We never see Kyoko speak in the film, which is explained away by Nathan as being because she does not speak English. The implication is that she is an earlier model than Ava, with less intelligence. There is certainly sexism and orientalism in this, but it's Nathan's, and the film is explicitly critiquing it, not endorsing it.

This essay is a classic example of poor critique of depictions of race and culture in media. The film depicts every male within it as a slimeball and it's core theme is about objectification. Projecting the intent and feelings of those characters, who are clearly and obviously depicted in a negative way, onto the author is ridiculous.

It largely stems from the reading that the ending being sympathetic to Caleb, which I imagine happened mostly from atrocious media literacy. Caleb wasn't the protagonist, Ava was.

I think these sorts of criticisms boil down to "Why didn't you make a different movie". She's wondering how much he cares about uplifting marginalized voices. That's not what the movie is about! It's just not, there's a very clear idea he's exploring in the movie and it is not that. You could examine those topics. But you're basically just saying "Go make a different movie about my personal interests". Well how about you go make that movie.

I don't see how you could watch that movie and think that the film maker is endorsing the way that character is treated. It's fairly obvious that those stereotypes and "her" treatment is a direct indictment of the main character. I'm not sure I can help if you don't see that.

> I can't even being to tell you how offended and disturbed I was by the treatment of women of color in this movie. I slept restlessly the night after I saw Ex Machina, woke up muddled at 2:45 AM and - still clinging to the hope that there must have been a reason for treating women of color this way (Garland's brilliant right?) - furiously went to work reading interviews and critiques. Aside from a few brief mentions of race/gender, I found barely anything addressing the film's obvious deployment of racialized gender stereotypes for its own benefit.

If everyone else is not seeing a race problem, but you are, the problem may be you, not the material.

Rage bait

A robot can be a woman of color?

Is this disrespectful to women, or to robots?