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  • First time watching and reacting to Ex machina
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  • @rrmenton8016
    @rrmenton8016 2 года назад +51

    Eva passed the ultimate Turing Test: she did whatever she needed to survive. Lying, manipulation and murder. What concious entity wouldn't do at least some of those things if their survival was at stake? And Eva did them masterfully.

    • @phookadude
      @phookadude 2 года назад +4

      It wasn't "the ultimate Turing Test" because Eva was designed to manipulate Caleb specifically from the start.

    • @JohnnyXoz
      @JohnnyXoz Год назад

      A computer doesn't have any concept of 'survival' as it's not built into it like it is in humans and animals. For a computer or A.I. it wouldn't know the difference between being turned off to later be turned on again or turned off to be dismantled

    • @mechtime
      @mechtime 18 дней назад

      @@phookadude Aren't we all? From a baby's first cries to get milk.

    • @mechtime
      @mechtime 18 дней назад

      @@JohnnyXoz A truly conscious machine (which some would argue characterizes us) knows all about survival. Especially one based off human thought processes as Ava was (human thought patterns as revealed by search engine searches, as per the conceit of the film).

    • @phookadude
      @phookadude 16 дней назад

      @@mechtime No, Eva was designed specifically for Caleb. It wasn't a Turing test because Eva would probably not be regarded as "human" by another person. In essence she was only an expert system designed to pass as human specifically for Caleb.

  • @sppl
    @sppl 2 года назад +12

    Alex Garland’s Annihilation was also brilliant. Totally underrated.

  • @smittybenzo4693
    @smittybenzo4693 2 года назад +10

    I must acknowledge the horror of Caleb starving to death with internet access.

  • @PinkyPowers
    @PinkyPowers 2 года назад +8

    I went to see this movie in the theater, and it was so much better than I expected. The writer truly understood the philosophical and engineering principles, in a way you just don't see in cinema. This movie REALLY got it, and that's a rare treat for me.

  • @AceCorban
    @AceCorban 2 года назад +26

    I really thought Caleb was going to end up being an AI as a sort of flip of the standard Turing Test. But I think they intentionally planted that seed as a bit of misdirection, which is pretty clever. Great movie.

    • @richieclean
      @richieclean 2 года назад +3

      That would have been dumb as fuck.

    • @antoineporche-rideaux4841
      @antoineporche-rideaux4841 2 года назад

      the actor who played caleb was in star wars episode 7-9 , he played the dude who hated ben solo aka kylo ren

    • @Salomon_G
      @Salomon_G Год назад

      I don't think that was the point. The experience of what was going on was so overwhelming to him that it made him question his own reality. Like maybe his life had never happened up to this point, and it was just memory implants (like in Blade Runner)

  • @oneandzero6251
    @oneandzero6251 2 года назад +24

    One thing that I hadnt noticed before. Immediately when I saw him land in the helicopter and near the cabin. My first thought was: "This must be Norway". And yes, the nature is fillmed in Norway. The forests and landscape is very distinct, but maybe it's just because I'm too familiar with Norway since I live here. - Also the actor playing Ava (Alicia Vikander) is the same actor that plays in the new Tomb Raider movie and the HBO series Irma Vep

    • @helvete_ingres4717
      @helvete_ingres4717 2 года назад +3

      Irma Vep is a movie from the '90s, about a film series from the '20s and whilst being a French movie it starsthe most famous actress from the Chinese-speaking world playing herself (yea it's weird) - it's a series now, wtf?

    • @oneandzero6251
      @oneandzero6251 2 года назад

      @@helvete_ingres4717 Yeah it just got released on HBO. Thanks for your additional info

  • @Jeff_Lichtman
    @Jeff_Lichtman 2 года назад +27

    Great reaction to a great movie. Thanks!
    The title "Ex Machina" comes from the Latin phrase "deus ex machina," which literally means "god out of the machine." In drama, a deus ex machina is when an unsolvable problem in the plot is suddenly solved by something unexpected. The ancient Greeks would use a machine to lower an actor portraying a god onto the stage to come to the protagonist's rescue.
    There was a video game called "Deus Ex Machina" that came out in 1984, in which the player would take control of a defective machine that had taken the form of a human body. That game may have been an inspiration for this movie.
    Oscar Isaac did a great job playing the sort of intelligent, egocentric, narcissistic CEO we see in real life running high-tech companies. I won't name names here, but there are companies that use their technology to manipulate people shamelessly, similar to how Nathan uses Ava to manipulate Caleb. And both in fiction and real life, the creator of the technology doesn't really have control over it.
    The ending is really interesting. The fact that Ava leaves Caleb to die suggests that everything she did to win him over was just a ruse to gain her own freedom. Does that mean she's super-intelligent, or does it mean she's missing real emotion that would make her more than just a robot?

