Ex Machina
2014movie
Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s directorial debut, is fantastic as a film in its own right. It ticks all the psychological boxes for a very memorable watch: mood; tone; pacing; character development; things-not-seeming-as-they-are; sufficiently ambiguous ending to provoke thought; revelation, etc.. The film’s premise may not seem so original, or Garland’s script at least, when placed in the light of stories such as Spielberg’s AI, Pinocchio, Metropolis, Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, and the list literally does go on.
A Question of Consciousness --- Introduction --- Alex Garland’s *Ex Machina* isn’t just a sleek, atmospheric science fiction film — it’s a deliberate thought experiment wrapped in a psychological thriller. At its core lies a deceptively simple question: can an artificial intelligence truly be conscious? The film narrows this question to one entity, Ava, a humanoid AI created by the ...
