Pris, played by Hannah, is "a basic pleasure model", the futuristic equivalent of the inflatable sex-doll.
Meanwhile, he developed a love affair with Daryl Hannah, the Hollywood non-bimbo who played the sexiest replicant alive as 'Basic Pleasure Model' in the cult movie, Bladerunner.
As for the posed ranks of Kardashian women, it's unclear whether they were deliberately meant to resemble replicants (basic pleasure model), but it certainly appeared to be a tableau in desperate need of a Blade Runner.
With nil insight – into the sex industry or anything else – you might conclude Pimp is a film for men who get their kicks watching Dyer strut around leering at topless women who – in the parlance of the film – look like "the basic pleasure model".
Mead proceeded to give Joel the Voight-Comp test and discovered that Joel was a pleasure model.
Nathan playing god, Ava's confinement, and poor, mute, Kyoko (who, in the world of "Blade Runner," would be a "basic pleasure model") are all examples of the chilling world "Ex Machina" paints -- a world devoid of empathy.
