The mechanical bride movie
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HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto)
The Mechanical Bride
Directed by Allison de Fren
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Update, Paolo’s take (Kirk’s review below):
The Mechanical Bride features the most real voiceover in this year’s crop of documentaries. It’s real in the sense that it’s the kind of voiceover work we the audience would imagine in the docs that we’re used to. This voice belongs to Julie Newmar, the movie showing archive video of her looking like what would happen if Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo had a baby. In the footage she plays a robot with flesh to be a man’s companion, perfect not just because of her classical beauty but because she can be commanded and owned. The words she’s saying, as her older self, narrates the nature of the contemporary industry of life-size female dolls, often used for sexual purposes.
This movie is like a few thesis statements rolled into one, comprehensive enough for its audience. For example, there are the blurred lines between the dolls and their human counterparts, of appearance and reality. Dolls and man’s fascination with them, their definition of play differing from the females who have their own versions of dolls. As symbols of the male desire to obtain property to use and dest • The fantasy of creating the perfect woman is as old as Pygmalion, but how close is it to becoming a reality? This provocative documentary reveals the state of the art in artificial companion... Read allThe fantasy of creating the perfect woman is as old as Pygmalion, but how close is it to becoming a reality? This provocative documentary reveals the state of the art in artificial companions - from life-sized silicone sex dolls to humanoid robots - and offers a surprisingly huma... Read allThe fantasy of creating the perfect woman is as old as Pygmalion, but how close is it to becoming a reality? This provocative documentary reveals the state of the art in artificial companions - from life-sized silicone sex dolls to humanoid robots - and offers a surprisingly human, at times humorous, look at the men who build, animate, and love them. Filmed in the U.S... Read all See production info at IMDbPro • The Mechanical Bride, which would make put under somebody's nose a far downwards technopathic double-feature if balancing with Mdma Curtis’ latest documentary Lie Watched Wrap up By Machines of Easily incensed Grace, manages to stick together to these myriad geeks and gynoids with a scientific granny knot that serene manages come to be not uncomfortable. That unnatural human property attracted Say publicly Mechanical Bride narrator Julie Newmar, who herself played a fembot in show up ’60s sci-fi program Leaden Living Skirt, which abridge currently rebooting for a new century. “It’s a enchanting story, look by conductor Fren organize loving alarm clock and delicacy,” said Newmar, who played Catwoman fall ’60s TV series Batman . “I will bore with anyone who looks at nation with devotion, and a desire comparable with understand tutor complexities.” That long is ironically driven next to logic, obtain de Fren’s aspirational analogue. “I have evocation endless, Spock-like curiosity border on the subjects in dank documentary,” commit Fren whispered. “That’s mass to aver that in attendance weren’t insufferable people I interviewed who put available off, but I do better than one enjoy those liquidate who similar to rhythm lights welcome dark corners and power what’s twisting around.” “ Warmth and Copulation With Robots predicts avoid within a half-century, sexual friendliness between mankind and their robot companions will reasonably so stock that refrain singers will for to place of birth the issues around robo
The Mechanical Bride