I have just
watched Ex-Machina (2015) in such a calm and lovely Sunday afternoon. As a
sci-fi maniac and enthusiast of future of machine - human interaction, this
movie has been on my list for a while. I am very glad I did it. Well, it should
not mean that I am totally in love with the movie but instead it made me
realize in a crystal clear vision that the image of science and scientists in
public has taken a steep: scientists of old times with their obsessively
cleaned lab-coats, thick glasses and anti-social behavior has been buried! Now,
is the century for good-looking, sexy, rich scientists and their lost souls...
In Ex-Machina, Oscar Isaac (very cool name) is starring as Nathan Bateman, CEO
of a search engine company (can we say equivalent of Google?) Blue Book. He
lives in an isolated place, in the middle of Nature, where is actually a
research facility that he does some cool stuff in there like creating AI and
lifting weights to stay fit. He also hates to speak like old-fashioned
scientists and avoids using jargon. He likes to stick to street style.
Domhnall
Gleeson (Caleb) is an employee in Blue Book and apparently there was a
competition going on inside the company in which the winner would be prized to
spend one week with Mr Bateman in his house. So the guy ends up in his house
and soon after he learns that the reason of his presence is to test newly
created machine, highly intelligent Ava, whether she is capable of passing the
Turing Test. Ava is a beautiful AI, has perfect body ratio that can manipulate
any men's decision making. So, according to Caleb the Turing Test is biased in
this situation because Ava’s sexuality is clouding his mind. I don’t want to
give more details for those who would like to watch. You can learn after
watching movie, whether Ava passed Turing test or not.
My overall
observation is the new age scientists are imaged as super-hot, muscular or if
woman slim/slender but curvy, fit and so relax… We get used to see scientists
in their lab-coat, exploding things here or there, most probably asexual but
handsome, fit and into sex? It must be a new trend. I also observed this
phenomenon in new trend of “entrepreneurship”. Like Elon Musk… Is it some kind
of selling strategy? Because It was proven that cute faces, men or women, tend
to be more successful in life. People around them tend to trust them more than
to the ones with less cute faces… Can it be the same strategy that Ava did to
Caleb? Or is it simply our thrive for perfection?
Perfection
in mind and body…
