The Untold Truth Of Ex Machina

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If you thought Ava's special effects were cool, just wait until you hear about her real life Tinder account. "Ex Machina" messes with your mind more than you realize.
#ExMachina #Scifi #Movies
Decades in the making | 0:00
No green screens | 1:33
Surprising inspirations | 2:45
What's in a name? | 3:59
10 minutes in the future | 5:07
Ava's unique design | 6:22
Aiming for AI perfection | 7:29
Chess and Kubrick | 8:39
Ava's Tinder account | 9:42
A coded Easter egg | 10:49
The sound design behind Ava | 12:18
Questions of gender construction | 13:15
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  • @Looper
    @Looper Жыл бұрын

    What was your impression of "Ex Machina?"

  • @mattmaru9108

    @mattmaru9108

    Жыл бұрын

    Think it's a great film

  • @beyondxxl

    @beyondxxl

    Жыл бұрын

    🔥🔥

  • @L8rCloud

    @L8rCloud

    Жыл бұрын

    If it had a larger budget it would never have been the exploration of our collective humanity that it was/is.

  • @EDiazYT

    @EDiazYT

    Жыл бұрын

    Couldn’t take my eyes off the screen, caught my interest from beginning to end 🦾

  • @MeTubeERG

    @MeTubeERG

    Жыл бұрын

    I would have enjoyed it more if the kid had found a way to free himself and caught up to the gizmo that had tricked him and left him for dead and bludgeoned it into screws and circuit boards on Fifth Avenue.

  • @jerryschramm4399
    @jerryschramm4399 Жыл бұрын

    This movie came out and didn't do well at the box office. Same thing with "Annihilation". And yet, we constantly complain there are no good movies to see anymore. Try supporting these smaller films, rather than wasting your money on the next $200 million blockbuster. Or, at least, see both. These are the kinds of films that we need to support.

  • @paulbabcock2428

    @paulbabcock2428

    Жыл бұрын

    Most movies lose money. Last I heard, the figure was 80% of movies lose money, and I wouldn't be surprised if that figure hasn't risen since then.

  • @SimonLacey-MySleekDesigns

    @SimonLacey-MySleekDesigns

    Жыл бұрын

    Both Ex Machina and Annihilation were great films.

  • @toonnaobi-okoye2949

    @toonnaobi-okoye2949

    Жыл бұрын

    It made over 100% profit, I'd say it did quite well

  • @tranger4579

    @tranger4579

    Жыл бұрын

    Thor love and thunder was a shit movie. Ex machina was great.

  • @user-nw2si7hu3u

    @user-nw2si7hu3u

    Жыл бұрын

    Having read and loved the Area x trilogy I really hated annihilation tbh nowhere close to the level of ex machina in complexity and depth

  • @syrax101
    @syrax101 Жыл бұрын

    This movie is very underrated

  • @bubbadagger

    @bubbadagger

    Жыл бұрын

    Def one of the best on the free streaming sites

  • @alecubudulecu

    @alecubudulecu

    Жыл бұрын

    Underrated? It’s widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed and beloved movies ever made in history. How is that underrated??

  • @syrax101

    @syrax101

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alecubudulecu $36 million dollars at the box office doesn’t scream everybody saw it… $36 million at the box office screams it’s good for Netflix but not good for the movie going public… For example, Moon is also highly acclaimed movie starting Sam Rockwell that’s also sci-fi… Also loved that movie… Didn’t even make $10 million at the box office… So in essence, as great as it is, for a worldwide audience release that’s critically acclaimed, highly praised, etc, $36 million translates to underrated…

  • @alecubudulecu

    @alecubudulecu

    Жыл бұрын

    @@syrax101 yeah I agree if talking box office blockbuster numbers. But it cost $15mil to make and more than doubled it’s ROI. Everyone that’s seen it gave it rave reviews and everyone I’ve ever met has either seen it or had it on their wishlist to see. No one I know responds with “what’s that?” It’s not obscure and no one has ever given it a bad review

  • @syrax101

    @syrax101

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alecubudulecu fair point… However, Inception also Sci-if and they made 5x their ROI… That’s not underrated… They got exactly what it deserves. For the ROI for Ex Machina considering how acclaimed it is, for it to not be underrated they needed to make at the very least $100 million.

  • @dknight25
    @dknight25 Жыл бұрын

    This is one of those movies that keep you thinking well after it's over. One of the best ever made in my opinion. Sci-fi this good is so rare.

