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Ex Machina
This Alex Guarland movie is the story of Nathan (Oscar
Isaac), a scientist ____ has created a famous search engine which is not named
"google", ___ which is obviously meant to be google. Nathan works alone on Artificial
Intelligence in an isolated research center. He wants to see if the A.I. ___
overcome the human being / A.I. threshold (The so-called Turing threshold).
With this _______, Nathan organizes a phoney game as a pretext to invite the
second character (and good guy) of the movie, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson). Caleb
is required for one week to interview Nathan's cyborg, Ava. Caleb starts to
interview Ava each day. He is supposed to determine _____ Ava's awareness
qualifies ___ human. Obviously, everything will not happen according to ____.
Alex Guerland is famous mostly as a writer. He ___ written
many best-selling books, some of
____ have been made into Hollywood films such as The
Beach, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Guillaume Cannet, and 28 Days Later, starring Cillian Murphy. _____ working on
these movies, Guerland met director/screen writer/producer Danny Boyle, and
started work on the Ex Machina screenplay. Ex Machina is his debut as a film
maker.
In other ____ the movie reflects Guerland's literary
background. In my opinion this is sometimes a little bit overdone, a bit
self-conscious. That said, the script ____ give the characters more depth and
individuality, especially Nathan, who is brilliant, decadent, contradictory and
paradoxical. He is ___ an alcoholic and extremely healthy and athletic. The
amazing performance by Oscar Isaac (Nathan) is in ___ responsible for bringing
this personage so convincingly __ life.
The movie ___ have some other defects. Guerland the writer
____ many interesting points, but possibly so many ___ we are left
dissatisfied. One example is
relationship between Nathan and the his androids, which crosses over
____ slavery and abuse. Here Nathan is supposed to be demonic yet he is never
actually shown to cross the limits of acceptability. Everything is suggested
conveniently outside the main plot, leaving Nathan unresolved as a _______.
Another plot flaw is the search engine created by Nathan. We learn than Nathan
has used ___ data from all around the world to create his AI - something which
is currently problematic given the issue of user confidentiality - but this is
not considered at all. This might ____ added some interesting layers of
analysis.
In the ____, I feel that Ex
Machina makes ____ progress in the AI genre. Even though it adds and exploits
the sexual dimension of androids, the film doesn't add much to the work done
long ago by sci-fi writers such as Huxley and Ballard. That aside, the
relationships between the characters are very ______, and the dark themes of
manipulation, power, and the terrifying idea of evolutionary nemesis are
thought provoking. We glimpse fleeting stories, and witness Caleb's ultimate
failure to ____ Ava's real motives and superior intelligence, which in turn
symbolises our society's failure to address our self-destructive ______ with
technology.
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