Ex Machina Question...potential spoilers

i assumed he was making sure he wasnt a robot

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That's was my first guess too but I wasn't sure. That seemed too obvious

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I think that's what it is, but if you try to dig deeper the only thing I can think of is to convince Nathan that he's losing it

She passed the test. He worries that he's AI because he can't see a difference.

Ava was so convincing to him that he questioned whether or not he was really human. Because he fell in love with her.

Just watched it this afternoon. Loved it. My only question is what was going on when Caleb first saw Ava through the TV monitors. He was all like WTF but really there was nothing going on. A moment later the lights went out. What was that all about?

My favorite movie this year

that was an odd movie, I watched it last night. The ultimate "friend zoned" ending.
That dude got played so hard.

I think geauxjuice had it right.

But as long as we've got an ex machina questions thread, I've got one more. Exactly how much was Nathan cheating at his own Turing test?

The whole point of the test as he describes it was to see if Ava could escape her "rat maze" using the one tool Nathan placed at her disposal; Caleb. We know Nathan is helping push Caleb towards Ava, as evidenced by the picturing tearing scene. But how much of the rest of their interaction was geared around helping her pass this test? He makes it clear that Caleb can have sex with ava. He pushes the narrative that she would be attracted to Caleb. But are these just aspects of the way Nathan sees the world/his creation, or is he actively working towards pushing that relationship, as he did by basing Ava's looks on caleb's porn profile?

Going back to the picture tearing scene, immediately after he tears the picture he returns to that awesome dance scene and gives Caleb (and the audience) the impression that he was hammered drunk. But he seems completely in control, speaking clearly when with Ava immediately before. So if this drunk scene was faked, or at the least staged, can we wonder if his entire drinking problem is a false character trait that he consciensly developed to make himself less appealing to Caleb, thereby increasing the chance he helps Ava?

Super long rant, I know. But this was the one thing stopping me from saying this was a strong movie of the year candidate. I just couldn't figure out exactly how much he was cheating at his own turning test, verses actually just being the version of himself he presented

I think Nathan screwed himself whenever he told Caleb he could have sex with Ava. At that point Caleb was determined to get Ava out of there.