Ex Machina
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- Miguex0
More on the "Juvet Landscape Hotel" in Norway.
- monospaced0
That dance scene, though.
- hans_glib0
saw it last night
loved it - so dark and fucked up. the last two minutes were unnecessary though, defused the tension somewhat.
- Hayoth1
I thought this was a pretty good movie. I was kind of sad the tech ceo died. If you are bored, go.
- feel0
- inteliboy0
Can't wait to see it!
- 2002-2
- nb0
Pretty good, it's fun to think about AI.
Spoiler alert**
I REALLY wanted the ending to be different. So, Caleb was on his mission to break Ava out, and then Nathan figures it out, but then they SHOULD have had a big discussion about it. It would've been much better if it ended with a big philosophical argument about the value of one (or a dozen) AI's freedom when weighed against the existence of all mankind. Nathan would gradually convince Caleb that he can't let the AI free because it will be the end of the human race! It's obvious that the technology isn't ready.
Then they could've have had a great ending where Nathan convinces Caleb to go back and shut down Ava. And then he gets flown back to work and the movie ends with him at his desk living out his life in silent horror, as he now knows that the end of mankind is just a few version revisions away. And he has no one to confide in.
Because that is what we all know (in the real world) about AI. Once you build it, game over for humans.
Would've been a much better ending.
ALSO it would have avoided the most glaring plot problem: Why did Caleb reprogram the door locks as a set up for the next day? Why not simply reprogram them and break Eva out that night while Nathan was passed out?
- monNom0
Oh man. I really liked this film. Been think about I for weeks.
Spoiler alert:
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.