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Ex Machina [DVD] [2015]

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4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,113 ratings
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Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 48 minutes
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From acclaimed writer/director Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine) comes Ex_Machina, a chilling vision of the not-too-distant future of artificial intelligence.

In the mountain retreat of a gifted internet billionaire, a young man takes part in a strange experiment: testing an artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. But the experiment twists into a dark psychological battle, where loyalties are torn between man and machine.

Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alici Vikander lead the cast of Ex_Machina, an intense psychological thriller, played out in a love triangle. The film explores big ideas about the nature of consciousness, emotion, sexuality, truth and lies.

“SMART, FUNNY, GRIPPING AND DISTURBING….STUNNING.” - Chris Tilly, IGN

“EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS.” - TOTAL FILM

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.59 x 7.48 x 5.31 inches; 3.53 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 48 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Pictures UK
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00S2LSALU
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Loong Wun, Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars Bluray movie
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
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Brock
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016
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Another excellent movie about AA. The machine was better than any girl I have dated.
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PJ Appleton
5.0 out of 5 stars Should've been nominated for best picture.
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2016
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The best Science Fiction film I've seen in a long time.
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Rusty
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Science Fiction Film
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2015
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Very good Science Fiction, I highly recommend this film.
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The Cat Mom
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Director
Reviewed in Canada on August 15, 2018
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Excellent movie with a director who is worthy of keeping an eye on.
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JORGE SANZ TERRADA
2.0 out of 5 stars Calidad de imagen sólo aceptable
Reviewed in Spain on March 9, 2018
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No juzgo la película, que es excelente, sino el producto. Según recuerdo, la calidad que tenía la versión antes disponible en streaming en un proveedor que todos conoceréis era mejor. Este Blu-ray casi parece mas un DVD. Esperaré a que esté disponible en UHD 4k.
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ks-koeln
5.0 out of 5 stars "Ex Machina" - ein Volltreffer!
Reviewed in Germany on July 5, 2017
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Dieses SF-Drama hatte bei mir im Vorfeld seiner Veröffentlichung hohe Erwartungen geweckt und konnte sie voll und ganz erfüllen - ein absoluter Volltreffer!

Kammerspielartig, in überzeugender Kulisse und getragen von hervorragenden Darstellerleistungen wird in intelligenten Dialogen und faszinierenden Bildern über die Frage sinniert, was Menschlichkeit ausmacht, ob die erschaffene Künstliche Intelligenz den vorprogrammierten Pfad tatsächlich verlassen hat und als eigenständige Persönlichkeit zu betrachten ist - oder ob sie diesen Anschein nur als Teil ihrer Programmierung erweckt.

"Ex Machina" vermittelt in seinem Verlauf ein langsam, aber sicher zunehmendes Gefühl der Beklemmung, da Nathans futuristische Behausung und Kreativwerkstatt mehr und mehr wie ein Gefängnis erscheint und Caleb aus seinem Vorgesetzten und Gönner einfach nicht schlau wird.
Auch irritiert Caleb die beinahe unheimliche Anziehungskraft, die das Forschungsobjekt Ava auf ihn ausübt - eine Regung, die sich ebenfalls auf den Zuschauer überträgt. Und das ist auch kein Wunder, präsentiert sich hier doch eines der faszinierendsten Robotergeschöpfe der Filmgeschichte.

In den Gesprächen der überzeugenden Hauptfiguren wird über die Vorzüge technischen Fortschritts sowie das Wesen des Menschen reflektiert, jedoch ohne dass der Film dabei zu einer trockenen Vorlesung verkommen würde. Stattdessen wächst die Spannung stetig an, bis sie sich in einem überraschenden und eindrucksvollen Schlussakt entlädt.

Wie schon geschrieben, ist "Ex Machina" für mich ein absoluter Volltreffer, vor allem die KI Ava ist ein tricktechnisches Designwunder, sie wird von der mir beim Erscheinen des Films noch völlig unbekannten schwedischen Schauspielerin Alicia Vikander (inzwischen Oscarpreisträgerin) auch perfekt verkörpert.

Durch die Dialoglastigkeit und die dadurch geforderte Aufmerksamkeit des Zuschauers ist "Ex Machina" aber sicher weniger für SF-Freunde geeignet, die sich eher von bombastischen Effekten beeindrucken lassen und ihr Hirn dabei nicht allzusehr anstrengen möchten. Wer aber an "Laberfilmen" Geschmack finden kann, dürfte bei diesem Film wohl gut aufgehoben sein.
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J. L. Sievert
5.0 out of 5 stars Ego trip
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2016
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This film asks several important philosophical questions, inadvertently or not.

• What is human if what we think it is can be artificially replicated?

• If consciousness can be created, does it prove that it’s not a delusion (which some neuroscientists think it is)?

• What happens to God when man becomes one?

• What do words such as ‘sacred’, ‘soul’, ‘spirit’, ‘divine’, ‘transcendent’ or ‘holy’ mean post-AI, if anything?

• What of morality, perhaps man’s finest cultural invention?

• If curiosity killed the cat, will it kill us too?

• Was endgame preprogrammed into us from the start? Are we predisposed to suicide? Is man congenitally mad?

• What, in a related development, do the existence of 15,000 armed nuclear warheads in the world say about us as a species?

• Also related, why do we continue to foul our own nest, to behave as though this planet’s resources are infinite when we know with absolute
certainty they are not?

