Posted by quoderat on Friday Mar 30, 2018

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. I was taken aback by all the supposedly smart people who utterly failed to understand Ex Machina, probably the best movie in the past decade. This person is wrong about Ava, though; she is just as human as we are, but with robot parts.