Director: Grant Sputore
Starring: Clara Rugaard, Hilary Swank, Rose Byrne
Running Time: 113 minutes
Synopsis: After a human extermination event, the droid "Mother" (voiced by Rose Byrne) oversees a technology-controlled bunker stocked with thousands of human embryos. Mother grows one embryo into a Daughter and raises her over the years. As a teenager, the lonely Daughter (Clara Rugaard) becomes increasingly restless, but Mother insists that the outside world is contaminated. Their living arrangements are disrupted when a Woman (Hilary Swank) from the outside pleads for entry into the bunker, and Daughter decides to let her in.
Running Time: 113 minutes
Synopsis: After a human extermination event, the droid "Mother" (voiced by Rose Byrne) oversees a technology-controlled bunker stocked with thousands of human embryos. Mother grows one embryo into a Daughter and raises her over the years. As a teenager, the lonely Daughter (Clara Rugaard) becomes increasingly restless, but Mother insists that the outside world is contaminated. Their living arrangements are disrupted when a Woman (Hilary Swank) from the outside pleads for entry into the bunker, and Daughter decides to let her in.
What Works Well: This Australian production starts with the solid opening premise of humanity's demise, and then deviously stretches the scope in unexpected directions. Writer Michael Lloyd Green is interested in themes of trust, responsibility, motherhood, species salvation, and the role of technology, but only gradually reveals the plot's specific intentions. The bunker's dark and mazy hallways accommodate survival essentials within the glistening aesthetic of a machine-controlled environment, and Clara Rugaard capably carries an acting load spanning from innocent wonderment to duty fulfillment.
What Does Not Work As Well: The pacing is slow, and the running time is 20 minutes longer than necessary. The clever resolutions still leave a few important plot holes unexplained.
Key Quote:
Mother: Humans can be wonderful.
Daughter: Then why did you only make one?
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