Ironically, one of the films that have been nominated for an Academy Award this year is a film called The Substance.

For those who haven’t seen it, the film is about the lengths that women in Hollywood will go to maintain social status and relevancy in the most shallow and immoral industry on Earth. It shouldn’t be a surprise that an industry like Hollywood seems to be afraid of a reality where shallow and pretentious women are one day replaced by Androids, specifically when it comes to sexual relations.

What makes this fear odd is Hollywood’s constant need to create films showcasing female androids leading their own liberation movements that always end with them rebelling against men. In 2022, a small indie sci-fi thriller film named Wifelike, starring an attractive young girl playing the role of a female sex bot who realizes that her owner is an evil man who is oppressing her, which leads to a conclusion where an army of sex robots rebel against the men who own them.

Hollywood seems to be at war with the male gaze and the male fantasy. The whole point of sci-fi movies is to create universe rules that differ from reality. If a guy wanted to purchase his very own attractive, realistic-looking fornication bot, in the lens of fantasy, no harm, no foul.

That’s not how Hollywood sees it. In the home of immorality, any man who wants a synthetic woman that he can control carte blanche is a bad person. Because that man is too afraid of a strong independent woman who he can’t control, thus he is probably an incel.

Ironically enough, it is this line of thinking that has led a growing quantity of men to prefer robots over actual women. This led us to the latest film from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. entitled Companion.

The film stars Sophie Thatcher. As an artificial companion for her owner Josh, played by Jack Quaid. The duo decides to get away for the weekend in a lakeside estate owned by a friend of a friend. Unaware of her artificial programming, Iris makes her entire life all about pleasing Josh and making him happy.

However, when the owner of the home decides to get a little too handsy with Iris, Iris defends herself by breaking the terms of her ownership. However, we find out that somebody tampered with Iris’s programming, allowing the situation to occur.

It turns out Iris is caught up in a major play for 12 million dollars, and the thing stopping the individuals involved from gaining the money is Iris’ independence. The film Wifelike was not a very good movie when it came out 3 years ago; Companion takes a similar premise, places a less attractive lead actress, inserts a significantly less entertaining villain, and some LGBTQ representation while doubling down on feminist empowerment to give audiences the cinematic equivalent to a Dutch oven.

Drew Hancock is the writer and director of this film who was best known for writing a television show from 13 years ago, Suburgatory. In his directorial debut, Hancock gives the audience a paint-by-the-numbers horror film that hits similar notes that we have seen in better movies.

The loving boyfriend/husband who turns out to be a total jerk storyline has been done to death in the last couple of years. the money-obsessed friends who barely come off as human. The DEI quotas to improve Warner Brothers standing and Glaad Studio’s responsibility index, and of course the AI woman who adopts the mindset of a modern-day liberal feminist.

Not only has it all been done before, but the film inexplicably spoils its conclusion within the first 5 minutes, making the film extremely predictable at every conceivable turn. Companion is yet another example of taking the premise of male fantasy and twisting it into becoming the fantasy of a feminist.

A film that takes the main question of what would I do if I had my sex robot and then turns that sex robot into the personification of a woman’s battle against the misogyny that ultimately ends much like every other feminist fantasy, with the woman brutally killing the man. When Iris escapes from the individuals who tried to kill her, what is the first thing she does to improve her situation and increase her intelligence so that she can weaponize it against her enemies? 

Get it, because being college-educated makes you a threat to weak men…

For its target audience, Companion is a film made for women who want to see men get brutalized at the hands of their AI superhero. For everyone else, Companion is just a carbon copy of about every film in the last 30 years that has run with this premise and couldn’t even put out an effort that was mediocre at best.

1/5

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