#WIFELIKE

[baeaisling]

“Wifelike” 2022 film

[phoenix]

Huh, I was not expecting Wifelike to be this horny of a movie...

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Wifelike

[pendingfeels]

Wifelike; 2022 — JRM, w/ Elena Kampouris

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Wifelike Movie Review - Not Much To Like

If you could buy a human-like AI wife, would you? Read our review of the 2022 movie "Wifelike" starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Elena Kampouris.

⭐⭐ Rating: 1.5 out of 5. The 2022 robot movie “Wifelike” is quite similar to the 2019 Josh Janowicz sci-fi thriller “Life Like,” but is far more mundane, sexist, and incoherent. While “Life Like” delves into the challenges faced by a wealthy couple when they purchase a male robot from a company that provides both male and female robots, “Wifelike” focuses on a company that exclusively caters to…

[tylostoma]

the apparition told me that if i don't walk around a museum gleefully holding hands with a guy again i'll be faced with three days of doom. it said that linking arms is also okay but only if i do the wifelike gesture of holding his arm with both hands. sorry i'm just repeating what it told me

[2uuno]

im confused... what's your gender and sexuality...?

im like if a woman was a man. like if a girl was a guy was a chick was a dude. like if someone married me id be their husband but i am inalienably wifelike. im the world's first cisgender trans person.

[phuljari]

incoming rant: the robotification of women

teri baaton mein aisa uljha jiya (2024) is among the latest movies in the genre of science fiction romance. it reminded me of an old itv show bahu hamari rajnikant (2016) , while i wasn't an avid watcher of the latter, i knew of it's existence. why did it remind of that particular sitcom? well, mainly because of the comedy. but it also reminded me of similar themes in english movies like ex machina (2015), wifelike (2022), archive (2020) and her (2013), which is surely a bit far fetched considering that in her, the ai never had a body. only a voice.

here, i think it's impertinent to also acknowledge male robots in indian cinema, like chitti from robot/enthiran (2010) and g.one from ra.one (2011) even though he wasn't an actual robot? i don't know if he classifies as one. so let's say, non-human, programming-based male entity (nhpbme). similar to samantha in her, a non-human, programming-based female entity (nhpbfe).

so yes, while male robots and nhpbme do exist in the sci-fi romance genre, it's the comparatively larger robotification of women that feeds the male gaze, and the patriarchy by an extention— which is ultimately problematic.

coming to the movie that i actually want to discuss, kriti sanon's sifra, in tbmauj, is the perfect lover, perfect bahu. why? she knows everything aaru (shahid kapoor) likes and wants. she has no chik-chik or tantrums like other girls. she can make cuisines from all around the world, can access everything on the internet quickly. she has perfect skin, perfect hair. probably doesn't age too. she is the dream girl of a typical man. she doesn't have her own opinions or problems, she serves him and him alone. no family of hers to care about, she can care about his family and their needs. the female gendering here acts like objectification.

the worst part of this movie was that it didn't do anything? since it was a comedy, it didn't delve deeper into the nuances of increasing technological reliance that humans have. i think it was probably meant as a warning— when sifra malfunctions and starts executing tasks that were deleted. but even at that, it fails because urmila's (dimple kapadia) company (so intelligently named) e-robots/robotex (something stupid like that), ends up launching her along with few other robots. only adds a dialogue which meant that you need to handle these robots responsibly. then, what was the point of all the testing they tried to do? placing her in different environments like india, when they don't really end up rethinking the whole idea or putting in more safety features? of course, there's no deeper meaning here. indian comedies don't really have subtext.

but it's perpetuates the same old concept of subservient women. rule-followers and caregivers. an image etched in stone. why do women ask– what do men want? men want this, an ideal version. have always wanted. fuelled by the unrealistic p*rn depictions. do they ever think what women want? aaru so casually tells off his friend who has a wife to look at how pathetic his own life is. he defends sifra's un-emotional response to a situation by attacking his friend's relationship asking if human women are any better?

it reminded me of wifelike (2022) where female robots are curated according to a person's need, a replication of their dead spouse. to love them, to serve them, to help them come out of grief. it's so funny to me how in tbmauj, sifra is shown to retain her feelings, getting jealous when aaru interacts with another woman despite getting reprogrammed; compared to how in wifelike, the robotic version of the human it was based on, always ended up leaving the husband because the human version never loved him.

isn't it interesting how female robots instantly get sexualised, and are depicted doing things that one would never ask their girlfriend or wife to do? these robots happily perform roles that are stereotypically feminine, wife-like. they're invented to put aside their feelings (if they have them) to take care of their human partners'. sifra cooks perfect food, emphasized by how many time aaru fired his maid for not cooking things the way he likes it. she probably doesn't have mood swings from periods because she's a robot. she doesn't eat, doesn't get out of shape. and most importantly, she doesn't age (cue: i'll get old but your lovers stay my age). as if the expectations from women aren't enough, that they're required to age gracefully, or best option— not age at all.

if you still don't get it, let me remind you how siri and alexa also end up on the same side of gender spectrum— female.

so the message is, guys, don't give up on your dream girl! you'll surely find a robot that satisfies all your needs! 🙄

men want perfect women, but women can't be robots. let's stop perpetuating the same image and setting unrealistic standards. real humans have real problems, deal with them.

[skitskatdacat63]

misc lore drop day 15/?

Okay even though I said in yesterday's post that their whole wife/husband thing is more about power than actual gender things. I must say. It is very fun to draw them in time period stereotypical feminine things, and the difference in how they feel about it. I think Fernando before he came king was very similar to Seb, like he doesn't care what he's "supposed" to wear or not wear, whatever is fine as long as it suits him. But once he becomes king, he's constantly hyper focused about how he's portraying himself. For example, he can't enjoy wearing earrings as much as he did before, because now instead of being a fun accessory, they have become a way to outwardly portray himself as "wifelike."

As I said yesterday, to some extent, Fernando has to present himself as wife-like. Even though to his people back home in Spain, he is *obviously* the one in charge, he still has to present himself a certain way at specific occasions. He def shows up to Austria very unkempt and frumpy at first, but then his advisors are like FERNANDO PLEASE THEY'RE GONNA GO BACK ON THE PACT!!!! After that, he has to start being a bit more like his pretty prince self. But again, instead of it feeling like he's being himself again, it's more like he's trapped in a very specific portrayal.

But it's made more hilarious when Seb himself does typically feminine things, but it actually suits him. Like, wow even though he's so pretty, he still has the vibe of emperor! He definitely carries around a hand fan, and such. That's just part of his whimsy. And Fernando wants to choke him out for it. Because 1. Hey what the hell man, why are you copying my old look!? 2. Why is he allowed to look like that and still keep his image intact 😞

[luminous-lavender]

The movie WifeLike is the exact future men want. That’s why they’re pushing so hard for AI. So they can have AI girlfriend slaves

[blackladisdestrcz]

Sleduji - watching Wifelike (Playstation 5/Netflix)

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WiFELIKE 📽 Sinopsis y Tráiler Español de España 🇪🇸

[moviesteve]

Wifelike https://bit.ly/454AMVN Wifelike is a sci-fi mishmash starring Elena Kampouris as a robowoman and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the cop overjoyed to have taken delivery of a lookie-likie replacement for his dead wife. It’s a mishmash and half, in fact, a little Step...

[pendingfeels]

Wifelike; 2022 + pt. 4 — JRM, w/ Elena Kampouris

[filmizleri]

Eşim Gibi - Wifelike

Eşim Gibi – Wifelike