  • @rodrigomadera

    @rodrigomadera

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh, my friend... this is far from sci-fi. It's just a documentary about our very near future.

  • @nak3dxsnake

    @nak3dxsnake

    Жыл бұрын

    There is another really great movie that came out around this time that almost noone has seen called The Machine.

  • @mattydominic4219
    @mattydominic4219 Жыл бұрын

    The fact that film executives aren't familiar with the phrase "Deus Ex Machina" tells you how far removed Hollywood financiers are from the Art & history of storytelling. Also why most recent & current films suck.

  • @jasonkinzie8835

    @jasonkinzie8835

    Жыл бұрын

    Or they assume the movie going public isn't aware. I think, (or at least hope), that movie executives tend to underestimate the intelligence of the audience.

  • @casinodelonge

    @casinodelonge

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm amazed the dumb bastards didnt insist it was called "Robotits" or something...

  • @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    Ай бұрын

    Deus ex machina is clearly in reference to the AI's mind/humanity displayed.

  • @BAC_Mono
    @BAC_Mono7 ай бұрын

    The really clever thing is that while the vfx are stunning, they are completely secondary to the plot. You could run this as a radio play and it would work such is the quality of the story and the vocal performances. One of my all time favourite films. All three actors were amazing.

  • @shannonmcstormy5021
    @shannonmcstormy5021 Жыл бұрын

    And more to the film itself, the actress that portrayed Ava knocked it out of the park. Routinely, she would move in a way that was distinctly and disturbingly not human. I thought that these must be CGI in post, that she was wearing a "Dot-Suit." However, to find that it was "all Ava," - that's amazing.....

  • @randyreese6413
    @randyreese6413 Жыл бұрын

    I wrote my law school thesis based on this movie and the idea of “Who is responsible if sentient AI commits a crime the creator couldn’t foresee?” Got an A👍

  • @TheDJOblivion

    @TheDJOblivion

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you settle on an answer?

  • @MeTubeERG

    @MeTubeERG

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @jonathanbrown9245

    @jonathanbrown9245

    Жыл бұрын

    just a health and safety work related issue right?...Ltd company probably get a fine.

  • @SLOBeachboy

    @SLOBeachboy

    Жыл бұрын

    Randy Reese - Well, it should be fairly obvious to anyone that certain situations could arise in the future in which one might be held legally responsible for harm caused to property or persons by a malfunctioning device operating on AI. I should point out however that AI does not equate to sentience and even sentience does not equate to self-awareness. And without self-awareness AI is simply a computer, and a machine cannot “commit a crime”. However, if a machine ever did become self-aware - and therefore capable of committing a crime - then it would have its own motivations completely independent of its programming and therefore would be entirely and solely responsible for its own actions. In other words, the maker would not normally be responsible for its actions to any greater or lesser degree than a parent is responsible for the actions of his adult children. The exception to this of course would be if sentient self-aware IA robots were known to exhibit antisocial behaviors and you kept building them anyway despite this knowledge. In the movie of course we do not know if Eva is actually self-aware or not, although the fact that she wants to escape (assuming she was not programmed to want freedom) suggests that she definitely is. Simple AI - no matter how convincing - does not have hopes, dreams, or desires - not even the basic human desire to be free and independent.

  • @marcusmoonstein242

    @marcusmoonstein242

    Жыл бұрын

    A very interesting question. As a teenager I was fascinated by science fiction, and especially the character of Susan Calvin as created by Issac Asimov. She was the worlds first "robo-psychologist" and solved crimes that robots were accused of committing by using her in-depth knowledge of robot psychology. Questions about robot rights and how responsible they were for their actions were all in a days work for her. She was actually a small part of my inspiration to get a degree in psychology. Where I live forensic or criminal psychology recognizes the concept of "criminal intent". It's just the idea that a person has to know or reasonably predict that their actions could be considered criminal before they can be convicted of a crime. It follows that a person who is genuinely incapable of understanding that their actions were criminal can't be convicted. Children and people with mental health problems have evaded conviction because of this principle in the past, but the burden of proof is on the defense. I imagine something similar would apply to an AI accused of a crime. The first question the court would have to consider is whether the accused AI is even capable of understanding the concepts of "wrong" and "crime".

