Ex Machina

2014
15
1h 48m

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7.7/10

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Artificial Intelligence Psychological Thriller Drama Sci-Fi Thriller

A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

608K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

873

153

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Won 1 Oscar
- 74 wins & 161 nominations total

Jasmine
(as Symara Templeman)

Gana Bayarsaikhan

Jade

Tiffany Pisani

Katya

Elina Alminas

Amber
(as Lina Alminas)

Chelsea Li

Office Worker
(uncredited)

Caitlin Morton

Office Worker
(uncredited)

Deborah Rosan

Office Manager
(uncredited)

Evie Wray

Secretary
(uncredited)

Director
- Alex Garland
Writer
- Alex Garland
All cast & crew
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Trivia
The location of the house in the movie is the Juvet Landscape Hotel in Norway.

Goofs
When Ava and Kyoko meet in the corridor, there are masks on the wall. At the end of the scene, the masks are gone. Correction: The camera angle is not a reverse shot along the same corridor with the masks. The camera has moved to where Kyoto is standing, turned 90 degrees right and is looking down the corridor she came from. When Nathan finds them, he is looking from the other end of the corridor where Kyoto came from.

Quotes
Nathan: 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.
Caleb: I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Nathan: There you go again, Mr. Quotable.
Caleb: There you go again. It's not my quote. It's what Oppenheimer said after he made
Nathan, Caleb: The atomic bomb.
Nathan: Yeah, I know what it is, dude.

Crazy credits
The end credits starts with a single dot in the background which then grows and various patterns emerge from it.

Alternate versions
The alternatively censored cut released in China featured frequent blurs of nudity and, on occasion, violence. One scene towards the end also seemed to be zoomed for no apparent reason.

Connections
Featured in Film '72: Episode #44.2 (2015)

Soundtracks
Schubert Piano Sonata No.21 in B Flat Major, D.960
Composed by Franz Schubert
Performed by Alfred Brendel
Courtesy of Decca
Under license from Universal Music Operations Limited

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Featured review

8/10

Geek love

Don't mean to insult here, but who else wants to love a machine. Bear with me: this movie has a deep insight to communicate, whether intended or not is open to question.

The story is a modern telling of Bluebeard's Castle as the correct version of Beauty and the Beast. In other words, it seems to be about impotence. Except that this is geek love, love at an impossible distance, that is eroticism. And the movie itself tells you all you need to know about eros.

The insight. Ex Machina is ostensibly about Turing's Test, the thesis that a machine might be so human as to fool a human being. Does Ava pass this test? Depends on how you perceive the test. Ex Machina actually implies a more relevant Test: could a machine seem so human as to make the human being inteacting with it come to believe that he himself is a machine?

And the insight? It might be that the solution to the AI/human interface may not involve the humanising of robots, but the robotisation of humans.

Only 8/10 because it is not clear that this insight was actually part of the plot. But whether you find eros or AI in this movie, you will have a rewarding journey.