How old is the myth of Pygmalion anyway?.. Boiled down to its very essence, the myth tells the story of a person that created the ideal lover.
Of course we're still seeing the Frankenstein Complex. (Blade Runner, Westworld, The Stepford Wives, The Borg in Star Trek) but now there's the added tone of eroticism. We all know sex sells. But in the aforementioned movies, the robot is no longer just an artificial creation meant to carry out the labours of a man. The robot is now a receptacle for the affections of an increasingly alienated mankind. In Westworld and The Stepford Wives, we see mechanical targets for a misogynist backlash against women by an ever more emasculated male population in the wake of the sexual revolution...