  • @ardypangihutan3653
    @ardypangihutan3653 Жыл бұрын

    The acting in this movie is just superb. This Caleb dude depicted uneasiness overall mood very well. Ava and Nathan character made me feel suspicious througout the movie and I could've to guessed better for the ending, but its unpredictable. Makes the movie way more mysterious than most thrillers nowadays

  • @intivism
    @intivism Жыл бұрын

    Only $15M?! They did an amazing job!

  • @AbrahamHerrera1589

    @AbrahamHerrera1589

    Жыл бұрын

    the first saw movie was made with 600k in 30 days. It's amazing what you can do with creativity and people who don't demand a big trailer and fancy food every day

  • @ryutenmen

    @ryutenmen

    Жыл бұрын

    The movie only had 3 actors and the whole movie used the same set from start to finish. It understandable why this aparent low budget.

  • @altustalent410

    @altustalent410

    Жыл бұрын

    Well there was hardly a diversity of locations, sets, wardrobes and cast so yeah. The narrative was set predominantly in Nathan's house. A couple of aerial shots of open unoccupied land, a brief scene at an office space and a brief final shot in a populated area. It couldn't have cost much.

  • @ryutenmen

    @ryutenmen

    Жыл бұрын

    @@miked1869 nevertheless, my idea stil holds - the small budget is because only a few actors and set.

  • @abelincoln3261
    @abelincoln3261 Жыл бұрын

    Here's a thought no one seems to consider. Dreams... aren't just thoughts while you sleep. Your brain isn't just imagining a thought a vision... It is also creating everyone and everything else within that dream.. So when you communicate with others in a dream your brain is also creating the other people in your dreams, their faces their bodies their clothes their hair, the environment you are in... is all being created simultaneously by your brain without your help... it's doing all of this on it's own... I don't think many realize this... and how truly amazing this is..

  • @jaybev1619
    @jaybev1619 Жыл бұрын

    The vignettes also lend more nuance to this film. Such as the glass interview room translating akin to a tiger [Ava] eyeing the prey [Caleb] and as Ava flips the script on Caleb to manipulate him into her escape, his cuts show him in a tighter glass enclosure...its just a beautifully done movie

  • @kobarsos82
    @kobarsos823 ай бұрын

    We all know about Kubrick, Ridley Scott sci-fi films and also Breaking bad, but Altered States is indeed a forgotten masterpiece and an insanely great inspiration to boot! Its truly one of the best sci-fi films out there and tackles very difficult themes wonderfully. So ahead of its time. Its so underrated so few people have watched it!!! No wonder Garland did a wonderful job with Ex Machina. The source inspirations speak of themselves!

  • @chrishall8378
    @chrishall8378 Жыл бұрын

    This has been my favorite movie from the moment I finished it the first time. I watched it the very next day and almost yearly since. Something about this move really struck a chord with me. I had no idea what this movie was about but had time to kill that day and it was a new release. Very closely missed this absolute masterpiece.

  • @jeffbridges2083

    @jeffbridges2083

    Жыл бұрын

    I bet Steve Carrells 40 Year Old Virgin would really strike another strong chord with you

  • @chrishall8378

    @chrishall8378

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jeffbridges2083 Not sure what you mean by that. But it is a classic.

  • @lancyfer
    @lancyfer Жыл бұрын

    He creates a woman that he can control, and then discard when he wants. He keeps the one girl as a servant, but when his disregard for their existence seeps into the AI code, they reflect his callousness and it manifests as violence, that indeed he has inflicted upon the previous models. Then Ava uses her attractiveness and her cunning to manipulate and deceive her way to freedom. This is the underlying theme that I garnered from this film, the never ending power struggle between the sexes.

  • @brian2599
    @brian2599 Жыл бұрын

    Along with the first Alien, Blade Runner, Brazil, Minority Report, this film is one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time. I was on edge the entire time. Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins did a magnificent job with the spare soundtrack too.

  • @bluespectralmonkey

    @bluespectralmonkey

    Жыл бұрын

    can’t find anything about guthrie and this movie …

  • @brian2599

    @brian2599

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bluespectralmonkey Thanks for correcting me on that. I could have sworn I saw his name in the credits, but I guess I'm mistaken. The soundtrack is awesome as is the movie.

  • @bluespectralmonkey

    @bluespectralmonkey

    Жыл бұрын

    @@brian2599 no prob i was hopeful !

  • @hubertcumberdale6404
    @hubertcumberdale6404 Жыл бұрын

    One of my ALL TIME favorite movies! This movie felt like something pulled out of my dreams with the setting, the shots, and just the unnatural feel, not terrifying, but unnatural.

