First time i have seen this movie in many years.... Question: instead of leaving him and Teddy in the woods, why didn't Monica just turn David off and bury him? I don't get why she would not just turn the machine off.
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She was a back stabbing bitch.
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well put. that's exactly how i feel about her, too. she wasn't completely a cold-hearted bitch, she tried to help him, and did what she thought was right. it may have been cowardly or whatever, but it definitely wasn't without some thought. i mean look at her face when David is hugging her on the bed when she tells him they're going somewhere together, and she turns to Henry watching in the doorway. She obviously cared to some extent.
shareBetter get used to people like Monica in this world because that's who runs it! Ask anyone who gets social security, anyone!
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I don't think it had a switch-off button. The only option was to take it back and destroy it.
But Monica grew fond of David and couldn't bare to take him to the factory. So she gave him the chance to live, albeit as a fugitive basically.
It does seem selfish and a coward's way out but you can also tell that Monica hated herself for doing it. She did what she thought was the right thing to do and offered him the lesser of two evils.
I would imagine she ended up feeling guilty for the remainder of her life. Hopefully Henry felt guilty too.
She couldn't do it. He was almost like her own son. At least she wouldn't have the memory of killing him, just abandoning him.
shareAbandoning him, knowing that he loved her and was incapable of loving anyone else. Still sounds like she was a *beep* person.
shareShe was!
Monica was a heartless bitch! It would have been much less cruel to have him terminated than roaming the world only loving her and feeling abandoned! She was a bitch! I couldn't stand her or this movie.
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I agree with you on all points, and that's exactly how I saw the scene. Well said.
Did you ever see "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"?
The hunstman is sent into the woods with Snow White, under instructions to take her there and kill her. But he doesn't have the heart to do it, so he releases her and begs her to run off and never be seen again.
Sound familiar? 😉
But that's not the same thing.
The Huntsman didn't have a relationship with Snow White. Plus David was attached to Monica. He thought that was his mother. She knew he wouldn't be able to attach to anyone else but her. David didn't know how to function in the world without her.
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I know David was programmed for this, but he was WAY too dependent on his "Mommy" being happy. I know her leaving him in the woods and his journey since then is supposed to make us root for him, but I found a lot of it annoying (him smashing the copy mecha of himself, going to all the trouble he did just to ask the blue fairy to make him human, asking Dr. Know It All about the blue fairy).
shareI know David was programmed for this, but he was WAY too dependent on his "Mommy" being happy. I know her leaving him in the woods and his journey since then is supposed to make us root for him, but I found a lot of it annoying (him smashing the copy mecha of himself, going to all the trouble he did just to ask the blue fairy to make him human, asking Dr. Know It All about the blue fairy).
I thought Monica was horrible for dumping David in the woods. I was crying when I watched that part.
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