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re: Ex Machina

Posted on 10/13/25 at 11:27 am to
Posted by FredBear
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 11:27 am to
Ah, that does make sense
Posted by TygerTyger
Houston
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 11:53 am to
“She” is not human. Does “she” even truly have emotions?

The best way to ensure her escape is to destroy any evidence, including the ginger.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 11:57 am to
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The way she abandoned that guy at the end was messed up, he didn't do anything to her and was trying to help. I guess she was just looking out for her own interest and the hell with him?


She wasn't emotional about it, but she could have killed him. Leaving him trapped just bought her more time to escape. Caleb will almost certainly escape once he calms down.
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 12:09 pm to
He’s trapped in the room, he’s going to die in there. The only danger to Ava is Caleb exposing her to anyone or even alerting anyone to her existence. He has to die to ensure her freedom
Posted by Lizardman2
Member since Jan 2024
2459 posts
Posted on 10/13/25 at 12:32 pm to
Question:

Early in the film, it's established that Ava charges herself via induction plates in her floor. The movie offers no explanation for how she will maintain her charge once she leaves the facility.

However, I do understand that the strength of the film's ending is that it leaves the viewer to grapple with the uncertainty of Ava's fate.

Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 12:35 pm to
Good question, they do not address it at all in the movie.
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 1:39 pm to
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but give Upgrade a shot.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 3:12 pm to
quote:

He’s trapped in the room, he’s going to die in there.


Meh. He cracked the glass already. Once he calms down, he will get around to using the weights. Once he gets freedom of movement within the facility, he will survive until the resupply and the inevitable welfare check on big boss.
Posted by 632627
LA
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 3:29 pm to
My only contribution to this thread is that Alicia vikander is absolutely stunning
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
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Posted on 10/13/25 at 7:40 pm to
I watched it a couple of times when it hit HBO, or whatever app it was on. No longer on HBO.

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I sitll watch this movie on repeat every year or two.
Try to remember to bump this thread again when you watch it!
This post was edited on 10/13/25 at 7:42 pm
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 10/14/25 at 9:10 am to
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He’s trapped in the room, he’s going to die in there.

I disagree. Weren't the power surge things only temporary? And he's in Nathan's bedroom so he can just use the computer(s) to get out, right?

IMO Ava wasn't fricking over Caleb at all...she was just indifferent to him and was doing whatever she needed to do to escape, including leaving him trapped in the room while she left. Which was the totality of what the Turing Test was all about anyway...a robot making a human think it's another human and letting it free, no?

Excellent, excellent movie. One of the best of the last 10-15 years easily.
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
67594 posts
Posted on 10/14/25 at 9:17 am to
She has no strong feeling one way or the other about the guy. However, she’s all about her survival.
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
66743 posts
Posted on 10/14/25 at 10:19 am to
Well the director said he left it open to interpretation so you’re not wrong. I just see the movie as an allegory so that’s why imo he’s trapped.
Posted by Dire Wolf
bawcomville
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Posted on 10/14/25 at 12:38 pm to
Oscar Isaac has been wasted ever since
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 10/14/25 at 1:03 pm to
A Most Violent Year was really good

and then there is Dune part 1.
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
66743 posts
Posted on 10/14/25 at 1:04 pm to
He’s excellent
Posted by Dire Wolf
bawcomville
Member since Sep 2008
39946 posts
Posted on 10/14/25 at 1:11 pm to
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A Most Violent Year was really good


think that came out in the same year as Ex Machina. good movie

Annihilation and triple frontier are good too

forget he was in Dune 1

I just had high hopes for him before Star Wars but that is more a hollywood issue than anything
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
38521 posts
Posted on 10/14/25 at 2:52 pm to
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Weird to look back now and realize we're seeing Poe and General Hux from the Disney sequel trilogy here.
There were a few years there where it seemed those 2 were in almost every movie.
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
75401 posts
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:45 am to
Not sure if Proximo is following this, but I finally saw it. Just finished a moment ago, since it resurfaced on Tubi.

It was good. I'd say a solid 7/10.

I'm usually not a fan of much A24 does, but it was definitely a thinker. Obviously I'm obscenely late to the party but it struck me as being on par with the better Black Mirror episodes, thematically.
This post was edited on 10/17/25 at 7:48 am
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
75401 posts
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:50 am to
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Fell in love with that skinny chick during that scene


She's the Dornish chick Mysaria in House of the Dragon
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