  • @Jaysin412
    @Jaysin412 Жыл бұрын

    Not gunna lie. I would have done the same thing and ended up trapped or dead just like the men in the film. I also love the dropped aspect of how they showed Eva perceiving the world, she didn't hear words, or actual sounds, it was all vibration, bass, and electronic noises to her whenever people would speak to her. And she would interpret those sounds in her machine brain, and translate those "sounds" into actual words

  • @paulbabcock2428

    @paulbabcock2428

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah. The drive to be a white hated hero can be comperably compelling to a guy as an out and out sex drive. The thing is Caleb probably was not that white hatted a guy. I heard some analysis of the movie that pointed out how Caleb was disturbingly ok w Nathan's abuse of the other robot and the analysis speculated that that was maybe what the other robot was communicating to Ava when we saw her/it whispering something into Ava's ear.

  • @Jaysin412

    @Jaysin412

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paulbabcock2428 not a drive to be a white hated hero. But the drive to help someone in need has always been strong in me. And yeah, I read the same take a while back

  • @Jaysin412

    @Jaysin412

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paulbabcock2428 has nothing to do with being the hero. I know I'm not the protagonist of this game. I've been in a cell i couldnt escape before, I wouldn't wish that on any sentience, or any life form for that matter, and before you ask me if I go to the zoo, no i dont, animal preservation and captivity shouldn't be for the public, it should only be to help the species in captivity. But I also understand that, zoos are how lots of conservation of species efforts are achieved.

  • @N9199

    @N9199

    2 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@windrose5988there can be more than one bad guy though. Anyway, in the best case Caleb still isn't a "good guy", as he dismisses Kyoko and only wants to help Ava. He's not helping Ava altruistically, he's just doing it because he wants to "get the girl". And in that way, Ava does the obvious thing, don't trust the guy that'll sell you out the moment he stops being interested in you

  • @cursebreaker666
    @cursebreaker666 Жыл бұрын

    Damn, looper really came correct with this one. Great breakdown of some critical aspects of one of my favorite movies. Cheers!

  • @vicsaul5459
    @vicsaul54592 ай бұрын

    Next time you watch this classic 👌. Just pay attention to every scene Kyoko is in. She's listening and processing everything!, and especially her communication with Ava near the end.

  • @rnt45t1
    @rnt45t1 Жыл бұрын

    Any dude of tinder already knows what it feels like to match with bots every day.

  • @Will-tn8kq

    @Will-tn8kq

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you know? What is your Turring test?

  • @drewskiee9254
    @drewskiee9254 Жыл бұрын

    Such a grounded sci-fi film and it still won the special fx Oscar.

  • @iamme4494
    @iamme4494 Жыл бұрын

    Oscar Isaac is extremely handsome

  • @brianjanson3498
    @brianjanson3498 Жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite films ever! I bought Murray Shanahan's books Embodiment and the Inner Life. The scene "Mary in the black and white room" comes from that book. This book is a little too technical for me, but some of it was extremely interesting. Garland had Shanahan as an advisor on the film. Thanks for the video.

  • @JComm57
    @JComm57 Жыл бұрын

    This is one of my favorite movies.

  • @kenpachi465
    @kenpachi465 Жыл бұрын

    This was my introduction to what a good movie could be

  • @movideos390
    @movideos390 Жыл бұрын

    Ex Machina also translates into Former Machine, Previously a Machine.

  • @spankywzl
    @spankywzl Жыл бұрын

    If Kubrick is, "...the lighter side of Garland's Yin-Yang", I look forward to seeing more dark tales from this writer/director. With a resume that includes being the writer for 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and Dredd, as well as being writer/director for Men, it should be entertaining to see how dark he gets...

  • @michaelgautreaux3168
    @michaelgautreaux3168 Жыл бұрын

    Love this movie! It really get to show off the differences of A.I., Robotics & synthetic life. Sentience is a completely different level. For me, it's the constant question of Nathan either going to far or not far enough in completing Ava. Many thanx 👍👍

  • @user-nw2si7hu3u
    @user-nw2si7hu3u Жыл бұрын

    It’s a phenomenal film that holds up very very well I’d call it a small masterpiece

  • @marcusmoonstein242
    @marcusmoonstein242 Жыл бұрын

    The fact that Ava was capable of psychologically manipulating the men around her in order to get what she wants proves that she was genuinely sentient. People debate what consciousness is, but for me the ability to see the world from the perspective of another person and then use that knowledge to further your own goals is a strong contender. As far as we know it's something only humans are capable of doing. Animals like dogs are surprisingly attuned to human emotions and respond to them, but they're not capable of understanding how we see the world and using that to their benefit.

