While Scott’s science-fiction films are vastly different from one another through their subgenres and visual design, their uniting factor—and thus, Scott’s stylistic unifier—is their emphasis on humanity.

In aligning flesh and metal, Ducournau opens up new ways to think about human identity in ways that elide gender entirely. The assemblages of man and machine in Titane assist in revealing to those still enamored with gender’s categorical power how stunningly fluid human embodiment truly is.