mrs2cats I really want to see 'Ex Machina', but the DVD is a tenner so I will wait until it comes round on telly.
Re the article....
"So I was dismayed when after submitting the script, I discovered I wasn’t alone in writing an A.I. movie. There was “Her” (2013), which tracked a love affair between a man and his computer’s sentient operating system. Next was “Transcendence,” in which Johnny Depp uploaded his mind to the Internet. In “Automata” and “Chappie,” servile robots acquired independence. In “Big Hero 6,” an A.I. befriends a boy. And in “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” out next week, a robot tries what we all know they’re secretly planning: the destruction of mankind.
Among filmmakers there was an A.I. party going on, to which we were late. Worse yet, someone else had shown up in the same dress. Another film had freakish similarities to “Ex Machina.” It was called “The Machine” and also starred a female-presenting A.I. named Ava."
Aside from the fact AI was the most depressing film I have ever watched it is interesting that all (almost all) of the films mentioned are about men, sometimes with a 'female' robot, who sometimes becomes a love interest. A bit like dear old Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. So our obsession with machines seem to be less 'our' obsession and more men's obsession and sometimes that obsession spills over into making machine's in 'female' image.
Which is, of course the great strength of 'Humans' because the really key figures we are almost all talking about are the female robots, one the archetypal mum and home maker and one the sex object. Not sure what it all means except that maybe men are a bit predicable! And that it seems to work well to have female characters who can be bossed around and objectified and no one seems to mind, except dear old Leo, who we almost want to view as a robot because of his associate with them (or at least I do, not sure what was going on in the loo there with the electric current in his leg!).
Timri Black Mirror just sounds awful, so glad I missed it! 