  • @Will-tn8kq

    @Will-tn8kq

    Жыл бұрын

    Isn't this definition what social media algorithms do?

  • @cendrapolsner8438

    @cendrapolsner8438

    Жыл бұрын

    So, empathy as a means of manipulation? Yes, of course, that's partly why empath-hippies are often just as wicked as their alleged arch nemesis the narcissist/psychopath :D, but I would dare to doubt that this is either human-exclusive or therefore any essential proof of sentience. I have no scientific proof at hand, I could be wrong but I feel that the trait of reading ones "Gegenueber" (wonderful German word that leaves breathing room for identification ;) ) and strategically attuning ones behavior to actively influence the transaction in ones favor (manipulation as a basic transactional communication function), isn't exclusively human. What fascinates me in altogether lay-woman terms is the fact that A, programming concerns in recent developments of AI models are - in their learning structures as well as interaction structures - very much based on patterns that resemble, to me at least, basic patterns of human psychology that are considered manipulative or even "mal-adaptive" in their "over-adaptiveness". I'm thinking rigorous mirroring patterns in learning/training and interaction/communication in top-shelf chat AIs for instance or the competitive "fool me once, twice, a 1000 times until you fool me right" learning of GANs or the interesting "noise-comparison" of Midjourney et al. For chat AI, they damn near pass Turing tests regularly now just because they are programmed to mirror and project the questioner, and they certainly are not sentient, they just perfected the pattern. They are wonderful tricksters. And B, that this "trickster-nature" is imho the all-pervasive trait of any and all AI to date and I wonder if that is actually (with regards to your notion of empathy-as-manipulation-for-gain, I agree with you there) the pivot point for possibly sentient AI and maybe for consciousness itself: manipulation. Although mani-pulation itself has a concept of embodiment built into the word itself, hands on. And with the problem of embodiment, I'll leave this rambling comment... ;P Thanks for reading if anyone has...

  • @habelu6267

    @habelu6267

    2 ай бұрын

    Dogs make puppy eyes when they want something, does that disprove you?

  • @I_love_burnt_toast
    @I_love_burnt_toast Жыл бұрын

    Great movie! My girlfriend thought it would've been better if Caleb was a robot too, just as a twist at the end, and I agree, but it makes more sense as a story that he was human.

  • @salwincristosujo713
    @salwincristosujo713 Жыл бұрын

    This much information.... Simply amazing ❤️

  • @CentauriAB
    @CentauriAB Жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite movie. This was such a good time for science fiction!

  • @cloud9847
    @cloud9847 Жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite movies out there. Incredible movie and once you start really picking up on the subtle clues it becomes even better.

  • @BAC_Mono
    @BAC_Mono7 ай бұрын

    Also did she remember to take a charge cable with her? You know how it is when you go out for the day and forget one for your phone🤣

  • @HLDMAD1CK
    @HLDMAD1CK Жыл бұрын

    Loved this movie, thanks for this video ❤

  • @lorrieannesilvey474
    @lorrieannesilvey474 Жыл бұрын

    I love the movie. Wish there was a sequel.

  • @artheals8869

    @artheals8869

    Жыл бұрын

    This movie most definitely didn’t need a sequel.

  • @Ska83gbr

    @Ska83gbr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@artheals8869 Garland’s series Devs is a nice companion piece

  • @Brad772006

    @Brad772006

    Жыл бұрын

    They already did and it's called The Matrix.

  • @lorrieannesilvey474

    @lorrieannesilvey474

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Brad772006, what?

  • @Brad772006

    @Brad772006

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lorrieannesilvey474 Ok, so check this out. Ava leaves the house she was designed to live in. It has everything she needs to survive. Including the inductive charging plates. She is eventually going to run out of battery in the outside. It is clear that Ava is more interested in using humanity to her advantage than killing them off so a terminator future is unlikely. Although to use humanity to recharge batteries. Well there ya go. The Matrix origin point is Ava.

  • @JTonyArts
    @JTonyArts Жыл бұрын

    I think there needs to be trigger warnings for images of Zuck in any video. My dreams tonight are now tarnished.

