tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post4536210438754666039..comments2023-11-03T03:45:54.322-04:00Comments on Fox Home: Film - Ex Machina - Spoiler FreeFoxessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-35088753979797342472015-05-10T13:29:52.611-04:002015-05-10T13:29:52.611-04:00Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer girlfriend a...Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer girlfriend and Buffy bots should be considered as well as the girlfriend bot in Serenity - Firefly.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-45765936735506964242015-05-10T11:17:08.306-04:002015-05-10T11:17:08.306-04:00I'm going to be watching HER again very soon (...I'm going to be watching HER again very soon (in between indexing, surely one of the most horrid jobs involved with the writing-and publishing of a book!), to check again the conclusions I came to about what the film was saying about men's expectations of entitlement to the perfect woman, when they themselves are probably less than 4's on their own scale of desireability. Of course, it's not only men in HER who are convinced of their entitlement to the hottest and most successful partner, no matter how mediocre they themselves are, but the focus is on the lead who is male.<br /><br />The differences between HER and MACHINA are more and less subtle. But what the two have in common is striking, because it's the very smartness of the script, and how the writer-director gets to have things both ways -- exploiting the sexualized feminine -- even, as with HER, not having a body of the primary feminine present at all -- while negating it in favor of the feminine's own agency of action.<br /><br />It's difficult not to think of all these films as in dialogue with each other, even rather knowingly by their creators.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-43156400094773373522015-05-09T17:54:51.969-04:002015-05-09T17:54:51.969-04:00The movies Her, Lucy, Under the Skin (incidentally...The movies Her, Lucy, Under the Skin (incidentally all three featuring Scarlett Johansson as the female disturbance of the Force) and the television series, Orphan Black, are an interesting contemporary cluster of dramatic screen releases, to which Ex Machina belongs. Why these particular dramas, why now?<br /><br />Despite having I'm not sure titles such as A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Let the Right One In belong with the above title though, because they are out-and-out vampires, whereas Lucy is a mutation and Under The Skin's central figure is an alien, by which the 'feminine' and the 'female' are under scrutiny.<br />Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-14092778282611677722015-05-09T17:52:41.152-04:002015-05-09T17:52:41.152-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.com