The Role Of Women In Ava In Ex Machina

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in Pennsylvania, he encourages Nicki to audition for the show. Again, the film depicts Nicki, as a weak woman who is obsessed with sex. Lastly, another instance where women are depicted with a negative connotation is when the pornographer that Max gets in contact with to find out the truth about Videodrome, is a female. Even though this movie was aired in the 1980’s, and women did not have the voice that they have today, it is these types of movies that set a precedent for other movies to follow. When first watching the movie, it seems to just be about a program that attempts to take over the brains of human, which extremely futuristic. However, when analyzing the role of women in this movie, it portrays women in a peculiar light. In the movie …show more content…

In the movie, Ava is a robot built by Nathan. Nathan is the CEO of Bluebook, which a popular search engine. Amusingly enough, Nathan builds Ava by using information that he obtains from those who use the website. Nathan decides to use the information from his users because he wants to emulate the behavior of a human in Ava. So, he uses users search history as a way to determine human thought and embody that with Ava. Using the Turing the test, Caleb must determine if Ava is able to manipulate him into thinking that she is not AI. However, after a while of Caleb and Ava being together, she falls in love with him. While Ava is a robot made of robot parts, her face is not robotic. In fact, Ava’s face represents that of a human, and her face is very attractive to the human eye. In the movie, sex supersedes the reality that Ava is a robot. This notion is explained when Caleb finds out that Nathan is going to reprogram Ava and take away her personality. This finding is detrimental to Caleb, because at this point in the movie, he has feelings for Ava. Since Caleb does not want to lose Ava, he comes up with a plan to get rid of Nathan and for him to run away with Ava. Everything Caleb does to save his relationship with Ava, a robot, is what two humans would do. Sadly enough, we find out that Nathan had everything recorded and this was part of his plan. Nathan hoped that Ava would be convincing enough to …show more content…

In fact, these movies are in two different time zones. A reoccurring theme in the movies is that women are identified by sex. Each robot in the films have one thing in common, they manipulate men through sex using their feminine appearance, regardless of their masculine attributes. In fact, Kathleen Richardson believes that these depictions of women robots through AI are just movies knit picking human women. To elaborate, in the movies, the robots do not represent a woman as a whole entity, only certain characteristics (Richardson). This speaks against society, as if society is trying to insinuate that women as a package are not that great, but women with the characteristics that coincide with societal expectation are the perfect specimens. In this case, the perfect specimen is the robot in the AI movies. More so, the robots in the film regardless of their evil nature; for instance, in EVE of destruction, even though she is purely evil and wants to destroy, the robot itself is very sexual. The robot can be depicted as strong, smart, etc. but each robot tends to have this attractive body and face. The movies of the past times, such as Videodroma, have set the precedent for movies to portray women as objects and limit their role in society by disguising the women as robots to impose certain societal

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