Ex Machina

Ex Machina

Caleb, a promising programmer, gets a unique chance. He becomes a participant in a serious experiment in which a robotic woman takes part. This is a test set up by a reclusive billionaire who lives in the mountains and is developing a unique positronic brain. Caleb has no idea that he is becoming an ordinary pawn in a game that gives two questions for every one answer. As a result, communicating with the android, the main character begins to doubt not only himself, but also the purpose of the experiment. Is the mechanism a victim of the sophisticated mind of a mad inventor? Or maybe Caleb is just going crazy? Read more If you translate the expression "Deus Ex Machina" from Latin, it will mean "God from the machine". In Greek tragedies, this was the name given to the deity who, as part of the performance, appeared as if from nowhere and resolved the conflict. An actor who descended on a special platform ("machine") acted as a deity. For Alex Garland, the technological thriller "Ex Machina" became a directorial debut. Previously, he acted only as a screenwriter and producer, having contributed, for example, to the creation of "28 Weeks Later" (2007) and "Judge Dredd" (2012). While creating the film, he tried to reflect the modern leaps of the technological process. Announcements by Apple or Google about the creation of a thinking intelligence in a fully functioning anthropomorphic shell, we would be surprised, but not to say that very much. Instead of Alicia Vikander, who played the role of Eva (Eva, Ava), the audience could see actress Felicity Jones, but she dropped out of the project. The names of the main characters refer to biblical characters. Thus, Ava is Eve, Caleb is with the person who dealt with Moses, and Nathan is the prosecutor in the case against David. It is interesting that Donal Gleeson, who played a programmer, played the role of a humanoid robot himself in one of the episodes of the series "Black Mirror".