Many people often say "save the best for last" and I believe that my instructor Kristin Kaz did exactly that. In my opinion, Ex-Machina was the best movie that we were assigned to watch this semester for my English 114B class, this science fiction movie is one of the most interesting I have ever watched. There is not a lot of action, but there are a lot of concepts and questions that fly around throughout the movie and the ending leaves a huge debate question that is whether or not Ava would cause human beings harm or if she just acted on behalf of her safety at the end. Because the fact is that only Nathan and Caleb knew that Ava was not a human but an Artificial Intelligence robot acting as a person. Caleb was the one who helped Ava escape but she left him locked in Nathan's room most likely to die, so it seems that Ava was only acting as if she had feelings for Caleb in order to manipulate him so that he could assist her in her escape. Although she doesn't kill Caleb just for knowing that she is an AI robot, she shows mercy and asks him nicely to please stay in the room and just locks him inside. On the other hand, she kills Nathan-- the man who was keeping her imprisoned in a room in his home just because he was running tests on her. But doesn't that mean that she passed his test because he was trying to create a robot that knew how to manipulate her resources in order to accomplish her objectives? She did accomplish escaping even though she had to become a murderer while doing so, with the help of another AI robot who stabbed Nathan through the back meanwhile he was about to crush Ava into bits. It was a very good movie and I liked it very much overall, I would give it good reviews and recommend it to others.
