Ariel and Morgan blast off into Barbarella and its gleefully campy vision of sex in the far future, starting with that iconic zero-gravity striptease over the opening credits. They dig into the Excessive Machine scene, where a device built to kill by pleasure meets its match, and what the film’s playful attitude toward desire says about power and liberation. It’s a look at how a psychedelic sci-fi romp turned orgasms into a weapon against the machine.
