Mother pinning the woman against the wall and interrogating her about the mines and even sticking a finger in her bullet wound only for her to respond with "Go f*ck yourself" was overtly reminiscent of the climax in Terminator 2 when the T 1000 interrogates and tortures a defiant Sarah Connor who gives the same response.
Solid movie even with the somewhat confusing ending .
I kept thinking "Terminator" over and over again. But the movie stood on its own, so it didn't seem like a cheap copy.
sharePerhaps Skynet is running those robots and the purpose of the base is to make super humans loyal to machines, and later to be used for infiltrating the John Connor group. :p
shareI also think there's some resemblance to embryos being hatched in "The Matrix," or maybe it's coincidence, but something about the birthing pod and the fluids, etc, made me think of a visual nod to Neo's movie.
shareDid you also recognise the Horizon: Zero Dawn plot?
Machines destroy the Earth, humans stored while Gaia restores the Earth, Gaia births a girl to help her save the Humanity.
It almost seemed like a gratuitous Terminator callback, since, as the ending reveals, Mother the Woman was out there and likely all alone.
More to the point, Mother should've known where the mines were, since she abandoned the Woman with the mine-humans in the first place.
There weren't any mines or other humans. The older woman was kicked out of the base when she was little and lived in the shipping container down at the beach until she decided she wanted some company and tricked her way back into the base.
shareI think there were other humans--she sketched their faces just as she did with Daughter's.
shareShe was watching TV-shows when she was little in the base, they easily could have been a mix of faces from guests she remembered and made up very detailed lifes for as she was lonely and bored on the outside.
shareThere are mixed messages in the show: Mother seems to know all about Woman and what's outside, so why torture her about the mines?
Woman is carrying what I'm guessing is a dead homing beacon in her satchel, which Mother repairs and returns to the satchel--Woman is fingering it right when Mother appears at the cargo container door at the end, and now the light is on. But if Mother was keeping an eye on her, why need the homing beacon? Or was the device something else?
Mother was torturing the woman about the non existing mines because she needed to keep the woman's crazy going. Mother kicked her out all those years ago because she was inferior, she didn't want her staying at the base. She needed the woman to test the girl's loyalty to the base and babies.
Mother put the homing beacon on the woman just in case the woman wasn't stupid enough to return to her old home.