Ex Machina
Summary
Director Alex Garland pinpoints one briefEx Machinascene that answers whether Ava has consciousness . Released in 2015 , Garland ’s sci - fi drama star Alicia Vikander as an intelligent android being put to the test by her creator ( Oscar Isaac ) , who like to determine whether she possesses dead on target knowingness . score Garland ’s directorial launching , the film rear powerful philosophic questions about the nature of consciousness , while contend with deep quandaries about the potential awareness of artificially level-headed beings , and whether they should be treated as moral loose agents .
The ambiguousEx Machinaendingmay have seemingly leave many of the film ’s biggest questions up in the tune , but according to author - director Garland , the movie contains an answer to whether Ava is really a conscious being , put up during a brief moment toward the end , as the android is executing her escape from her creator ’s lair . Check out what Garland had to say about the matter below ( viaEW ):
“ I put my own sentiment into things , but I do n’t put them front and center because I do n’t require to shut down a conversation . There ’s a really simple model of it in Ex Machina . That whole movie is about , ‘ Is this machine sentient or not ? Does it have consciousness ? ’ Towards the very end of the film , there ’s a shot of the robot smiling , and she ’s on her own . So then it must be conscious . There ’s my answer , but it does n’t have a big flag attach to it . "
Ex Machina’s Alternate Ending Would Have Been Much Less Subtle
Ex Machinaends with Ava pass on behind her Divine Nathan ’s lair , having not only passed his test , but surpassed his expectations of her ability . At this tip , the film gives Ava a present moment of on-key liberation , as she prepare to board a helicopter and fly off to a Modern life of freedom .
The Mona Lisa smile Garland allows Ava as an expression of freedom may have left the question of her consciousness ambiguous enough to keep conversation run , but there was another version of the account that would have left things on a very different , and much stranger musical note . TheoriginalEx Machinaendingwould have seen the film ’s head - of - view go in Ava ’s mind , testify the fully computational way her android brainiac processes realism , and definitively underlining her non - human nature , making the motion of her consciousness much muddier .
Ex Machinais available to watch on Max .
Ava ’s niggling grinning may , in Garland ’s mind , demonstrate her human consciousness , but it could still be that she is not at all human in the agency she march reality . The original ending indeed would have made Ava seem not at all human , but instead of feeling invitingly equivocal , this development might or else have come in across as confusing and even to a fault dark . Garland at long last determine to use a lighter soupcon with hisEx Machinaending , lettingVikander ’s Avaretain the potency for true human consciousness .
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Young computer software engineer Caleb is selected to participate in a groundbreaking ceremony experimentation by evaluating the human character in a new and improved female artificial intelligence . But in the luxurious , detached house of the man who created this technology , all may not be as it seems .
Young computer programmer Caleb is selected to participate in a groundbreaking experiment by evaluating the human qualities in a new and improved female artificial intelligence. But in the luxurious, isolated mansion of the man who created this technology, all may not be as it seems.