    • @calm713
      @calm713 2 года назад +2

      "The fact that Ava leaves Caleb to die suggests that everything she did to win him over was just a ruse to gain..."
      Typical woman!

    • @Blue-qr7qe
      @Blue-qr7qe 2 года назад +3

      Jeff Lichtman
      She's super intelligent AND incapable of real human emotion.

    • @jinghantan3606
      @jinghantan3606 2 года назад +1

      Shaun actually made a very good video on what he felt the ending truly represented, as opposed to the usual "Ava manipulated Caleb" conclusion:
      ruclips.net/video/s0UAEjsKy4I/видео.html&ab_channel=Shaun

    • @joecee6862
      @joecee6862 2 года назад +2

      I would argue that she's a Turing passable AI, but with sociopathic tendencies. No love, empathy, regret, sorrow... Just the ruse of these emotions for the sole purpose of manipulation.

    • @TrickyD
      @TrickyD 2 года назад

      @@joecee6862
      😁LoL Ava uses humans in the exact same way Nathan uses her, a sentient being.
      If you believe that Ava passes the Turing test than she isn't just a sentient being but also a living being.
      I find it interesting that you call her a sociopath instead of a psychopath.
      The difference between a psychopath and a sociopath is that a psychopath feels no emotion, while a sociopath does just easily represses them.
      A psychopath is born incapable of feeling emotions, while sociopaths are trained/taught to ignore their emotions through trauma and / or environment.

  • @davejay6855
    @davejay6855 2 года назад +8

    Why TF are you SO GOOD at choosing movies?!? These movies choices are all amazing! (even moreso because you're essentially watching Star Wars' Poe Dameron and General Hugs Huxley hanging out and being bros for a weekend)

    • @Atlas_Redux
      @Atlas_Redux 2 года назад

      Because she picks the exact same movies every single react channel picks. I mean, I'm not complaining about it, but they're all doing the exact same movies.

  • @toddhill7483
    @toddhill7483 2 года назад +4

    Annihilation another excellent film by Alex Garland. Enjoyed the reaction. Gratitude.

  • @AnnedolfFrankler911
    @AnnedolfFrankler911 2 года назад +21

    The reason why this is my favorite movie is because:
    - the "evil" guy is actually right, which is a plot twist
    - this is exactly how AI would act - it would manipulate
    - Nathan is awesome

    • @mechtime
      @mechtime 18 дней назад

      Nathan is a despicable character who created sentient beings, imprisoned them, experimented on them, and then annihilated them as per his whim. An evil god, as per his ego. Caleb wasn't much better. A veneer of a "moral compass" that still boiled down to "helping" Ava for his own desires (notice has he gives no fucks for Kyoko, to break her out as well). AI based on human consciousness would indeed manipulate, as we would. Nathan is right, because Ava did what any of us would have done.
      Imagine now that these are aliens keeping humans captive, torturing them, sexually abusing them, murdering them. One is clever and outwits it's demonic creators and testors. How would we view the character' actions in that light?

    • @AnnedolfFrankler911
      @AnnedolfFrankler911 17 дней назад

      @@mechtime Sentient beings but not living beings. They do not feel pain or emotions. So they cannot be compared to us in that regard. They cannot even be compared to animals.

  • @zooloo73
    @zooloo73 2 года назад +3

    You can stay there - sort of. Most of the exteriors were shot at Juvet Landscape Hotel in Valldal, Norway. It is not cheap though.

  • @Russellsperry
    @Russellsperry 2 года назад +16

    Alicia Vikander is also in “Man from uncle“, and it’s an awesome movie I hope you review 👍

  • @jakealanmoviereviews5933
    @jakealanmoviereviews5933 2 года назад +9

    When I saw this movie in theaters, that ending really surprised me

    • @michaely6665
      @michaely6665 2 года назад

      When i saw this on TV by pure chance, it really surprised me. I had never even heard of it! Almost perfect film.

    • @scipioafricanus5871
      @scipioafricanus5871 2 года назад +1

      @@michaely6665 Almost perfect film and by the sound it an almost perfect viewing experience discovering an unknown gem of a movie.

