This film had me like.....
Watching this film I didn't know what I was expecting, but I know it was not that. The scariest part to me about watching this, was the fact that this technology is not that far off. Although I think Martha had a reason for continuing the service and taking it even farther, I do not under any circumstances think this technology should be allowed. First of all, it is not helping the person who is trying to grieve the death, it is allowing them to cling onto this last remaining piece of their loved one which is completely false. Also in this case, the daughter now thinks it is okay to first of all keep someone locked away in your attic, and second of all keep a technologic clone of someone who passed away. Neither of these situations are healthy by any means, and as someone who was so opposed to technology and her husband's cellphone at the beginning, Martha should have realized how crazy this was. It is terrifying to me to think that people could actually buy services like this in the near future, and it is even more terrifying for me to know that people will buy services like this and they will be completely okay with it. This false sense of a person's loved one still being alive is not healthy in any way and it is not okay. Ash's clone is clearly deep in the uncanny valley. Sure he looks and sounds like him but there is that little bit that still sounds and acts slightly robotic. I found clone Ash to be extremely creepy, and I don't know if Martha was able to overlook it for the most part because she was still grieving, but there is no way I would ever be able to endure that. I am glad that towards the end she started to realize that it was not her husband, nor would it ever be her husband, but I don't think locking him in her attic and visiting him with her daughter every weekend was the right way to go about it. It's ironic how in the beginning, Ash talked about how his mom put all the pictures of his brother and dad in the attic when they passed, and now Martha is basically doing the same thing, only instead of pictures she is storing a robotic clone instead.
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In today's world, technology continues to evolve in many ways. But in Martha's case, the technology she used to duplicate her loved one was creepy. Like you said in your post, this type of technology should not be acceptable for any reason what so ever. I especially did not like the idea of Martha's young daughter interacting with Ash 2. I feel that because her mother chose to grieve by living with a clone, the daughter could choose to make similar and/or poorer decisions.
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