Be Right Back

     At the beginning of this movie, young couple Ash and Martha are starting off their new life, by moving to the countryside. The day after they began unloading their belongings, Ash set out to return the car that they had rented, before the car shop closed. As the day turned into night, Martha realized that she had not heard from Ash the entire day and started to get worried. Frantically trying to get a hold of Ash, Martha decides to call her sister, and she believes that something horribly wrong has happened. As her sister tries to comfort her, Martha hears a knock at the door and soon realizes that it is the police. It is not clarified how Ash died exactly, but I assume that he died in a car accident.

     As Martha was grieving at her husband's funeral, one of her friends gave her an idea to help with her pain. The idea was simply that she could download something, like a app in today's world, that would end up talking to Martha like a typical phone-call, but would sound like Ash, even though he was dead. Now I can see why Martha decided to take her friends advice, but the whole concept of a software analyzing the deceased social media and old messages, and then using their voice to help cope with the pain is a little weird to me. Now if I was in Martha's shoes, I would probably do the same thing if I was feeling her pain.

     My next speaking point is about Ash 2, because that made this film even more interesting and I personally got a little uncomfortable seeing Ash 2, because today's society is currently working on those types of projects today. After talking with software Ash, or Ash 1.5, for a bit she decided to order Ash 2. At first Martha was freaked out by Ash 2, but then came around to enjoying his company, especially during their alone time. But as time went on, Martha started realizing that Ash 2 was not really Ash. She kept getting upset, because Ash 2 was not showing any emotions like Ash 1 would express. Martha eventually kicked Ash 2 out of the house. Later she then brings him back into the house, but then requests that he jump of a cliff, where Ash then tries to show that he has emotions and begs Martha to not make him jump.

     The film then skips ahead about ten years and the audience sees Martha and her daughter eating cake, because it is her daughter's birthday. So what happened to Ash 2? Did he jump off the cliff ten years ago? The audience then discovers that Martha has kept Ash 2 upstairs since their time on the cliff, and I believe that the reason behind that is, because Ash 1 told Martha that his mother used to put boxes of pictures in the attic, whenever a family member died, and I believe that was what Martha was thinking when she decided to keep Ash 2 in the attic.