{"id":10396,"date":"2020-03-28T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T03:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=10396"},"modified":"2020-03-30T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T03:10:08","slug":"ex-machina-a-science-fiction-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/28\/ex-machina-a-science-fiction-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Machina \u2013 A Science Fiction Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

This British production follows the story of Caleb Smith, a programmer working for Blue Book which is a Google-like company headed by a reclusive genius named Nathan Bateman.\u00a0 Nathan has summoned Caleb to perform a Turing test on his female robot Ava.\u00a0 A Turing test is the concept of an artificial intelligence passing itself off as human to an observer.\u00a0 Ava has a human face, hands and feet attached to a body that is mostly mechanical.\u00a0 Caleb quickly becomes emotionally attached to the robot and loses all objectivity for his job.\u00a0 Nathan is a volatile, domineering personality who quickly bursts out into rage when anything goes against his plans.\u00a0 Caleb slowly becomes convinced that Nathan is a kind of monster.<\/p>\n

The story takes place in the claustrophobic \u201chome\u201d that Nathan has built in a remote mountain estate that can only be reached by helicopter.\u00a0 We quickly see that nothing is at it seems.\u00a0 Nathan is not trying to get Caleb\u2019s opinion on Ava, he\u2019s studying their interaction.\u00a0 In this story we see that each of the corners of the triangle is manipulating the other two.\u00a0 Caleb slowly finds out the dark details of Nathan\u2019s project to produce artificial humans and I guess we\u2019re supposed to sympathize with Ava and despise Nathan.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a funny thing.\u00a0 By the end of the movie I feel the opposite.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m so tired of Alexa, my GPS and all the other annoying female artificial voices now filling our world.\u00a0 I was rooting for Nathan.\u00a0 I wanted him to shut down Ava and build a male robot that would just do its job and not complain.\u00a0 After all, in the world we live in 99.999% of humanity are just wage slaves who toil away for the better part of our waking lives.<\/p>\n

I was relieved to discover that there at least wouldn\u2019t be any robot human sex scenes but there was some nudity involving an ancillary character.\u00a0 Camera Girl chided me for watching robot sex movies.\u00a0 Well this was worse than that.\u00a0 It was sort of a robot revenge chick flick.\u00a0 Female empowerment movies are really not my bag.\u00a0 And female robot empowerment movies even less so.\u00a0 I\u2019m giving this thing a thumbs down.\u00a0 If you are less sensitive about this sort of thing you might enjoy this movie but although some facets of the movie were interesting all in all I\u2019d give it a pass.<\/p>\n

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