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Perhaps it’s just too easy and obvious, but it seems inevitable to consider M3GAN‘s ultimate address regarding our relationship with technology. The film could actually be good or bad, but Gerard Johnstone in the director’s seat, and Akela Cooper as a writer, have made sure to tackle the theme that will give everyone something to talk about: These things will exist someday, and whether or not we are able to make them that smart, fiction-based films could at least work as some kind of cautionary tale for generations that seem oblivious to the dangerous nature of artificial intelligence.
The problem is what people actually got to do after M3GAN. Tik Tok challenges and memes are proof that we are not paying full attention to important things.
That’s as far as I’ll go with my message about what I believe M3GAN is really about. Luckily, Johnstone and Cooper have made a very good film that’s fully entertaining from the beginning and stays fresh in tone and humor. Is it scary? Not even a little bit and it’s OK. It isn’t supposed to be. The unnerving feeling you get when this great robot starts being emotional is acceptable and it’s OK. Just don’t give it too much thought. These films exist for entertainment purposes and on that note, it’s a pretty good approach to something we can identify with.
For those of you who don’t know, M3GAN tells the story of a child and her aunt who must face the permanently learning machine called M3GAN. The robot is a creation of a large company trying to create the ultimate toy for kids. The problem is M3GAN is able to learn too much and becomes defensive when people realize she may be getting to smart and attached to the child. Enter a third act full of violence and unexpected dramatic turns and you get a modern version of a Chucky doll wreaking havoc on humanity. But didn’t we have this with the remake of Child’s Play already?
Anyway. We’ll let things slide for the sake of yet another adaptation of the “doll turning evil” tale that we like so much. M3GAN is good at keeping us hooked to a film that we know how it will turn out. It never plays safe when putting children in danger and body count is terrifyingly high. Of course, there’s a funny element in how M3GAN seems to fool everybody in a society that’s naive enough to think robots can’t be dangerous. Clearly, in the universe it takes place in, there aren’t horror movies.
Films like M3GAN are the reason why horror is looked down upon as a respectable genre. This is a “hard to miss” reality which we embrace each day when we celebrate the existence of ridiculous films. What would we do without them? Probably go through overly dramatic snoozefests that aren’t really that interesting. We’ll keep the faith in modern storytellers who will keep showing the world the value of the irreverent and subversive.
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