{"id":39967,"date":"2023-10-26T00:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39967"},"modified":"2023-06-04T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T03:42:54","slug":"margaux-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/26\/margaux-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaux (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It is unbelievable how ridiculous \u201cMargaux\u201d is. When you approach a movie about a technologically advanced house that decides to off the residents, you can expect some level of absurdity but Steven C. Miller really goes for the throat, here. \u201cMargaux\u201d watches like a feature length approach of \u201cThe Ultrahouse 3000\u201d sketch from \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d; except it\u2019s not as funny and ten times as idiotic. At least \u201cThe Ultrahouse 3000\u201d was a satire and dark comedy, but \u201cMargaux\u201d plays everything deadpan. Director Miller plays so much of what unfolds with such a straight face, you have to eventually wonder if he\u2019s just jerking the audience around.<\/p>\n

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A bunch of twenty somethings playing college kids go to stay at an advanced house for the weekend to get drunk and party. The house happens to be operated by an AI named Margaux. Margaux is at first a submissive computer system catering to their every desires but eventually she becomes so overbearing that she eventually decides to murder them. As they fight to survive, Margaux begins to evolve, and the battle becomes more and more complicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cMargaux\u201d is too serious to take as dark comedy, and too silly to take as a dramatic approach to this kind of concept. Are we supposed to fear Margaux when she\u2019s spouting Gen Z slang non-stop? And what is her master plan for this entire film? Is she murdering these people to learn how to copy them? Is she murdering them because she views them as inferior? How did she learn to create human clones? What is the technology involved in that? Is the liquid symbolic for semen? Why would she lure people to her house just to kill them? Has anyone else ever reported this huge complex computer to the authorities? Who or what built, and programmed Margaux?<\/p>\n

Why build such an advanced, technologically incredible house that can build artificial environments and produce its own marijuana, just to turn it in to an Air BnB for rich college students? Why did she decide to draw out the weekend rather than knocking them all off with immediacy? Was she in love with the primary protagonist Drew? That and so many more questions are left dangling in the air after the movie closes. And considering the laugh out loud ridiculous final scene, there\u2019s just so much more that is never explored in the screenplay. I\u2019m all for ambiguity, but there\u2019s literally nothing explained about Margaux or the house to us that can give us a reason to become invested in the narrative. As for the characters, they\u2019re all basically cannon fodder, despite the best efforts by the cast.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the stoner, the alpha male, the queen bee, and the geeky girl. The latter is played by Madison Pettis who is just impossible to buy as this reluctant book worm. Nothing about \u201cMargaux\u201d makes any real sense or has any rationale behind it. Things just happen, and Margaux just creates these random abilities out of nowhere to move the narrative along at director Miller\u2019s convenience. Steven C. Miller is usually a very good director, but he\u2019s so much better than \u201cMargaux.\u201d A movie about the inherent horrors of a sentient AI is old hat, even with today\u2019s discussion about the rise of AI. It\u2019s a shame \u201cMargaux\u201d never aspires to be anything more than a schlocky tech gone awry camp fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is unbelievable how ridiculous \u201cMargaux\u201d is. When you approach a movie about a technologically advanced house that decides to off the residents, you can expect some level of absurdity but Steven C. Miller really goes for the throat, here. \u201cMargaux\u201d watches like a feature length approach of \u201cThe Ultrahouse 3000\u201d sketch from \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[477,2762,703,906,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-39967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-horror","tag-killer-robots","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39969,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39967\/revisions\/39969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}