Maddd Science Welcome to a very special Saturday edition of Maddd Science. Today's topic: Ex Machina, a quite good three-hander about guys being creeps. Some spoilers: Ava: Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland, 2014) Dangerous Characters, Sady Doyle At this point, you can guess that I’m fairly impatient with a lot of the feminist discourse around Ex Machina. To use the critic Alex West’s formulation, there’s a difference between a violent movie and a movie about violence, and there’s also a difference between a sexist movie and a movie about sexism. We see truly terrible things over the course of this movie [...] But the movie is asking us to be repulsed and disturbed by these images; to think about how they reflect on the fungibility of female flesh, or the degradation of female labor, in our own lives.
Ex Machina
Ex Machina
Ex Machina
Maddd Science Welcome to a very special Saturday edition of Maddd Science. Today's topic: Ex Machina, a quite good three-hander about guys being creeps. Some spoilers: Ava: Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland, 2014) Dangerous Characters, Sady Doyle At this point, you can guess that I’m fairly impatient with a lot of the feminist discourse around Ex Machina. To use the critic Alex West’s formulation, there’s a difference between a violent movie and a movie about violence, and there’s also a difference between a sexist movie and a movie about sexism. We see truly terrible things over the course of this movie [...] But the movie is asking us to be repulsed and disturbed by these images; to think about how they reflect on the fungibility of female flesh, or the degradation of female labor, in our own lives.