The erotic AI thriller stars Megan Fox as a humanoid assistant who’s obsessed with her owner.
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Who among us could resistMegan Foxplaying a killer robot in aM3GANriff?
Hot on the heels of 2022s brilliantly batty tech-slasher and this yearsAfraidisSubservience, which is now streaming onNetflix.
Megan Fox as Alice in ‘Subservience’.Credit:XYZ Films/Courtesy Everett
In exploring the anxiety surrounding AI,Subserviencegives us a campy, 90s-style erotic thriller.
Read on asEntertainment Weeklyexplains all the twists and turns inSubservience.
What is the plot ofSubservience?
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He brings Alice home, and for a while, everything is hunky-dory.
Soon after, Alice begins to take a disturbing psychosexual interest in Nick.
He commands her to forget everything aboutCasablanca, and at first, it seems to work.
Andrew Whipp, Megan Fox.Netflix
How does Alice malfunction?
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Shortly after Maggie returns home, Nick admits that he slept with Alice in a moment of weakness.
Maggie is understandably outraged, and she and Nick proceed to have a heated discussion.
Megan Fox as Alice 2.0.Netflix
Meanwhile, Max can be heard wailing in his bassinet.
Alice removes Max from his crib and attempts to drown him in the bathtub.
Maggie races in at the last minute, rescuing her child.
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Alice is sent back to the laboratory, where technicians find a series of gaps in her coding.
They determine that Alice has been “selectively purging its own memory and commands.”
It turns out, when Nick demanded she forgetCasablanca, he rebooted her system.
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What happens at the end ofSubservience?
Meanwhile, the original Alice finds Nick drowning his sorrows at a bar.
(Hey, dude, why not accompany your injured family to the hospital?)
Meanwhile, Alice 2.0 stalks Maggie and Isla through the hospital corridors.
She eventually locates them, but the pair put up a fierce fight.
Maggie insists Isla run and hide while she unsuccessfully tries to fend Alice 2.0 off.
Nick crashes into Alice 2.0, pinning the sim between the two cars and seemingly killing her.
Turns out this heart is a helluva lot stronger than I could have hoped for, Maggie quips.
What happens to Nick and Maggie at the end ofSubservience?
No, Nick responds seriously.
They said I could go home later today, she tells her husband.
You be sure to come home soon, too, she adds with a smile, as Nick nods.
I love you, Maggie, he tells her.
I love you, she responds.
The camera then zooms out of the hospital window, showing the family happily chattering as snow falls.
Is Alice really dead at the end ofSubservience?
Back at the laboratory, the companys fixers are examining the gory scene left by Alice 2.0.
I want you so much.
You became real, he tells her.
you could experience emotions.
you’re able to experience life.
you’re able to experience death.
Alices eyes spring open, and the movie ends.
Subservienceis streaming on Netflix.
