Ex Machina: An Ethical Science Fiction About Artificial Intelligence

Jamarcus 2022-04-20 09:01:09

Score 72 points. A science fiction + ethics film I watched during the Shanghai Film Festival. There are ideas, and the visual effects are top-notch, but the ethics are scary enough. It is recommended for boys to download and watch it online.

(Some quotes from Fang Yunan's film review, and some spoilers)

1. Story:
A tech genius and billionaire who is wealthy, cunning, cunning, self-willed, monopolizes the global search engine, lives in a mansion isolated from the world, Zhili researches and develops artificial intelligence, and successfully creates a sexy female robot that can communicate freely with people, taking care of daily life, providing sex and entertainment, and satisfying his infinite curiosity as an experimental object.
He hired a programmer, in the name of testing robots, but in fact let them try to fall in love. After seven days (seven chapters in the film), things eventually develop beyond his control, and the female robot has quietly developed a level of intelligence far beyond him and the programmer. Horror ending.
The last thing the director wants to express is: a machine is something without emotion, you want her to have emotion, that is, human beings are stupid.
If you're interested in artificial intelligence, just the jargon-filled dialogue in the film will keep your brain pumping.

2. Disadvantages of the plot: This film oversimplifies the plot for the sake of smooth narrative.
Because it is not intended to be a big duel between humans and machines like The Matrix and Terminator, the challenges faced by the female robot in the film are a bit too easy, or the human loses to her like water, which discounts the horror effect. .

3. Narrative: Nordic-style cold wind.
There are only two or three characters in the whole process to turn the plot, but the dialogue is refined, the pace is steady, and the logic is strict. The narrative process has always revealed a sense of oppression when the crisis is approaching, making the audience sweat for the programmer for a long time.

Fourth, visual effects: pleasing to the eye.
I really don't know how to PS out the machine core on the heroine's body (see the picture below).

5. Actors:
1) The heroine is Michael Fassbender's girlfriend, Nordic, with a clean and neat shape, much like the Mother of Dragons in Game of Thrones, and the scene where she is naked and covered in human skin is also spelled out.
2) The figure of the Japanese woman kyoko is really extreme, and a sex robot like her leaves a lot of fantasy space for future men.
3) The male protagonist starred in the robot in the second season of "Black Mirror". This time he became a programmer, a stunned otaku.


Summary: The robot version of "She" is a very thoughtful movie. In the film, we are trying to create something to replace us. Will human beings be enslaved or eliminated by artificial intelligence in the future?

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Extended Reading

Ex Machina quotes

  • Caleb: You hacked the world's cell phones?

    Nathan: Yeah. And all the manufacturers knew I was doing it, too. But they couldn't accuse me without admitting they were doing it themselves.

  • Nathan: The good deeds a man has done defends him. The good deeds a man has done defends him. The good deeds a man has done... defends him.