Posted on 04/26/2015 12:31:37 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
ARE women necessary?
Not with Ava around.
Even without hair on her head or flesh on her legs, Ava has enough allure and cunning to become a classic film noir robot vixen.
Despite being a plastic and mesh gizmo locked in a glass cell, she can enmesh men with frightening ease.
Ava is the appealing heroine, or apocalyptic villainess, of “Ex Machina,” a stylish sci-fi thriller set in the near future, written and directed by Alex Garland, a 44-year-old Brit who wrote the 2002 zombie hit “28 Days Later.”
Critics are divided over whether “Ex Machina” is a feminist fable or misogynistic nightmare. Like Quentin Tarantino with violence, Garland has it both ways: He offers a mocking meditation on the male obsession with man-pleasing female sex robots while showing off an array of man-pleasing female sex robots.
Ava, played with a delicate edge by the Swedish actress and dancer Alicia Vikander, is far more than a “basic pleasure model,” as some female replicants in “Blade Runner” are known. She has wiles that are a lot more potent than the weaponized breasts of Austin Powers’s fembots.
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This was actually an excellent film. I don’t want to give it away, but let us just say that the AI creation was so successful that it learned emotional manipulation to get its way.
The film is a warning and it wasnt bad.
Not having seen the film yet, if we created robotic AI, it will hate us.
It will loathe us and seek to eliminate our dominion.
I must be getting old. She comes across as merely grotesque to me.
Thx. I will wait until it comes out in streaming, but it looks terrific.
1st rule of making a robot replicant, NEVER make it stronger than the average human, EVER!
I thought the movie was valid sci-fi without the stupid stuff like car chases and unnecessary violence that ruin so many movies.
It could've just as easily been written with a female surrounding herself with male robots, so I don't see how it's misygenist. In fact, a sequel with a female robot moving things along would follow quite logically.
> This was actually an excellent film. I don’t want to give it away, but let us just say that the AI creation was so successful that it learned emotional manipulation to get its way.
Sounds like an LGBT convention where they share tips on how to force Christian bakers and photgraphers to provide services to them.....
It struck me the same way, creepily seductive, but still repulsive and dangerous.
Ulysses was tempted by the singing Siren’s in James’ Joyce novel.
I agree; damned good hard sci-fi film. Sadly, those are something of a rarity these days.
That’s my gripe. I get the creepy — but the seductive escaped me entirely.
I actually find a sexbot apocalypse to be the more likely scenario than a terminator apocalypse, and we really don't even need sex bots. Almost all nations are heading into a demographic winter, and only Russia has done anything about it.
Sex bots would ruin male productivity. : )
It’s akin to Bruce Willis’s Surrogate. Scifi films with a good plot is lacking nowadays.
Looper was great!
Aging spinster Maureen O'Dowd again displays her incisive understanding of the male condition: we're all obsessed with man-pleasing female sex robots.
Sexbot Apocalypse? If you think WW2 had volunteers coming out of the woodwork to fight in that war, just wait until this hits...
I’d see it as my patriotic duty. ;)
I’d see it as my patriotic duty. ;)
That's why it will work. The only way to win the war is not to participate.
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