Did Dr. Amy Menser have a thing for Morgan?
Did anyone else get a lesbian vibe?
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I didn't. Felt more like a sisterly relationship to me.
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Everyone in the facility was using Morgan as a sex toy.
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I did. I interpreted Amy more as a pedo though.
shareI think it was pretty heavily implied, given Skip's comment that he wasn't really Amy's type too.
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I think it was pretty heavily implied, given Skip's comment that he wasn't really Amy's type too.
I don't think it was heavily implied, more of an undertone, but definitely there IMO. As you say, Skip's pointed comment about not being Amy's type - why have him describe the end of his brief whatever with Amy in that way, and with that little tinge of bitterness, as if there was someone else in the vicinity who WAS her type? It could also have contributed to his feelings of being creeped out by Morgan - he seems a bit less devoted than the rest.
It also creates a bit of irony that he himself ended up attracted to a robot.
Also, Amy is awfully impassioned in the scene where she's telling Morgan about the lake - it didn't come off as maternal or sisterly to me, more like a star-crossed lover describing a 'somewhere' where they can be free together. I'm not sure Amy herself even recognized the nature of her feelings...but we see the maternal/sisterly nature of Morgan's relationships with the other women, and the Amy connection just felt different to me.
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In the time since my earlier post on this thread, I've gotten the chance to read a draft of the script from January 2014. And one of the interesting things about it is that the romantic/sexual undertones of the Morgan/Amy relationship are more pointed in it than in the finished film. So people really aren't imagining things. It's there and was intended to be there, at one time a bit more obviously than it ended up being.
In the script, during Amy's visit to Morgan's enclosure in which she talks about the lake, Morgan is naked, and Amy is taking her own clothes off throughout the conversation. Morgan tells her that she doesn't have to do that, but Amy assures her, 'I want to.' Later, during Morgan's interview with the psychologist, reference is made to her 'date' with Amy. Morgan objects to the use of this term, but the doctor assures her, in his smarmy way, that it's just a figure of speech. There is also discussion at length about how Morgan expresses love that is very loaded, IMO, and Amy's name comes up a few times. There may be more, but that's just off the top of my head.
I certainly did. I also think Morgan reciprocated Amy's feelings. Amy was the only one Morgan didn't ruthlessly kill.
shareWell Amy wasn't killed by Morgan in the first place. Lee shot Amy. Anyway, I also felt Amy loves Morgan more than a friend or a sister.
shareI think that, while Amy was likely into women more than men, that she cared for Morgan deeply but not in that way. I do think that Morgan loved Amy like that though, but because she was misreading Amy's affection.
shareDidn't get this at all. Think this might be wishful thinking on your part, sir.
shareI kind of got that vibe but it may have been unintentional -- this film was kind of a mess, so it's hard to say if that was the character as written, or Rose Leslie's performance, or what.
shareI agree with you. It seems that everyone wants every woman to be a lesbian, do not forget that Morgan was only 5 years old in this movie. Having a sexual relationship with her would have been creepy no matter what.
shareYep definitely.
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