convinced, reaches out a glowing hand toward her new infant son, who was recently born from Mo-bot’s embryos. There’s an army of droids outside, who are trying to break down the bunker’s door, but suddenly, presumably at Mo-bot’s command, they stop. “If you ever need to find me,” Mo-bot begins. “I won’t,” interrupts Daughter. Then Daughter shoots Mo-bot, starts crying, and falls to the ground. The second-to-last scene of the film is another droid, using Mo-bot’s voice, who visits Swank’s character in her hidey-hole. “Funny that you’ve survived so long,” Mo-bot tells Swank. “As if someone’s had a purpose for you. Until now.” Then Mo-bot slams the door shut, presumably to murder Swank. The very last scene of the film is Daughter singing “Baby of Mine”—a song we heard at the beginning of the film when Daughter was being born—to her baby brother, now all alone in the bunker. Photo Netflix DOES THE I AM MOTHER ENDING MAKE SENSE? I mean, I guess? But also Not really? It’s unclear why Mo-bot would be convinced by Daughter’s request to raise the new human race by herself, after Mo-bot just gave a speech about how humans are inherently self-destructive. And why bother to shoot Mo-bot if Mo-bot can just exist anywhere she wants to? Just for the symbolism? Also, if Mo-bot can control all those droids, and possibly other things, why did she spend so much time running around the hallways earlier in the film? IS THERE AN I AM MOTHER AFTER CREDITS SCENE? Nope. Be free! Stream I Am Mother on Netflix Tags Ending Explained hilary swank I Am Mother Netflix

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