Ex Machina
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Oh man. I really liked this film. Been think about I for weeks.
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I think the whole thing really came down to that Oppenheimer quote. 'now I am become death destroyer of worlds'. The whole frame of reference changes in the movie at that point. You have an unrelatable asshole tech CEO who transforms into an everyman under immense pressure because the thing he invented turned out to be a doomsday machine. He sees the inevitability of AI but almost refuses to believe that the thing he's created is really intelligent, as it is so predatory and inhuman. In humans intelligence without emotion is considered psychopathic and that's basically what you're getting with Ava. I don't know how any person would cope wellwith that pressure, and it sort of preludes and contrasts the AI's superiority in the situation. She's just waiting him out as he's fraying at the edges.Even the interpretation of the setting switches. From keeping out outsiders who want to steal his secrets, to being a 200mi buffer zone because ava is to dangerous to allow out...
Great great movie.