Ex Machina
There is nothing more human than the will to survive.
Synopsis
Watch online Ex Machina (2015), Alex Garland's science-fiction drama, streaming on iFILM. It was his directing debut, claustrophobic and quietly unnerving.
A young coder named Caleb wins an odd prize: a week at the mountain retreat of Nathan, the reclusive billionaire who runs the world's largest tech company. Rest is not on the agenda. Nathan (Oscar Isaac) has built an artificial intelligence housed in a robot called Ava, and Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) must judge whether she is truly conscious. Alicia Vikander plays Ava so precisely that the line between machine and person all but dissolves.
Garland made a sharp film about trust, manipulation, and who is really testing whom. A handful of rooms, three actors, the heavy silence of a glass house. It won the Academy Award for visual effects. Stream Ex Machina on iFILM for a cold, exacting thriller about AI.
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