There are no more dangerous words than “I love you” when spoken by a talking doll. Whether it’s speaking for technological reasons or magical reasons doesn’t matter. The massacre is always around the corner. And it will make you laugh. Not like the real lifelike dolls that are actually sold and not funny at all.
It’s always good for us
James Wan graduated from The Cobretti School with an MBA Masters in Management and Supervision of Killer Puppets in 2012, directed Dead Silence, an adaptation of his dissertation, and produced Annabelle. Everything OK. It worked (clearly) and there was even a sequel. Now to do something more complicated, he abandons the usual curse and instead connects with this other softie to kiss it all, Jason Blum, together they envision The Killer Doll himself, technologically instead of magically, but mostly from the side seen and experienced by the producers. Since then he has been a lover of meta-jokes, he lets a director manipulate like a puppet stage.
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M3gan wants to be exactly the remake of Child’s Play without paying anyone the royalties. So everything changes, leaving the idea intact at heart, which gave this film personality, that self-deprecating attitude combined with a serious critique of consumerism and the way society tramples people. However, as we live in the years of corporate identity and company cult, nothing is more fun than seeing the whole story from the point of view of managers, secretaries, colorful offices where you don’t have to wear a suit and tie and global career aspirations in the toy industry.
Jason Blum and some underpaid interns at James Wan’s Master’s graduation ceremony
M3gan is the crazy level AI doll that the protagonist invented so she wouldn’t have much to do in her free time…. The aim is to revolutionize the toy industry after the previous attempt (a kind of creepy Furby) was copied by the competition. M3gan, on the other hand, cannot be duplicated as it has very advanced technology. It’s only to be tested on one little girl: and who better to test than her little niece, who was completely traumatized by a car accident that killed her parents? Who better than her for a morbid bond through which the doll can wreak havoc?
humiliation
Gerard Johnstone, the puppet in Wan’s hands, has seen all the right movies and not only knows how to pull off a fun script well, but he also enjoys activating M3gan himself with the same setting that activates Robocop, and then rises in an ending so classic that it brings tears to the eyes, in which the monster becomes more and more monstrous (the most attentive will also notice that the means to end the final confrontation has also been adopted by Robocop). Obviously the Terminator is in the middle, so the end result is halfway between Chucky and an episode of Black Mirror. And of course it works.
Knowing how to disrupt by bringing an inanimate object to a standstill
You don’t have to split hairs, of course. Nothing is really solid in M3gan in terms of writing. The artificial intelligence, which theoretically causes a massacre because it performs its task of protecting the child too literally, it is not known why it enjoys it, scaring people, playing cat and mouse, them on all fours like a dog is chasing or found in the house in the dark, lit by the moon, playing the piano just to scare. He has an innate, fearsome sense of position, employs creative gadgets in his kills, and then develops ridiculous motives. And let’s be clear: That’s okay! It’s the great tradition of B-movies that Wan and Blum know how to deal with, fun first.
have fun
If anything, it’s more important to put Amie Donald (age: 11) in the M3gan costume to make her move realistically, but also very badly, and then have her do ballets and stunts (again: why? Because it’s fun does, therefore). what counts is the mockery of the non-existent ethics of the toy companies, the ruthless cynicism of the protagonist of the good aunt, who actually has no interest in her niece’s feelings, but only needs a guinea pig. In short, it takes a subtle sense of irony, coupled with some gore (too bad he never has the desire and guts to show cruelty), anything like The Killing Doll to say that consumer society makes people worse doing, it puts them on the ropes and instills needs (to consume, but in this case career and work) that are sins that must be discounted at some point. And then make them pay.
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