Ex-Machina is
a psychological sci-fi thriller. It was Directed by Alex Garland who is a
English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. A talented director
was beneficial to the success of the film. The film was produced by two
companies: DNA Films; this is one of the UK’s most successful production
companies. Along with British television company Film 4 which is owned by
channel 4.
I think the
choice of cast was very successful and the actors played very good believable parts.
Playing one of the leads (Caleb) was Domhnall Gleeson. He is a quite well known
actor and has starred in films such as The Revenant, Star Wars: The force
awakens and about time. Alicia Vikander is a well known Swedish actress. She
won an academy award for supporting actress in The Danish Girl and also starred
in Jason Bourne. The 3rd actor was Oscar Issacc who played the
character Nathan. He has starred in Star Wars: The force awakens and X-men
Apocalypse. The characters and actors who played them Is important to me and if
I think the film was good or bad. I believe that Alicia who played Ava the
robot, was very realistic and used her acting skills to demonstrate how a robot
would work to adapt the human world.
The film
raised some ethical issues such as can there really be such high artificial
intelligence. Will there one day be robots created who interpret human emotion
in ways to manipulate others and get what they really want. People may believe
the whole idea of robots being created with human like features is very far
fetched but this film raised debates about whether this could actually take
place.
My opinion: I think that
the film was based on a very innovative idea. The film was quite easy to follow
however some of the language used was very scientific which to me was quite
confusing. I liked that there were only three main characters, I felt that this
helped to connect to each character more and see them in more depth. This
helped draw me in to the film and enjoy it more. It was interesting to see how
the director and writers had planned out how the relationship with Caleb and
Ava was going to be. They became very close which made me as the viewer think
there is some kind of emotional connection between the two. Their was a very
major plot twist at the end which I found quite shocking and did not expect it.
Ava turned out to just be made to use human emotion and her sexuality to
manipulate Caleb so she could be free and out in the real world. I think that
this made the film more gripping as all of a sudden the film headed in a
complete different direction.
Even though
overall I thought the film was quite good there were a couple flaws. I think
that their was no need or relevance to see Nathan dancing with one o the robots
and this dragged out for a little to long. Also the scene consisting of the
killing of Nathan was quite stretched out. This made the tension created in the
audience slowly fade out because it got slightly boring. One problem I also
noticed that I wasn’t to sure about was that Caleb changed the system in the
building so when there was a power cut
the doors would open instead of lock. This meant Ava could escape but then
Caleb was locked in but surely if this was the case the door would be unlocked
for him also.
Overall
considering it was a much lower budget film I think it was successful and I
would watch it again.
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