Review of Advantageous (2015) by Kris L — 04 Jun 2016

Got the point: oppressive capitalist patriarchy gets a second wind; males empowered by technology suck the souls from women and sell them vacuous youth and beauty as a ransom for their daughters' domestic and financial futures.

All worthy social criticism. But the film's resolution is regressive. The father embraces his "illegitimate" daughter. That's the resolution of The Scarlet Letter. Much better, it seems to me, are the futuristic dystopian resolutions of Her and Ex Machina, in which technology governed by male fantasy defeats its creators.