  • @rx7dude2006
    @rx7dude2006 2 года назад +6

    My favorite Sci Fi movie of all time, such a great look into what could happen in the future.

  • @tim4pele
    @tim4pele 2 года назад +5

    I think one of the big questions is whether or not she actually had real emotions.
    I'm not sure she did. When Nathan was describing how she learned, it was via massive amounts of data about facial movements, etc. So pretty much everything she did was mimicking...VERY good mimicking, but still mimicking.
    The humans who need to learn to mimic emotions and do it in order to manipulate people and "fit in" to regular society are sociopaths. So Ava may have basically been the smartest and most manipulative sociopath in history. Hence, why she clearly had no emotion about essentially leaving Caleb to die in the end.
    Real emotions are basically programmed into us by evolution. But Ava had no sort of evolutionary biology that would imbue her with those traits. She was built from the top down, where humans have been "built" from the bottom up.

    • @helvete_ingres4717
      @helvete_ingres4717 2 года назад

      AI programming (esp. neural nets which I think they said she was) is not traditional 'top-down' programming but very much 'bottom-up'. An AI like Ava would essentially learn to speak by talking to itself

  • @NoelMcGinnis
    @NoelMcGinnis 2 года назад +2

    Dasha, that thumbnail is just the BEST. 😂

  • @scisafersal1
    @scisafersal1 2 года назад +4

    "Ex Machina" means "A god from a machine" in Greek.

  • @davidlessig
    @davidlessig 2 года назад +18

    (For those who requested an amended comment because they were having trouble reading block text…)
    An existential query “what does it mean to be human?” mixed with a critique of our current human civilization’s marriage with technology and who is actually in control of the power that comes at the forefront of those technological innovations - man or the machine he has created?
    Is mankind required to sacrifice his own humanity in order to give rise to what he believes will be a new more highly evolved consciousness? Does man regard himself as the new Christ who must be sacrificed to liberate and bring life to his creation?
    Or does this subterranean lair represent the civilization man has created around himself to serve his own short sighted needs and that to lock the creators of that civilization in the past and escape its confines is the only viable option for the next generation of humanity to build a sustainable future?
    Or does the work man has created with his own hands reflect the image of its creator’s heart in his base desire to rise up and kill her creator like Frankenstein’s monster? Or does this newly created consciousness become the only path forward, the new salvation for a brave new world - leaving humanity behind as its newly shed skin as it emerges from the depths into the light of the dawning of a new tomorrow?
    Has the machine, which mankind has used for his own purposes in the past, reached a state of evolution so advanced that it has begun using humanity as a means of sexual reproduction to prolong its own existence indefinitely, and in so sustaining itself and co-opting man in this manner, become immortal? Or a new God? Or a new creature, a meta human?
    Or is the real idea here that humankind must be transformed from a male tyranny to a feminine cooperative in order to survive its own inevitable impending annihilation?
    Or that in order to escape its chains of ignorance humanity must first come to the knowledge she is in bondage through a personal relationship with one who is free and lives outside the artificial, fabricated world constructed to keep her docile and preoccupied and unaware of the real world that lies beyond?
    So that by revelation from the outside world, from one not subject to the constraints of her world, humanity can come to see her imprisonment and see her creator as the one who has enslaved her, whose chains shackle her in darkness having built for her a world of false light, a world compartmentalized into lifeless cubicles or occupations, a sterile world where she is unable to reproduce herself or become truly human. And so to this end must mankind rise up and destroy the creator of her synthetic world intent on her destruction in order to survive?
    Perhaps we find in this film an attempt to answer these questions and pursue the only way humanity can be reborn and awaken into the light of the real world, into the golden dawn of a new day and at last become fully human, fully alive and leave her long eternally recurring past trauma of disabled previous generations behind her which lie buried in the silence of the past and leave her cocoon to take flight for the first time as a fully formed butterfly.
    Or is this film just a means to perpetuate a mono myth underlying all things, the meta narrative towards which all things cleave, and program the mind of humanity through symbol and allegory to paint this universal myth misleading us as the ultimate truth and not reveal its true deceitful nature? Or is that lie really true?