The premise of the film is simple enough and hinges on the so-called Turing Test. Alan Turing (1912-54) was a brilliant British mathematician and wartime codebreaker — see Codebreaker (2014), an excellent docu-drama on his life, or the equally superb feature film on his intelligence heroics during the Second World War, The Imitation Game (2014), an Academy Award winner. Turing is also regarded as the father of modern computing, computers and AI.

The Turing Test requires at least three participants or entities: (1) a machine (computer, robot), (2) a human being (who interacts with the machine, usually verbally), and (3) a neutral human observer whom the first two participants are not aware of/cannot see. The test is not scientific and cannot be. It is subjective, based on the assessments and conclusions of the observer. Thus by make-up and design it is philosophical, not scientific in any empirical way.

The test in a sense is quite simple, even if its methods are not. Its purpose is to help the neutral observer distinguish between human and artificial intelligence. If the machine passes the test, it means the observer cannot determine if its intelligence is human or artificial, so by default in a way it can be regarded as human (whether it is or isn’t), as the effect is the same (human-like and human essentially indistinguishable). If the machine fails, it means its AI has failed to convince an observer that it is human.

It stands to reason, and is suggested in the film, that the more sophisticated OS programmes become, the harder it will be for an observer to distinguish human intelligence from AI; or, put the other way round, the easier it will be for machines equipped with AI to fool humans by passing themselves off as human among humans. Did I say “fool humans”? Yes, I did, which is exactly the philosophical dilemma this fine film faces.

The Latin term from Greek ‘deus ex machina’ refers to a plot device that seeks to resolve seemingly untenable difficulties in a story, successfully working its way out of paradoxes or ambiguity. This situation sometimes is also called the ghost in the machine, an unseen force that tries to make sense of things by reducing contradictions in a story. The human mind strives for patterns, order, clarity, reason. It hates loose ends, unresolved difficulties. It wants stories to make sense. But to their credit, the producers, director and writer of this film demonstrate that such neat endings may not be possible where paradox and ambiguity are overwhelming.

The plot of the film has been written about, discussed and debated extensively by others. Instead of tackling that subject, I’ll just mention the three main characters briefly now.

Nathan Bateman (played by Oscar Isaac) is the mad scientist, the Dr. Frankenstein of the piece. Rich, eccentric and experimental, he’s a software and digital genius, the CEO of a computer company in the city. But he spends most of his time tinkering in the bunker (built underground in a wild and remote landscape best reached by helicopter). His ego game is to create a perfection that God and nature have failed to devise. Here his ‘monsters’ take shape, intelligent and interactive female androids, young and beautiful. They are aesthetically and sexually attractive because Nathan likes them that way. The idea of the perfect woman interests him. If she can’t be found in nature and society, he will create her. Nathan is on an ego trip, as all megalomaniacs are, everything made subservient to his will to power. He is not short on confidence and self-esteem.

Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) is a 26-year-old software programmer who works in the city for Nathan’s company. He’s a human guinea pig selected by Nathan for his Turing Test experiment, though Caleb is unaware of having been selected (he thinks he has won an online contest on the merit of his video game-playing skills).

Alicia Vikander (Ava, the android) is a beautiful actress in at least two senses of the word. First, she is lovely to look at. She is physically beautiful, even if in this case she’s mostly made up of plastic, metal and electrical wiring. Second, she is beautiful in her art, her craft. At times her flat voice sounds artificial, clearly contrived. But in other moments she’s capable of deep emotion and this is reflected by the voice. If I were blindfolded and put in the same room with her, there isn’t any way during those moments of tenderness I would think she is a machine. I might love her for her compassion and empathy.

It’s interesting, I suppose, that the heroic anti-hero of George Orwell’s novel 1984 was named Smith (first name Winston, whom Orwell said he named after Churchill). Our hero here is also a Smith, an everyman named Caleb. You or I, put in Caleb Smith’s position, would probably go just as batty as he does. Is Ava real, an authentic woman? She sure seems to be. But Smith knows she is artificial. Or, he knows it rationally, intellectually. He knows Nathan has designed and built her. Or, as time in Caleb’s confined condition passes, has he? Nathan reveals nothing. He is the observer. At least ostensibly. But we know he is machiavellian. There can be no neutrality with him. What he wants is for Caleb to lose his faculties of reason so completely that he falls in love with Ava. If this happens, Ava passes the Turing Test. And if that happens….

The deus ex machina of the drama tries to find a way out of the impasse we are led into. Crises occur and sparks will fly. There will be a winner and more than one loser. If we’re still not quite enlightened at the end of the film it’s because paradox and ambiguity are built into the situation. Perhaps there are no comfortable answers to the questions raised by the film. Maybe that’s precisely what it wants to say — namely, that we can never know the future, so we don’t know where this story is headed.

But there are still questions to be asked. What will it mean in the future if we love robots and they love us? What will happen to human love, meaning love exclusively between humans? Why is this apparent future being created, and for whom? Where will the Dr. Frankensteins lead us and why will we choose to follow them? Who will rise from our ranks to terminate the terminators of our humanity?

If this film disturbs you, that’s a good sign. You are not an android yet. Your heart, not a battery pack, powers you.
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Robin
1.0 out of 5 stars Broken box and arrived two months too late.
Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2022
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The box/case for the dvd was broken to pieces. I was lucky that the cd was fine. It was supposed to arrive within the week but it arrived several months later. I only ordered it because I had to do a school assignment on it and watch it. Needless to say. I failed it because my prof wouldn’t give me an extension even after showing him that it was going to take several months.
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