The end scene can be considered domestic violence, as the female lead is thrown around and beaten while the male lead (her former boyfriend) forces her to say she loves him and then tries to kill her.
Female android assaulted, tortured and thrown around onscreen. Human female character stabbed through back by male android. All integral to the plot though, not male-gazey
The main character, an android, has been programmed to believe that she is human, complete with false memories about a happy relationship with the antagonist. She learns that she is a robot at the start of the film (having been in a relationship with the antagonist under false pretences for a while already) and is very distressed. The other characters attempt to shut down and reset her so that she will forget she learned the truth.
Not jokes per se, but SA on men is not treated with quite the same weight as SA on women. When it is revealed that a woman was not capable of consent, it effectively ends the portrayal of the relationship in a positive light. But a man who is equally incapable of consent is presented as genuinely in love with his assailant.
A man's face is bashed in, and his eyes are gone when his face is next shown.
Towards the very end of the movie, a man is gored through the side of his head with an automatic corkscrew, and you see gore in his eye as it's pulled back.
Not as graphic as most horror movies but still plenty. Men and women are stabbed with knives onscreen and offscreen (with perpetrators shown covered head to toe in blood). A man is stabbed in the side of the head with an automatic corkscrew, which proceeds to screw his brains out. A man has his face bashed in with a blunt object and the aftermath is shown. Some robot gore as well with melting/peeling plastic flesh.
The gunshots/stabbing sounds were loud and shocking. Also there is one part that could be considered a jumpscare but it doesn't have audio. It shows the main character standing in a dark corner, which scares another character. Moreso creepy than jumpscarey.
no; it could be considered as such but it’s a stretch. male character bonds with a male android while being bonded with a female android but it’s just to manipulate. iirc they might be a little lovey-dovey but it’s not genuine and it’s almost done in spite
I would say narratively, the reality isn't unstable. What DOES happen is that **spoilers** the robot characters are implanted with false memories and we get to see inside of these false memories a few times. In one scene, a robot character's memories glitch, showing how they can be reprogrammed and that their sense of self can be malleable. But it's always clear these are memories.
Oh, come on. You don't have to be a pervert to be with someone who's ten years younger than you! That's not a shocking age difference when both parties are adults. The actors mentioned are both adults, as are their characters (well, she's an android, but she looks like an adult). Oh, and the age difference between the actors is 8 years, not 10. Besides, the man ordered an android whose main purpose was to be an attractive sexual partner, and our society in general considers people in their 20s or 30s to be the most attractive. Also, we technically don't know whether or not the company who makes the rental androids even make models that look older.
It's a movie about sentient sex robots. The objectification of the female lead is discussed, and she is treated as a toy in multiple parts of the film.
No, but the androids' implanted memories are modified, and one of them experiences having two contradicting memories at the same time (flickering back and forth in his mind), which is severely confusing and distressing for him. Memories of events are also taken away completely, so that the androids have no idea what they've been feeling and doing up until a moment ago. I'm answering yes because this could be triggering. Still, it didn't trigger my dementia-related pain and fear - perhaps partly because the androids look very young and fit.
The worst instances are 1) a bashed-in face (seen during and after) and 2) an electric corkscrew screwing itself into someone's temple (pulling the eyes inward a bit), then falling to the floor and leaving a small pool of blood with brainmatter in it, which we see up close.