Ex Machina is an upcoming 2015 British science fiction thriller film, written and directed by Alex Garland, marking Garland's directorial debut, and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander. It tells the story of a computer coder who wins the chance to spend a week at the house in the mountains belonging to the CEO of the company he works for, only to find he has to participate in an experiment involving a new brand of artificial intelligence.
The film will be released in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2015, and in the United States on April 10, 2015 through A24 Films.
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Oh im really looking forward to it. First time i heard the name (b4 trailer) i was like "Sweet Jebus theyre makeing another Deus Ex Machina movie, oh yeah!" but now im like "Its like the movie Her...but better!"
Any of you go out and catch it yet?
Lived up to the trailer imho; the soundtrack was fun and first time in a while I've had my morning wake-up slightly tainted with recollections of the thriller sequences (even if they were average:)
Loose thoughts:
Spoiler:
disappointing: The Google CEO as effective drunkard and stale jock-nerd dichotomy, idea of a simultaneously well-run experiment that was potentially undermined by the insanity / sense of infallibility accrued by genius, seeming dual sentiment at the end: 'wait here' for nothing, as though Ava learned some torturous capacity, made her seem over-zealously using Caleb without reason, but it made for a cooler ending; a page of hacking undermines the smartest (?) individual on the planet's ego-project's security system???? pls
not disappointing: Line between conscious entity and experiment fluid throughout film, but seems to shatter when we get a glimpse of Nathan's inhospitable nature and the dancing robot ('yeah, fuck her!' 'dance with her!'), , genuine empathy with Ava by the time the movie was through, evolution of the Turing test (and consequently Ava's character) was cool