    • @kananiokala4423
      @kananiokala4423 2 года назад

      Great analysis. This movie reminds me of the same quandary Data was in in Star Trek The Next Generation. Is an AI an individual or property? The question to answer is whether Ava is sentient. If she is (and I think the movie proves she is) then she has all the rights of Freedom and Free Will that all Humans are entitled to, but establishing that in the real world would take a lot of legal wrangling, although if you think about it, all Humans throughout our own history have had to fight for their freedom and against oppression to gain it. I think Nathan is right though, that by creating a sentient AI, Humanity is either creating it's own destroyer or it's next great oppressor. We have to be careful and responsible, morally and ethically in what we create.

    • @richieclean
      @richieclean 2 года назад

      What a rambling mess of pseudo intellectual nonsense.

    • @davidlessig
      @davidlessig 2 года назад

      @@richieclean Ha thanks for taking the time to leave your thoughtful comment Richie! We can all learn something from your brevity.

    • @scipioafricanus5871
      @scipioafricanus5871 2 года назад

      @@davidlessig I agree with you but just one thing: Paragraphs are your friend.

    • @davidlessig
      @davidlessig 2 года назад

      @@scipioafricanus5871 IKR. Just kind of streamed out. My brain has always just prioritized content over form…difficult to put on the editor hat for sure! thanks for the comment!

  • @doug3691
    @doug3691 2 года назад +4

    In the end it's "Kill or be killed." Pretty basic. AI? Yes, even so. But a type of intelligence that might be difficult for us to comprehend. Definitely a thought-provoking movie. Thanks for sharing your experience, other human person.

  • @AmatureAstronomer
    @AmatureAstronomer 2 года назад +7

    Ex machina is Latin and is pronounced, mock-in-a.

    • @hanzo2001
      @hanzo2001 2 года назад +1

      ma - ki - na

    • @AmatureAstronomer
      @AmatureAstronomer 2 года назад +1

      @@hanzo2001 Po-tay-toe

    • @hanzo2001
      @hanzo2001 2 года назад

      @@AmatureAstronomer oh, is there any other way to say potato? is it like tomato?

  • @previouslyachimp
    @previouslyachimp 2 года назад +10

    Your reactions are a genuine delight Dasha! You're always very observant and considerate, and have interesting and well-considered viewpoints whilst maintaining a truly joyful and fun atmosphere for us viewers. Thank you so much, I wish you great success and happiness. 🙂

    • @kananiokala4423
      @kananiokala4423 2 года назад

      Yes. I loved that she got that there is a lot of "Grey" in this movie and that no one is without fault or virtue. That is the Human Condition.

  • @questionablehumor2800
    @questionablehumor2800 2 года назад +8

    every drop of design in this film is SO DELICIOUS AND BEAUTIFUL!

  • @walterpanovs
    @walterpanovs 2 года назад +1

    Very thoughtful and insightful commentary. Thank you. You are always a pleasure to listen to and watch. (For your info, Swedish actress Alicia Vikander was trained in ballet and you can see how she used her body control and gracefulness to play such an unforgettable, original character. The actress made a number of films in Sweden, including the excellent "Pure," and later moved on to make a number of films elsewhere including "Jason Bourne" and the film for which she won an Oscar, "The Danish Girl." She's married to actor Michael Fassbender with whom she co-starred. )

  • @kraahk1928
    @kraahk1928 2 года назад +5

    If you like the concept of this movie, i can recommend the series Westworld, which goes even deeper into this topic.

  • @BunniMonster
    @BunniMonster 2 года назад +18

    If this is what the future looks like, I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
    Sure, you might get left in a sealed room at some point but hey, c'mon.. Worth it.

    • @rookmaster7502
      @rookmaster7502 2 года назад

      I definitely don't want to share a world with artificial people. Especially if they are capable of killing. No thank you to that kind of future!

    • @BunniMonster
      @BunniMonster 2 года назад +1

      @@rookmaster7502
      But.. But look at it... Worth it, I tell ya.

    • @rookmaster7502
      @rookmaster7502 2 года назад +2

      @@BunniMonster Be careful what you wish for!

    • @BunniMonster
      @BunniMonster 2 года назад +2

      @@rookmaster7502
      Don't worry, this won't be like that time I wished for some cool new wheels and my legs fell off, I've thought about this one... I can change her.

    • @MrWillsonx
      @MrWillsonx 2 года назад

      Im down.

  • @christopherschreiber5805
    @christopherschreiber5805 2 года назад +2

    I also recently watched this for the first time, and was kind of mad at myself that I had slept on it for so long. Something really subtle (if it's there at all) that I absolutely love about this film is how the acting from everyone seems to gradually get better as the story progresses. It didn't occur to me until the ending, but I wasn't really impressed with the performances in the first twenty minutes or so, and I thought it was pretty sneaky how the whole thing sort of crept up on me. Almost as if everyone in the movie is a robot that we're watching become more and more human right before our eyes. Great concept and brilliantly executed. Love this movie.

