By Chongchen Saelee<\/p>\n
Oh, man, I just paid $10 to watch Alex Garland’s film “Ex Machina” and I don’t think it was worth $10. It may have been worth a rental, though or a matinee, about $5. But not an “advanced event screening” of $10. I could have treated myself to some fast food afterwords, but nope. This movie is NOT WORTH $10.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the basic premise of this movie is about a young man, a programmer, selected via a lottery at his Google-like job to meet with the company owner. He gets swooped away in a majestic helicopter ride to the CEO’s huge private land. There, the CEO is holding secret experiment on Artificial Intelligence and robots. Supposedly, the young programmer is to test the robot for human qualities by interacting with it.<\/p>\n
The movie is kinda boring, and because it’s technically shot so well, so cinematic, that you’d get duped into thinking it was more head-trippy than it actually is. It could have been done as a short film or a SyFy movie. The plot isn’t as epic as some reviewers are making it out to be.<\/p>\n
It’s the same formula. Take a pretty girl, strip her naked, spew out some pseudo techno babble, and collect the suckers money. I can’t believe I fell for it. The Matrix, on the other hand, didn’t use the “magician’s assistant”, but still managed to create a more profound analysis and philosophy about technology. But maybe it’s just all relative.<\/p>\n
SPOILER: Apparently, the robot is programmed so well, it wants to live. It uses the naive programmer to plot an escape. It teams up with the other female robot and kills their creator. Then it leaves the poor programmer locked at the station to rot, having served his purpose.<\/p>\n
In the end, they want you to believe it’s a statement about AI and technology, but if you’re keen enough, you’ll realize the actual statement is about how pretty girls will use men to get their end. It’s not exactly misogynist, but the filmmakers are telling you exactly how the film industry or any kind of marketing is done.<\/p>\n
There’s only so many gimmicks left in these run-of-the-mill anti-technology films. You can predict all the outcomes. At the least be honest, in the case of Ex Machina, you only want to watch it for the naked women. You won’t leave that movie theatre any smarter or giving a crap about AI. C’mon, be serious.<\/p>\n
End note: Alicia Verkander, the antagonist AI robot, has an amazing ass.<\/p>\n
75 out of 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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