Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Scifi
Duration: 108 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / United States
Directed by: Alex Garland
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander
IMDb score:
7,7 (634.975)
Releasedate: 21 January 2015
Ex Machina plot
"There is nothing more human than the will to survive"
Caleb, a 26-year-old programmer who works for the largest Internet company in the world, wins a competition that allows him to spend a week in the country residence of Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. However, when Caleb arrives at the remote location, he discovers that he must take part in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must deal with the first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
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Actors and actresses
Caleb Smith
Ava
Nathan Bateman
Kyoko
Jay
Lily
Jasmine
Jade
Katya
Amber
Reviews & comments
Demeter
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- 262 messages
- 1671 votes
Given most of the comments for me, this movie is unfortunately not fully understood. I read something about sex robots, a psychopath and social media. The main focus here is what artificial intelligence actually is. When can you speak of self-awareness and how can you recognize it? Is it emotions you see, or is it deception? And what are the consequences when the point is reached that AI has a consciousness of its own? They try to answer these questions and that results in a very intriguing film. The best AI movie so far.
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Lavrot
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- 941 messages
- 0 votes
Rarely seen a film that leaves me as cold as the bleak chill between the protagonists in Ex Machina. In everything this cinematic exercise took the form of a complete failure. Nothing, absolutely nothing came out quite right. Things go wrong right from the start.
After winning some "game", a rather unworldly character finds himself within a poo and a fart in a secluded bungalow of the host, who is also AI guru and organizer of that "game." Within this forced feeling isolated and extremely cold situation, these two people are at the mercy of each other for a week. There are no really profound or ice-breaking conversations and in the human field nothing becomes price data about the personal history of these two gentlemen.
Then soon the monkey comes out of the sleeve. The Lonely Soul wasn't exactly the winner of a game, but rather chosen by the AI guru to fulfill the ultimate test in his latest project.
Ava, robot in a woman-like construction without skin but with a human face is allowed to show up as an object in the Turing test: human or machine? There is still a robot woman walking around, but with skin and hair, even with a strip of pubic hair. There is nothing and nobody else. No contact with the outside world.
Anyway, the week flies by and the gentlemen learn nothing personally from each other, although it appears that the AI guru had collected some sneaky info, alias profile, characteristics and preferences of the chosen one; That selection had to have taken place somewhere, didn't it? The test passed and the surprising twist gets an unexpected twist.
There was still a bit of chatter about AI, about some typical human characteristics and such, but it wasn't much more than summing up some sentences from wikipedia.
No, this monstrosity is nowhere near a masterpiece like Gattaca.
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IH88
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- 9761 messages
- 3190 votes
“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.”
Ex Machina remains a unique film. An ominous sci-fi film mainly set in a sleek and modern home where four actors have to take care of the fireworks. It makes you feel like you are watching a play. A play that makes you think about the future of AI, which you as a viewer take seriously and where you have to (and want to) follow the story carefully.
The film has a philosophical and erotic undertone at times, and the Turing test is also well woven into the story. At first it seems to be Ava (Alicia Vikander) who is being tested, but you soon find out that things are a bit different. The relationship between Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and Ava is well built, and you feel as a viewer that at some point there must be an eruption due to all the suppressed emotions and double agendas that keep the characters hidden from each other. Isaac and Gleeson are great, but it's Vikander who excels as clinical robot Ava. She also gives Ava a soft and almost human side, but as a viewer you don't know until the end whether this is played or sincere. Special mention to Sonoya Mizuno, who doesn't say a word but does a good job. The ending is satisfying, and it actually pretty much sums up how the film and director Alex Garland view the future of AI. Ava will go into the ordinary world and will look down on us with an interested, admiring but also superior look. Ex Machina is an enchanting movie experience.
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