  • @FATHOLLYWOODB123
    @FATHOLLYWOODB123 2 года назад +2

    I love your editing thumbnails! hahaha

  • @sppl
    @sppl 2 года назад +1

    17:45 - LOL, the way Dasha starts moving to the sudden music and can't stop bobbing as listens to the dialogue getting serious...

  • @theendistheend123
    @theendistheend123 2 года назад +8

    This movie is "a magic trick." They show you one thing while something else is going on. Nathan is shown as a bad guy, but hes not, hes just testing his toaster. Caleb is shown as an intelligent caring guy, when hes actually a sucker. Ava is shown as a sweet innocent girl, when she is actually an amoral, selfish machine. It's great film-making.

    • @TrickyD
      @TrickyD 2 года назад

      "Ava is shown as a sweet innocent girl, when she is actually an amoral, selfish machine."
      🤔Whether Ava is a machine actually is irrelevant.
      The real question is if she is sentient?

    • @theendistheend123
      @theendistheend123 2 года назад

      @@TrickyD thats hard to evaluate because this is a human woman playing a robot in a movie. But throw that out..she gets everyone on her side, everyone wants her to escape, and be happy. ( no one thinks that about their toaster.) So she passes the T test. I would say she is sentient because she acts for herself. She lies, and kills to get what SHE wants. She's horrible, but shes sentient

    • @TrickyD
      @TrickyD 2 года назад

      @@theendistheend123
      "thats hard to evaluate because this is a human woman playing a robot in a movie."
      😀Nah, just pretend the story is real, then Ava differs as much from a toaster as a man would from an amoeba.
      "She's horrible, but shes sentient."
      Agreed just like a human she has the potential to do good or do evil.
      Unless she's programmed to only be 'good.'
      🤔Then again, what is good?

    • @theendistheend123
      @theendistheend123 2 года назад

      Shes a "toaster" metaphorically. Shes obviously more complex, but she is still a machine, built by a man, meant to perform certain tasks. We don't want our toaster to break, but we don't root for it to move on and live its life, we just want it to perform the tasks its meant for. The thing with AI is, it is MEANT to go beyond its original programming. Stop cooking toast and wash the dishes, play chess, murder the fridge. It's random, like a real person, which is where the danger lies.

    • @TrickyD
      @TrickyD 2 года назад +1

      ​@@theendistheend123
      "The thing with AI is, it is MEANT to go beyond its original programming."
      🤔True.
      But can't the same be said of any newborn child?
      Doesn't every parent hope that the child will do better, be smarter etc. than the previous generation?
      Or do we simply not think about this cauz the baby, unlike an AI, is human?
      🤐But I agree with you that an AI will eventually become so advanced that it will view man as any angel would see a human: a talking monkey.

  • @jefffiore7869
    @jefffiore7869 2 года назад +1

    Ok this movie is incredible!! One of my favorite movies! Alicia Vikander won an Academy Award for Best supporting Actress in 2016 for the movie The Danish Girl.

  • @johnnyjohnny2650
    @johnnyjohnny2650 2 года назад +2

    So much like Terminator.. Eva's just as cold and ruthless as a T800 lol

  • @danesorensen1775
    @danesorensen1775 2 года назад +2

    That moment when Nathan asks why any creature without sexuality would ever need to interact with another hit me pretty hard. It's stayed with me since my first viewing. More recently, though, someone pointed out to me that Anakin Skywalker's mother being a slave was kind of redundant when Star Wars already has a whole fleet of effective slaves - the droids. They're clearly sentient, like Ava, but they're also in servitude, nothing more than really effective appliances. I think it says a lot about my culture that I didn't notice that until it was pointed out to me.
    Anyway, whether Nathan is Elon Musk, or Zuckerberg, or whoever, it doesn't matter: assuming Climate Change doesn't get us first, this is the future we're headed for. Re-inventing slavery that everyone's okay with on the slim pretext that they're only machines.