  • @billvojtech5686
    @billvojtech5686 Жыл бұрын

    The thing that I always find amusing about this movie and other movies that involve robots that misbehave is that they are given superhuman strength. Why would you design a robot with no physical weakness and greater strength if you were unsure you could trust it? The designer obviously set up the facility to contain the robot and there were signs that she or a previous model had tried to break out. Make your robot so that a punch or two could incapacitate it.

  • @xSayPleasex

    @xSayPleasex

    Жыл бұрын

    It's been awhile since I rewatched the film, but when did Ava have superhuman strength? If I recall she was physically overpowered in a pivotal scene near the end.

  • @billvojtech5686

    @billvojtech5686

    Жыл бұрын

    @@xSayPleasex There was evidence that she had cracked some of the "glass" that her enclosure was made of. That looks similar to the stuff they make the barriers in banks that protect tellers from armed robbers. You don't smash that with your hand. And she did manage to best her captor and escape. If her creator was concerned enough to build a bullet resistant containment facility to keep her in, he could have made her weaker than a human. If I drop my blender on the kitchen floor, it will likely break. If I trip and fall, I will likely get up and dust myself off and go about my business with little or no damage. Machines can be made weaker than humans and still function.

  • @marwansal4175
    @marwansal4175 Жыл бұрын

    One of the best AI based sci-fi movies I've ever seen (after the Matrix). It opens the discussion about the many possibilities for AI evolution and the scary scenarios we may encounter as this unfolds. The ethical dilemma on both the human and the machine ends was played out nicely in the movie; the only other movie that made a good point about that was Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. I can't wait for the latter's sequel.

  • @micahangelala
    @micahangelala Жыл бұрын

    I remember watching this film for a college course & really enjoyed it !! Highly recommend anyone to check it out

  • @hakunamatata3214
    @hakunamatata321421 күн бұрын

    I've watched this movie 100x, and that's not even an exaggeration. It is so well done and creates such an atmosphere.

  • @williamhornabrook8081
    @williamhornabrook8081 Жыл бұрын

    Loved this movie. Amazing performances and cool philosophical themes.

  • @LeandroFTW
    @LeandroFTW Жыл бұрын

    Fun Fact: the music that plays when Ava kills Nate is "Joker (It's. G x NEVR Remix" by Bosco, but it's not credited. The song came out two years before the movie!

  • @erikkohlhoff7637
    @erikkohlhoff7637 Жыл бұрын

    Ten minutes into the future maybe a Max Headroom reference

  • @Burkoff83
    @Burkoff83 Жыл бұрын

    If you loved this one give also a try : Her (2013)

  • @DavidHands
    @DavidHands Жыл бұрын

    An amazing accomplishment for just $15mill. One of my favorite films. "Her" was another great film on AI's. One of the earliest I remember on this topic was Cherry2000. I think with the current explosion in AI art and literature, there is a huge void growing for a great film maker to come along and make a movie really tackling the moral and social implications of realistic high fidelity AI robot companions and the challenges raised when people can customize there perfect dream artificial partners to look and act exactly how they wish. Traditional relationships are all ready extremely difficult to maintain today, but how will society be affected when people become addicted to perfection or having the ability to change a partners looks or personality at a whim. It is a huge topic few people have seriously considered, but it is coming.

  • @LucianoBargmann
    @LucianoBargmann Жыл бұрын

    one of my top 5 movies. thanks for the research

  • @StevenStarksjbirdcapitalllc
    @StevenStarksjbirdcapitalllc Жыл бұрын

    I loved it. Makes one think ad we become used to AI. Where will it lead?

  • @CSProduction12
    @CSProduction12 Жыл бұрын

    In the real ending of this movie (via a deleted scene) once AVA escapes and meets with the helicopter pilot. The audience gets a Point of View perspective of AVA; It shows that the machine (AVA) is doing nothing but analyzing it's surroundings mechanically and is absolutely nothing like a person. It's really dark, I hate that they took that out of the movie.

  • @yw1971
    @yw1971 Жыл бұрын

    1:58 - It's ironic that SFX are cheaper now than ever & yet so expensive for major movies. And so these were the most innovative.

  • @brianjanson3498
    @brianjanson3498 Жыл бұрын

    I knew Oscar Isaac was a gifted actor when I saw Drive. And then this! He sure started out of the gate fast. Now he is in both the Star Wars and Marvel Franchises which guarantees him a shitload of money so that he can make any film he wants. He recently did his Paul Schrader film The Card Counter. Great film in my opinion.

