Review of Ex Machina

Ex Machina (2014)
5/10
The most beautiful naked, attractive, submissive and deadly artificial intelligences in the world
6 June 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This is a strange film. Although the story was quite easy to grasp, I cannot tell what the film was about. On the surface, the film is about a young man's interaction with a bevy of artificially intelligent robots in the shape of beautiful women, and with the older man who created them. But this can't be it -- if this is what the film was about it would be idiotic; it is obvious that the film-maker has no idea whatsoever of what an AI is, or how it could be created. Moreover, my feeling is that the film-maker doesn't even care about what an AI is, or how it could be created.

--- Possible spoiler alert ---

It could be that the film is about man's escape from Paradise, where they were confined by a cruel or unthinking creator. In favor of this interpretation come the long boring artsy sequences, claustrophobic setting, and the gratuitous yet shameless nudity. But then, if this was the film-maker's intention, why leave the surface story so undeveloped and unbelievable?

Overall, I can say that I liked the movie. The women were beautiful but the philosophizing was much too cheap.
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