Written and directed by Alex Garland, the sci-fiction movie EX Machina tells a story of how an AI robot outsmarts her creator, the human being, in a Turing test. The story begins when a helicopter takes a young programmer Caleb to a remote land to meet his reclusive boss Nathan, who lives in a house by a stream. The mystery unfolds as he steps into a modern but isolated facility, where it is surrounded by walls without windows, and controlled by surveillance camera. Invented by Nathan, Ava is a humanoid android who can talk, feel and think. She is beautifully crafted with human face, but her hinder brain is clad by silver shining helmet. Her waist part is transparent, through which the inside metals and shimmering blue light can be seen, and her legs are made of metal frame. While Ava's machinery features are obvious from the first sight, the other female Kyoto in the house has a deceived outlook of human being, until later in the movie it is revealed that disguised under her human skin is the metal skeleton. The suspension is built up when in the absence of surveillance, Ava tells Caleb that he should not trust his boss Nathan, and shows her romantic feeling towards Caleb，begging him to take her away with him. The story ends with Caleb being locked and trapped in the sound-proof facility, while Ava successfully escapes via the helicopter that comes to pick up Caleb. Dressed up like human beings, Ava freely walks in the crowd of the city like NY.
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Thanks for the review on The Matrix. I felt similarly when I first watched it. But over time, the movie grows on me, especially agent Smith's monologues with Morpheus, e.g., "Let me share a revelation with you ..." Whenever I starts a conversation with my son with that line, he would just laugh. I need to watch "Ex Machina" to form my own view.
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I borrowed the DVD Matrix from the library, and finally got to watch last night. Just did some research too, and know that the movie won four Oscars. It was a box office smash at the time. No wonder you think it the best. This movie is far more complicated than Ex Machina, and honestly it is beyond me. I was lost when the movie keeps switching from really to the dream land, the wars between Neo and Smith to free/captivate human beings. Fights, fly, kungfu or wire work are seen in it. Unlike Matrix, Ex Machina has a simple but riveting story. The scenes are bright versus mostly dark in Matrix, and robot Ava is aesthetically pleasing. So Ex caters more to my taste, a woman like me(小女子). It is my personal liking though. Matrix is shot in 1998, while EX Machina is I'm 2015. The world changes people's perception of the robot. I copied below what I found online:
"Ex Machina"'s Nathan Bates is a mix of Victor Frankenstein, Colonel Kurtz, Steve Jobs and Mark zucketberg; he is a man who aspires to put himself at the center of creation. Ava's AI is drawn from his earlier creation, BlueBool, a simulacrum of Google."
Sorry that I said too much about the plot in the review, and it may spoil the surprise you might have without reading this. Did not mean to, though. It would be interesting if we can live to see how robot impacts our life in the future. Maybe the day is not far away at all.
PS：另外几个留言的朋友：不好意思，尚未看future world。
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Of course I did and I'd like to share something Mr. Zinsser said in the book On Writing Well:
"You learn to write by writing. It's a truism, but what makes it a truism is that it's true. The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis."
Cheers! Keep it up.
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回复7grizzly: Thanks for your visit and comments. Sorry I may not have watched The Matrix, though when I just googled, the picture looks familiar. I will watch it and let you know. I am never a sci-fi person though. Did you notice my English version from the last posts? Thanks to you, I forced myself to practice in English too.
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I didn't watch Ex Machina but watched The Matrix many times.
How do you compare the two?
I thought it was very hard to better The Matrix.
