Martha and the "Fake Ash"

In the film, Be Right Back, a woman named Martha experience a tragedy moment once her husband, Ash, died. At the repast, her friend recommended her a program where she will be able to still communicate with Ash. Unwillingly at first, Martha screamed at her friend and tell her to shut up, but emotions run deep when she finds out that she's pregnant and she then begin to use the program.

This program was designed to mimic Ash's voice and things they he would actually say by using his old social media sites. As Martha started talking more and more to the Fake Ash on the phone she drew emotionally attached to it. One scene that had me feeling that it has gone too far is when she dropped and broke her cell while she was on the phone with him. She was so dismantled and sad that she began crying. After that she gets a cloned Ash or what is called a "gemenoid sent to her home. This gemenoid looked exactly like Ash. Martha was at first unease  about the clone but then starts to get use to it. After days gone by she grew uncomfortable with the fact that its not actually Ash and that he didn't do thing that the real or normal Ash would.

Watching this film had me in such disbelief. It's crazy how Martha further the relationship as far as she did knowingly that that was not her husband. I felt that this robotic form of her husband was unexplainably wrong. She didn't give herself a chance to completely grieve and get over the fact that her husband is gone. In fact, she didn't even get rid of the gemenoid once she grew tired of it. She simple just placed it in the as if she cant just go up there whenever she wants. I also didn't like the fact the her daughter is even also attached to the Fake Ash. I don't think the daughter is old enough to know what exactly what is going on but even then how is a mother suppose to explain a situation like that to her child. That is a awkward situation to explain to a child.

Also looking at this  technology was way more advance than what we have today. For example, when she as going through her messages on her computer, she came across a message that she didn't want to see. To throw it out she swiped her hand and balled it up as if she was throwing away a real piece of paper. In turn, the computer sensed her  motion, I guess, and deleted put of her inbox. I found this very interesting but awkward. It amazingly weird seeing the uncanny valley theory portrayed in this film. I find it creepy that this might actually be something in our near future.