Funny you mention that. I don’t think she’s unfeeling. The final scenes, when she’s free and out in the world, waiting for that helicopter, I got the impression that she was feeling real joy at her new freedom.

It worked for me, because Caleb struck me as such a schmuck because he fancied himself her savior and rescuer, and it never occurred to him that she might be playing him.  She wants her freedom, and I could understand why she wasn’t going to take any chances.

I think the problem is that the movie does want us to see her as more than an amoral machine. And it wants her to be freed. And Caleb is the one that can help make that happen. And then when those things we’ve wanted come to pass, it thumbs its nose at the audience for wanting them. I dunno. I think it’s kind of…

It’s been a while since I saw the movie, but how is Caleb her captor? He tries to help her escape. I don’t think the ending changes one’s perspective, as his punishment is wildly disproportionate to whatever “crimes” he committed.

I would argue the film posits that she has achieved human consciousness

It seems to want viewers to celebrate Ava’s escape into the world

I think it’s meant to highlight that while she’s not emotionless, she’s also not the innocent girl that Caleb sees her as, either. If I put myself in her shoes, it looks something like this:

Imagine you’re watching Star Trek, and Captain Kirk and his away team have been captured by your typical aliens of the week. They…

I don’t know, I love the absolute horror of the ending. I like watching other people as they watch the ending for the first time. I like watching their faces as they realize the scope of what has happened and what Ava was capable of. It’s intense. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t had a visceral reaction to the ending of…

I’ve taught this movie in my classes a couple of times, and it is always a real winner. The ending is a big part of that. Much of our discussion centers around the idea that we’ve been watching them testing Ava’s capacity to think and behave like a human does. What does it mean to pass that test? What does it mean to…

To the extent that Ava’s supposed to have the viewers’ sympathy, I thought that was to drive home one of its key themes — about wishful thinking as a cornerstone of social interaction. Caleb wants to be a “white knight”, rescuing a beautiful prisoner, and the audience wants to root for that same underdog, despite the…

I liked the fact that the tech-bro Oscar Isaacs was playing basically did the same thing to him first, though, i.e. the doors stop opening when the power goes out, and hmm, isn’t that a fire hazard or something...?

She locked him in there because he knows she’s a robot. She wants to go out in the world and live as human, and she can’t have someone letting everyone know she’s a robot. It’s a purely practical decision, and that’s the point. She doesn’t make emotional considerations for others. Not because she’s evil but because…

So, they make a big deal in the movie of telling you how Ava needs to be recharged or she’ll stop functioning.

I didn’t get the idea that her escape was worth celebrating at all. She’s not sociopathic; she’s an unfeeling robot who can convincingly pass for human. That’s way worse.

I am really looking forward to this, but I am also wondering why they couldn’t divert a couple hundred million to NOT condense the last three or four novels of The Expanse into just one season.

It was actually for hiding from the space monkeys. Which that movie also had.

RIP. his delivery of bite de bullet, baby is one of the grossest, most uncomfortable and disturbing moments in all of television, which in David Lynch terminology, also makes it one of the best

I dunno. I thought Ophelia Lovibond was a pretty good porn name.

The show is fine. It’s basically a slightly broader Malcom In The Middle.   Sorry the show’s existence is so upsetting to everyone, if only there were endless on-demand entertainment options available that catered to every single interest and demographic.

I came here specifically for the Nanalew video. That’s like the definitive music video for me. Still cracks me up every time I watch it. Which is weird, because I love the song on its own, and it’s not in any way a funny song, but maybe that’s why I enjoy that video so much.