Theme analysis ex machina movie

As a human component of Nathan’s Turing test of a robot, Caleb develops a close relationship with Ava, and as time passes by he begins to learn Nathan’s hidden agendas and his darker sides with how he treats Ava and his assistant, Kioko who he later finds out is a robot too. This film revolves around many themes such as artificial intelligence, technology getting out of control, and gender. This essay examines the theme of gender and how male-dominated societies, as well as biology, construct the identities of males and females. This movie demonstrates great interest in the organization of society through its form and content and how gender roles are constructed and handed down for a thousand years.

It is well known that almost all societies believe that men are stronger than women and they deserve all the respect therein while the same societies construct females as objects that have no voice and can be tossed around by men. The fact that his robots are all females makes a meaningful sense, basically functioning as slaves and sex toys. He creates these robots to the extent that Ava has a “hole”- his word- and in the right place it shows a feminine appearance that exists to massage male egos (Garland,00: 46:49). Nathan’s treatment of objectifying robots is a metaphor for the way society treats women as objects, and it is from this perspective that Nathan created his robots. Nonetheless, neither of the male characters; Nathan or Caleb comes off very well.

Nathan is a user and a bastard who makes excuses about sexuality as a necessity for consciousness. Caleb treats her as an object, something lacking life and inferior, the same society represents women. Also, the setting is in a secluded part of the world, in the middle of a forest where it is difficult for one to escape. Later on, as the film develops, there are skeletons of female robots strung up in a cabinet and deactivated. Since Nathan views them as non-human, he has solely desensitized from them and perceived them as machines. This scenario reveals a good example of women trapped in a male-controlled society, that their male counterparts are only using them for their satisfaction. She also uses media to complete her seduction of Caleb and the audience with her body language as well as her personality and voice.