![]() With this contest, Nathan was looking for a suitable foil and human subject for Ava to perform an elaborate week-long Turing Test, an in-depth examination, created by the late British intellectual Alan Turing (the same historical figure featured in " The Imitation Game" last year, more on this later), that tests a machine's ability to indistinguishably replicate intelligent and human behavior. He wants to know how complete and functional Ava is and that's where Caleb comes in. Living in solitude with a mute assistant (newcomer model and ballerina Sonoya Muzino), Nathan reveals to Caleb that he has developed a prototype humanoid robot named "Ava" (Swedish actress and dancer Alicia Vikander of "Anna Karenina" and "The Fifth Estate"). Nathan has eschewed the public eye for several years while working on his next great invention and discovery that he promises will change the world more than Blue Book. DEUS EX MACHINA MOVIE MOVIEQuick movie fact, "Ex Machina" was filmed at the luxurious Juvet Landscape Hotel in Valldalen, Norway, which makes the glass house in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" look like your neighbor's shoddy backyard tool shed. Caleb is flown out of the city to Nathan's isolated compound and residence out behind the glaciers in the rural mountains of an unspecified country. ![]() He is informed that he has won an employee contest to meet Blue Book's reclusive and ultra-successful creator Nathan, played by prolific " Inside Llewyn Davis" Golden Globe nominee Oscar Isaac (who will blow up in the next few years with "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "X-Men: Apocalypse") and share in a special research project. But, it's still missing that next edge of sharpness or gear to ascend to the next level.ĭomhnall Gleeson ("About Time," " Unbroken") stars as Caleb, a coding programmer for Blue Book, the largest and most-used search engine in the world. "Ex Machina" is very smartly created and makes the list of good (excuse my language) " mindfuck" films, joining the excellent and underseen " The One I Love" from last summer. The ominous ambiance of implications and ramifications is properly defined. "Ex Machina" has much more good than bad and much more surprise than contrivance when it comes to traversing the mine field that can be the science fiction topic of artificial intelligence, especially with a potentially damning title like that. The key words in that description are "contrived" and "unexpected," meaning the some are good and some are bad. Think the frogs raining at the end of "Magnolia" or the Eagles with oh-so-perfect timing in both J.R.R. It does so with a title referencing the often-used Greek phrase "deus ex machina." To cite Wikipedia for the ill-informed, "deus ex machina" is defined as a "plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object." In layman's terms, this is talking about your classic monkey wrench, curveball, or magic eraser in a film. The modestly budgeted "Ex Machina," the directorial debut of British screenwriter Alex Garland ("28 Days Later," "Sunshine," "Never Let Me Go"), is the latest cinematic experiment to tackle the idea of artificial intelligence within the genre of science fiction. From the awestruck sight of Maria/Futura from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" in 1927 to Baymax in Disney's Oscar-winning 2014 film "Big Hero 6" and every "Terminator" and "Transformer" in between, cinema has been a welcome home for bringing the topic of artificial intelligence to life. ![]() With artistic mediums now that extend behind the written page, the creation and storytelling of artificial intelligence seems as limitless as the modern technology itself that may create myth into reality. Beginning with bronze and clay statues coming to life in Plato and Homer's tales of classical mythology, the sophistication of artificial intelligence taking physical form has only expanded with invention and imagination of society since. Artificial intelligence is a topic that is on the Mount Rushmore of the best and most intriguing fictional story ideas. ![]()
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