‘The character is a dead eyed, blank faced, emotionless synthetic human and we thought you’d be ideal for the role!’ It’s not the type of call that any actor wants from a casting director and yet we’re guessing it’s the one that Megan Fox got when she accepted the lead role in Subservience. It must have left Amanda Holden furious with envy….although from the look on her face you just couldn’t tell.
Nick (Michele Morrone) is tending to his wife Maggie (Madeline Zema) whose has illness sees her unable to do anything but lie in bed. It’s a condition that several million Brits have been struck down with too and diagnosed as, ‘workshy sponger-itis’, living off state benefits and only able to scroll through the Netflix menu and answer the door to Uber Eats. But Maggie’s condition is far worse and genuine leaving Nick effectively as a one parent family as his wife coalesces. But its whilst taking his daughter Isla (Matilda Firth) through the shopping mall that he encounters the possible answer to his workload woes. A domestic SIM – an android to help out around the home subservient to the needs of the family. He soon buys one who arrives ready formed and knocking at his door in the form of Alice (Megan Fox) and only too happy to do the household chores and cook. It’s the answer to Nick problems leaving him to care for both his wife and daughter and able to carry on with his own job.
But the dynamic soon changes and who is playing subservience to who with Nick increasingly stressed by his wife’s condition and Alice soon offers a helping hand ….plus all her other body parts as she offers him solace in a far more intimate way. Getting him to reboot her software (now there’s a euphuism we never thought we’d use) they are soon bumping flesh and cogs. Nick is racked with remorse presumably because not only has he been unfaithful to his wife but he’s also been two timing the washing machine. But Alice increasingly gains sentience and goes full terminator seeing off anyone that gets between her and Nick claiming, ‘I must protect my primary user’ an excuse not heard since Jeffrey Epstein was asked about Prince Andrew.
As a kind of grown up version of M3GAN there’s little that we have not seen before but Subservience is very much for fans of Megan Fox with several set pieces seeing her lay waste to stereotypical misogynist men and there’s a pleasing if downbeat ending not usually associated with such fare.
related feature : How they made the M3GAN doll……
related feature : ‘Terminator Dark Fate’ – the actual model used in the film
Here’s the Subservience trailer……
Subservience will be available EST from 13th September and TVOD from 20th September 2024
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