Ex Machina Movie Essay

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Ex-Machina is a 2015 British science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland. It tells the story of a programmer Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) who wins a one-week visit to the secluded home of Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), the CEO of his software company . The only other person there is Kyoko, a mute housemaid. Nathan has built a humanoid robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander) with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and wants Caleb to administer a Turing test, which tests an AI's ability to appear human. Ava is an android with a face and body that resemble those of a female human, with portions of transparent skin that reveal her inner mechanisms. During the …show more content…

During one such outage, Ava says Nathan is a liar who cannot be trusted. One day, Ava asks Caleb what will happen to her if she fails his test. Caleb later finds out that as Nathan improves his AI any obsolete robots are erased and reprogrammed. Caleb encourages Nathan to drink until he passes out and steals his security card to access Nathan's room and computer. He alters some of Nathan's code, then discovers footage of Nathan testing earlier robot models, during which the nature of their incarceration causes the robots to damage themselves trying to escape. He also discovers that Kyoko is one of the robots. After seeing the footage of other AIs Nathan has constructed, Caleb questions whether or not he himself is an AI – causing him to cut his forearm deeply to inspect for

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