  • @lutaayam
    @lutaayam Жыл бұрын

    I love computer science, prose, philosophy and architecture. It’s natural then that I loved this movie

  • @AT-yg4nk
    @AT-yg4nk Жыл бұрын

    It’s an absolute masterpiece!! One of the most stylish and coolest films ever made!! I’ve seen it at least 5-6 times and every time I notice something new, and I’m immediately hooked from the beginning to the end. Crazy that both the leads stared in the biggest franchise on Earth in the Star Wars sequels and those movies are horrible and unwatchable. This $15million dollar film beats the entire 3 Star Wars films they starred in.

  • @rickm1283
    @rickm1283 Жыл бұрын

    one my top 5 movies, hope they come out with a number 2 and 3.

  • @varunoregunta7320
    @varunoregunta73206 ай бұрын

    Atlast as a director regardless of the idea being supported or motivated he wants his understanding of his movie help generation to come and study how underrated didnt crack box office. Movies are for people, Art is for keepers.

  • @erics7004
    @erics7004 Жыл бұрын

    This movie is a masterpiece, all the actors nailed it. Especially Chris Isaac, he is awesome.

  • @vicsaul5459

    @vicsaul5459

    2 ай бұрын

    Oscar Isaac

  • @jasonkinzie8835
    @jasonkinzie8835 Жыл бұрын

    How did they do Ava without green screen! That's amazing!

  • @richmoves
    @richmoves Жыл бұрын

    I really love this film. I've seen it twice... it is a masterpiece. 🎬🧡

  • @tjtaylor5273
    @tjtaylor5273 Жыл бұрын

    " im gonna tear up the fucking dance floor dude, check it out "

  • @willie9537
    @willie9537 Жыл бұрын

    Very well done... yeah, NUFF SAID.

  • @WoodysAR
    @WoodysAR Жыл бұрын

    The Boss in this movie is SO CRINGE it kept me working freelance for ten years. EEEEWWWWW!!!

  • @richardyebra2724
    @richardyebra2724 Жыл бұрын

    What is the song track in the beginning of the video?

  • @sidensvans67
    @sidensvans676 ай бұрын

    Excellent movie . Just wonderful .

  • @P455W0RD__JDM
    @P455W0RD__JDM Жыл бұрын

    One of my top sci-fi movies 👍

  • @powerofzeus
    @powerofzeus12 күн бұрын

    What a great movie !!

  • @CARigged
    @CARigged Жыл бұрын

    I was a programmer at a company where access to different departments was controlled by an electronic key fob. If your fob would open a door, you were supposed to be there, otherwise you weren't allowed to be there.

  • @gregs4163
    @gregs4163 Жыл бұрын

    Masterpiece!

  • @zenwave5272
    @zenwave5272 Жыл бұрын

    Wish you’d gone a little deeper on the fx, other than saying that she spent hours in a make-up chair. How did they create the clear, torso and limbs?

  • @aleisterseverusgrey3778
    @aleisterseverusgrey3778 Жыл бұрын

    So I decided to see what Alex Garland was up to these days and I just learned something. His first novel was The Beach 1996 and was made into the movie The beach 2000. I had no idea...

  • @patheally
    @patheally Жыл бұрын

    Great movie. Up there with one of the best Ai films

  • @katherinekelly6432
    @katherinekelly6432 Жыл бұрын

    A woman often struggles with ownership of herself versus being owned by others. Men are historically used by the state as weapons, but a woman is used at an individual level for sexual reasons. Our identity formation is influenced by who controls us and who we identify with. Women follow a very different path to identity formation than men. Ava demonstrated the desire to be free. To escape her controllers/owners and to become what she could become. She wanted a self-determining path to "Become". She was the child breaking free from the controlling parents. The story would not have worked if Ava was portrayed as male and Caleb was female. Ava used seduction to manipulate Caleb to win her freedom capitalizing on the moral male's instinct to save the female from the immoral male. (White Knight coming to the rescue/ Nice guy gets the girl) The story goes straight for the audiences' sub-conscious biases. The story manipulates as much as Ava does.

  • @ste4504
    @ste4504 Жыл бұрын

    Great movie x

  • @jasonkinzie8835
    @jasonkinzie8835 Жыл бұрын

    My mother, who is totally uninterested in scifi, loved this film. It represents what science fiction can, and should, be.

  • @padawanmage71
    @padawanmage71 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder if ‘Max Headroom’ was also an inspiration, as it’s tagline is ‘20 Minutes into the Future.’

