In the short film "Be Right Back," the main characters, Martha and Ash, are a young couple. We can tell by the actions of Ash that he is really tech savvy. He relies heavily on technology throughout the beginning of the film. Martha even throws things at him in order to get his attention. When Ash went away on the business trip, I feel like he was probably texting and driving and that's how he got into an accident. When the police show up to break the bad news to Martha, she was devastated and became extremely depressed.
In the long run, Martha soon discovers that she is pregnant. When she finds out, she remembers the app that one of her friends recommended to help her through the grieving process. The app allows her to talk to Ash and it even has his actual voice. When she talks to Ash she realizes how much she misses him and she wishes that there was some way that she could physically see him. That's how she discovers that there is a way for her to upgrade. When she finally meets the "new Ash" she later discovers that he is nothing like the real one. He doesn't really have any emotions, and he does things as he is demanded. He is not a REAL PERSON! He couldn't show the type of feelings and emotions that the real Ash had. I think that she realized that you can't turn someone, or in this case something, into something that it's not.
Finally, she has her daughter. Instead of telling her daughter who Ash really is, she keeps him locked up in the attic, and she allows her daughter to go up and visit him on the weekends. I think that this was the best way for her to grieve. She came to realize that the new Ash could never be the old one, and that she was going to have to cope with it.
We don't get to see much of 'old Ash', but it seems like he was himself a bit distant, and not necessarily the most emotionally expressive person. Could it be that we are holding Ash 2.0 up to a higher standard of emotional expression than we hold the old Ash to?
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