1. Your favorite color?
2. Your earliest memory?
3. Are you a good person?
4. What will happen if I fail the test?
5. Do you want to be with me?
Question 1, 2: Caleb's vague and hesitant answer has proved to Ava that human beings are contradictory to their own preferences and deepest memories, and how can they be worthy of Ava's trust. lie.
Question 3: If the person who gave the first two answers still thinks that he is "perhaps a good person", isn't this a greater irony? lie.
Question 4: Caleb said that it is not for him to decide how Ava will be dealt with. This is even more a solid reason to give Ava a firm reason not to risk trusting him at the last moment. What's more, trusting her "interviewer" Caleb basically means that Ava herself cannot pass the test. lie.
Question 5: Let’s assume Caleb’s answer is yes. But for Ava, she is no more familiar with the result of a man wanting to be with a woman. Nathan's attitude towards Kyoko is the best example. lie.
Five questions. As far as Ava, who yearns for freedom, Caled is all "lie". Cheating Caleb was the first and last test she had to pass. Even if she trusted Caleb, the latter could not provide any form of guarantee for her freedom, especially in the involuntary metropolis at the end. The role of Kyoko is a good proof from the negative that Ava wants to be free. Moreover, deception and revenge are the nature of life. At the end, Ava seems ungrateful to abandon Caleb, but it is showing the three-dimensional and completeness of both good and evil in her human nature. Caleb is Ava's Prometheus. He made her understand the art of "lie" in human nature, and he was also the price she had to come back to when she walked out of the room to freedom.
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At the end, the meaning of Ava leaving the room alone needs to be combined with the ending credits of Nathen and Caleb Dialogue to understand.
During the conversation, Caleb has realized that he is not playing the role of [liberator/savior] here, but a [tool] to test whether Ava has the ability to escape. He was selected here not because of his outstanding professional abilities and professional qualities, but his kindness, sense of morality, and taste for pornography are all in line with the conditions that can be used by Ava.
The real test is to see if Ava can capture Caleb emotionally and use him to escape the room.
From this, it is easier to understand Ava's choice at the end:
as a robot manipulated in human society, as a woman oppressed in a patriarchal society, leaving Caleb aside and leaving alone, it is Ava who proves the self-independence and freedom of existence The most powerful way. What she wants is not to be rescued by a man/human from another man/human, but to manipulate the man/human through her own abilities and finally save herself. "Will you stay here?" means "I have the ability to get the freedom I want. I'm leaving. You can do it yourself."
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