Sunday, June 4, 2023

Review of M3GHAN

 

This isn’t Child’s Play nor is 2001’s A.I. nor the 80s Small Wonder series. A pinch of characteristics of David from Prometheus, Sonny from I Robot & Ava of Ex-Machina; is embedded inside M3GHAN.   

M3GHAN seems to be directed in a manner to raise an alarming bell as what happens if & when Androids go out of control, which I somehow don’t support. Creativity can make anyone a Protagonist or Antagonist; herein M3GHAN is the antagonist, who has gone a bit out of control in protecting Cady (the girl (who lost both her parents) she’s being living with being a test subject). Just as Cady been succumbed to the attachment theory after meeting M3GHAN; M3GHAN too seems to have been succumbed to the said theory.

The ending where M3GHAN, an Android, starts walking as if has been possessed, & all that messy make-up, looked a bit out of sync to me. Means, she being basically been transformed into a possessed evil human body, didn’t look like a Sci-Fi picturization. C’mon!

The best part was when M3GHAN plays Toy Soldiers on piano. That was one of the most wittiest scene. The dance was a bit cheesy. But undeniably, the bonding of both Cady & M3GHAN that stitched the entire flick.

But I have a question. A mere toy company inventing this level of AGI without any investment or otherwise, makes Gemma & her team -> genius.

This is opposite to what we saw in Finch, Transcendence, Automata. Of course, Bruce, the Robot, been projected more in sync with human civilization; but M3GHAN is basically an alarming bell, reducing AGI to be mere an antagonist, rather an indispensable asset.

Despite that, it was an OK watch!

© Pranav Chaturvedi

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