A24 On The Rocks

20. Ex Machina (2015) Film Review


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The A24 Rocks gang reviews its 20th film, and perhaps one of the best A24 films of all time: Ex Machina. Directed and written by Alex Garland (director of Men and Annihilation), this academy award-winning Science Fiction flick is about a programmer named Caleb (played by Domhnall Gleeson) who works for a Google-reminiscent company called Bluebook. Caleb wins a raffle to meet Bluebook CEO Nathan Bateman (played by Oscar Isaac). After traveling to Nathan’s desolate island home and signing a "boiler-plate N.D.A." Caleb finds out that Nathan has brought him in to do a Turing Test on an artificially intelligent robot (played by Alicia Vikander). These film nuts invite special guest Kurt Facknitz to review the film with them and debate artificial intelligence. Specifically: what is the future of it? Have we already crossed a line with LaMDA? Will it be a good development for humanity or a bad development? Plus, Blaize discusses his relationship with his vacuum. Caution: movie spoilers.
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