Ex Machina is the best movie I’ve see in years SPOILERS

The best since No Country For Old Men in 2007. What an experience. This, for me, was one of those rare, magical theater experiences. I found myself smiling throughout its entirety, marveling at how well-written, well-shot, well-acted, and well-scored it was. Like Baloo said, it’s not afraid to be smart, and it doesn’t baby the audience. Tons of great themes and ideas that keep you thinking long after the credits finish rolling. My dad, my sister, and I talked about it for over an hour after leaving the theater. Christopher Nolan needs to take notes from Garland. This isn’t some pseudo-intellectual hoopla that blazes through explanations.

If you haven’t seen this, do yourself a favor and go.


















SPOILERS

We, the audience, get duped just like Caleb did. We were an indirect human component of the Turing test, and, although the ending is foreshadowed far in advance, we still hold on to a small semblance of hope that Ava is more than a machine. She passes the Turing test, to us. Absolutely brilliant. You’re given so many clues as to how it will end, but you’re left guessing the entire time and it ends up being so much more than that.

Question:

Ava mentions charging her batteries as a method of inducing the power outages. Do you think that her needing to charge is true, or a lie she came up with? If it’s true, then she dooms herself at at the end by leaving. Lots of people online are saying shite like “she’s smart enough to figure out how to charge,” but I think the ending is more beautiful if she leaves knowing that she will eventually die, forsaking herself so that she can escape the black and white room and see the world.