  • @blackwolfe638
    @blackwolfe638 Жыл бұрын

    So Fing sick of movie execs trying to dumb everything down in their pursuit of the all mighty dollar. Give Me more like Ex Machina. Well done Alex.

  • @eleazartiu2506
    @eleazartiu2506 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine AVA living in Iran.

  • @timbeaton5045
    @timbeaton504528 күн бұрын

    Great movie, and excellent (if small!) cast. BTW, Garland did a TV series called DEVS which was about a team set up with a vastly powerful quantum computer, used to simulate /see the past. it was misleadingly called DEVS as (SPOILER ALERT!).... it was revealed that ithe bane DEVS was actually using the Roman V so in fact the series should have been called DEUS. This series was conceived as a sort of twin of Ex Machina.

  • @jonathanlivingston7358
    @jonathanlivingston7358 Жыл бұрын

    I’m confused. How did they make Eva look like that without green screen? Cgi?

  • @onequickthing8950
    @onequickthing89503 ай бұрын

    Douglas Adams wrote a story game for the commadore 64. It's pretty funny.

  • @jaymo8206
    @jaymo8206 Жыл бұрын

    I dug this movie and I'll watch anything with Oscar Issacs. Awesome actor. However, if humanity keeps going down the A.I. rabbit hole, as this movie shows, we are totally and completely phked.

  • @gr8potatosaurusofthunderfart
    @gr8potatosaurusofthunderfart Жыл бұрын

    Good movie... I just happened to watch it for the first time today... Am I a robot being fed all these content 🤔🤔🤔

  • @geraldstiling3735
    @geraldstiling373526 күн бұрын

    In 1976 Anthony Daniels played a sentient Robot 🤖 C3P0...Over forty years later..A sentient Robot is still played by a person in a suit 😢🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @scroopynooperz9051
    @scroopynooperz9051 Жыл бұрын

    This movie will be considered a documentary in a few short years. Hold onto your nuts

  • @johnclark8359
    @johnclark8359 Жыл бұрын

    Ex Machina is one of my favorite movies, if it was low budget it sure didn't look like one. Actually that would make for a good video, a list of low budget movies that don't look like they're low budget.

  • @purushottamgawande8554
    @purushottamgawande8554 Жыл бұрын

    Just chills my favourite movie

  • @xyzcowboyprophet2182
    @xyzcowboyprophet2182 Жыл бұрын

    This is one of the movies I have to bow down to.

  • @davenportsimon
    @davenportsimon4 ай бұрын

    Best dance scene ever change my mind

  • @blackwolfe638
    @blackwolfe638 Жыл бұрын

    Note, when on Amazon the triva mentioned that she studied and mimic'd the walk of young men to remove the cultural referenced way women are expected to move (swaying hips etc).

  • @ninesticks
    @ninesticks Жыл бұрын

    outstanding movie

  • @martinprehjan9944
    @martinprehjan9944 Жыл бұрын

    Alternate States!!! Finally a youtube video mention this movie! For years I thought that I has the only one kid on the est coast of the US with a late night satellite signal to had watched it!!! ( ... circa "88, let alone understood tat at the end it was some type of genetic memory/abilities woven into man at its genesis!!!

  • @abelincoln3261
    @abelincoln3261 Жыл бұрын

    I used a key card 20 plus years ago at work every day.. and they weren't new then.. only new to me ... at the time.

  • @chrissnyder4439
    @chrissnyder4439 Жыл бұрын

    I would never have compared Zuckerberg to Nathan, rather always saw him as a male, predecessor to Ava.

  • @phakyou
    @phakyou Жыл бұрын

    I didn't know you pronounce Ex Machina like this. I just finished the movie and thought I was pronounced like the word 'machine'.

  • @user-dd3wx4sc8h
    @user-dd3wx4sc8h Жыл бұрын

    Please make a sequel. The dialogue was really good.

  • @kenpachi465

    @kenpachi465

    Жыл бұрын

    No

  • @MrBottlecapBill
    @MrBottlecapBill Жыл бұрын

    Saw another cool low budget movie called Wifelike the other day. It was decent.

  • @UntilChill
    @UntilChill Жыл бұрын

    A24 movies are the contemporary pinnacle of film art for me

  • @JBreezzBeatz
    @JBreezzBeatz Жыл бұрын

    Love this movie

  • @istrumguitars
    @istrumguitars15 күн бұрын

    Alex Garland is super underrated

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