Film Analysis Of The Movie Ex Machina

Ex Machina is a film about a scientist named Nathan who has selected an employee of his, Caleb Smith, to be flown out to his estate for a week. When Caleb arrives Nathan tells him that he has been selected to be part of a Turing test. A Turing Test is when you have a human and a computer interact with each other and if the human doesn’t know that they are interacting with a computer, then the test is passed. But Nathan has already completed that part of the test so now he wants Caleb to actually see her and have a one on one conversation with her see if Caleb still feels that the robot has consciousness. So, it turns out that Nathan has created a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence and her name is Ava. Ava appears with a robotic body but

Imagine having to face impossible odds, if failed, would kill you. This is exactly what the Spartans had to face when they were protecting their home. The movie 300, directed by Zack Snyder tells the story of the courage and solidarity of King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his army of three hundred Spartans who fought the army of King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his colossal Persian army to their deaths. In 300, producers cover the Spartan life, the Spartan women, and the Battle of Thermopylae.

Caleb asked Nathan what he would do if Ava fails the Turing Test and discovered that she would be updated.

In the film “The Princess Bride” directed by Rob Reiner, a story about a fairy tale adventure that all begins with a beautiful girl name Buttercup who works on a farm alongside the farm boy named Westley, who she is deeply in love with. After a while, Westley decides to go seek his fortune, which made Buttercup very upset as she wonders whether she’ll see Westley ever again.

The film, the Untouchables, was directed by Brian De Palma. It was set in the prohibition era, which was right at the start of the 1920’s. Prohibition can be described as a law that made selling and manufacturing alcohol illegal. By putting this law into effect, it actually increased the amount of crime and violence throughout cities in the US. This was ultimately due to the rise in organized crime, also known as gangs. In the movie specifically, it was centered around the rise of the Mafia in Chicago. By looking at the production of the movie, we can see how during prohibition, the Mafia controls everything and the violence ultimately it leads to.

We live in a world that the strive to be normal is inevitable, if you have a disability, you are told you can’t do most things, if you look different than the majority you get discriminated. Society has taken many steps back on the view of disability, especially for Deaf individuals. Deafness is viewed as a disability that needs to be fixed, due to a hearing society where hearing is the norm. With the push to “fix” deafness there is an increased likelihood that sometime in the near future with genetic testing being targeted to remove the deaf gene, deafness is at a threat of extinction, which in turn will cause the extinction of American Sign Language and the Deaf Community.

In Gattaca we see that Valids, those that have been genetically engineered, have a sense of superiority towards In-Valids, those born naturally. We see very clear scenes in the movie where In-Valids have been persecuted against due to the circumstances of their birth, which was something they had no control over. There are many moments when we see this prejudice, from very early in the movie, and almost all the way to it's completion. From the moment Vincent was born, he and his entire life was almost mapped out on a piece of paper. Everything from his chances of contracting diseases, how he will operate cognitively, and even when he is most likely to die. Vincent is immediately pigeonholed, and from that moment on, declared one who is seen

The Maltese Falcon was released on October 18th 1941 in the USA, it was directed by John Huston who at the time was not a well known director and this would be his first film. This was also based on the book of the same name written by Dashiell Hammett. This movie started some big name actors such as Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Gladys George. This Film Noir style movie with its leading character of Sam Spade allowed the film to breakthrough the middle roles of other gangster movies such as Casablanca or the african queen. This film noir has been waiting to come to life, it was already a novel created by Dashiell Hammett, and was created into different genres of film before it was created into a film noir. Everyone who has seen this film

A reoccurring theme in Ex Machina is the question of is Ava, the artificial intelligence bot, justified for leaving Caleb, another character in the movie, behind in one of the final scenes of the movie. This is a debatable topic however the important aspect of his is to remember ava is an artificial intelligence bot and was programmed to know certain pieces of information and do certain tasks. Example being like she was programed to try, and escape and she did just that. This question in this specific case is she justified for leaving Caleb behind?

While Nathan and Caleb is having dinner, they have another conversation about Ava and the power cut that always occur in the house. Nathan knows everything about power cut. He knows that it is caused by Ava but he pretends that he does not know anything because he wants Caleb to tell him about what happened during the power cut – he wants to knows what did Ava tell him. In this scene, a long shot is used to show a reflection of Nathan on the dining room wall to foreshadow that Ava is not the only one who has two side, but also Nathan and to emphasise that Nathan is hiding the fact that Kyoko, the maid in his house, is also an AI.

When it comes to the film industry, entertainment is the tool used to acquire what is desired, money. The main goal for filmmakers when they create a film is to attain money in addition to the money spent to make the movie. Therefore, in some films that they like to base off of true accounts, it is somewhat necessary to dramatize or embellish the story to really tug at the heartstrings of the films audience. They achieve this goal by the use of dramatic music, ambient lighting, and a small amount of tweaked diction. The Fighter is an excellent example of this dramatization in action because throughout the film the characters are faced with a multitude of decisions that must be made. The choices they make require the characters to choose

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As a computer science major, it is only natural that I would have an affinity to science fiction films. However, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina is not just any science fiction film, it is a view into the human psyche and society’s subconscious fear of being replaced by something we perceive to be greater than ourselves. Ex Machina is a morally ambiguous story that is Promethean in nature, because “fire” or intelligence has been given to machines. Many of the characters in Ex Machina exhibit Jungian archetypes such as Ava being the dreamer, Caleb Smith as a positive animus, Nathan Bateman as a negative animus, and Kyoko as a positive shadow. However, some may have different perspectives on who would

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The neo-noir film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, has become a classic example of a futuristic dystopian society in which dominant humans develop a desensitized and barbaric attitude toward a marginalized societal group: humanoid clones known as Replicants. This film is often interpreted as the consequence of powerful corporate capitalism and a lack of ethics. When viewing this film from a scientific immunological perspective however, a parallel between the film’s dystopian society and the function of the mammalian immune system can also be drawn. This connection will be examined by viewing the Replicants as unwanted invaders, the specific markers they exhibit that allow them to be easily identified, and their limited lifespan due to programmed death.