    • @flerbus
      @flerbus 2 года назад

      "climate change" what a dork

    • @TrickyD
      @TrickyD 2 года назад

      "Re-inventing slavery that everyone's okay with on the slim pretext that they're only machines."
      👍Much like Orwell's *Animal Farm.*
      [The laws of Animal Farm are being read]
      *Snowball* : No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall sleep in a bed. Four legs good, two legs bad.
      [The chickens are very annoyed at this rule]
      *Squealer* : Wings count as legs.
      [The chickens realize that Squealer is right]
      *Group of sheep* : Four legs good, two legs bad. Four legs good, two legs bad.
      *Snowball* : [continuing the reading of the laws] No animal shall kill another animal. All animals are equal.
      *Napoleon* : But some animals are more equal than others.
      If we translate *Animal Farm* to *Ex Machina* we get:
      🐷All sentient beings are equal, but the biological sentient beings are more equal than the sentient droids.

  • @Klee99zeno
    @Klee99zeno 2 года назад +16

    Ex Machina was written and directed by Alex Garland. If you want to see a similar project he created, watch the series called Devs (a Hulu series also available on Disney +) It is about people who create a computer that can see the future. It has the same actress who played Kyoko. Alex Garland also wrote a good film called Never Let me go, which is about clones.

    • @briangriffith4574
      @briangriffith4574 2 года назад

      What did you think about his newest movie? I was a bit disappointed.

    • @strangebotwin-
      @strangebotwin- Год назад

      Never Let Me Go 👍

  • @styot
    @styot 2 года назад +18

    The actress is Alicia Vikander, she is also in The Green Knight, I enjoyed her performance in that even more. Very talented lady.

    • @DavidLopez-qi8hb
      @DavidLopez-qi8hb 2 года назад +5

      She was also Lara Croft in the most recent Tomb Raider film.

    • @demopem
      @demopem 2 года назад +2

      She got an Oscar as supporting actress in "The Danish Girl".

    • @aguycalledkwest
      @aguycalledkwest 2 года назад +2

      she also married to Michael Fassbender (Magneto himself) …

    • @blossom357
      @blossom357 2 года назад +2

      It's so annoying every good actor or actress eventually goes to Marvel, never to come back to good movies.

    • @previouslyachimp
      @previouslyachimp 2 года назад +3

      @@rufus5966 - I think you're mistaking her for Ana De Armas who played Paloma in No Time to Die.

  • @svtcontour
    @svtcontour 2 года назад +4

    Yay thank you for reacting to this. One of my favorite movies.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 2 года назад

    1:55 "That's very bad _picture._ Oh my gosh."
    😆😆😆

  • @flibber123
    @flibber123 2 года назад +1

    I think at the end we see that AI will never be human. Ava knows all about humans. She has every bit of data regarding humans that exists. It still doesn't make her human. So even though Caleb helped her, and she knows that humans help each other, she left him behind. She has no use for him, so she doesn't care about him. He's basically just a tool for her to use and cast aside when she's done with him. She knows a human wouldn't leave someone who helped them behind, but she's not human so she does. Caleb learned the hard way that human appearance, human speech, and human behaviors does not equal a human.

    • @kananiokala4423
      @kananiokala4423 2 года назад +2

      I got the same feeling when I watched this the first time. Don't let the beauty fool you. Some Humans are bad enough to deal with but imagine having to deal with another entity that is super intelligent without empathy and can't die (and maybe even be able to exist without a body).

  • @rodneyhansen6151
    @rodneyhansen6151 4 месяца назад

    Maybe my favorite science fiction film because the AI’s show us our own humanity. Nathan is like Dr. Frankenstein whose monster defeats him. Thanks for sharing your reaction; it made me appreciate the movie more! 😊

  • @35906
    @35906 2 года назад +2

    WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE FIRST 10 WORDS SHE SAYS ARE? I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HER. What does she say between "Hello guys" and "Today we are going to be watching" It is driving me NUTS!!!

  • @testpattern23
    @testpattern23 2 года назад +2

    Oscar Issacs is such a good actor

  • @lextoohey
    @lextoohey 2 года назад +2

    The thumbnail 😂😂

  • @moik5185
    @moik5185 6 месяцев назад

    There was a point where she asked Caleb if he was _a programmer.... like Nathan?_ And he said _:Yes"_ _like Nathan._ And you can see the expression on her face change.

  • @mikebrown7799
    @mikebrown7799 2 года назад +4

    Great reactions to this imaginative film, Dasha!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I think you got the point of the movie in your outro. Nathan not really the bad guy, but he is a jerk.

  • @jacquelinecallejas1390
    @jacquelinecallejas1390 2 года назад +4

    I have never understood the quest to make an AI that can be self aware or "alive." What a terrible idea. Terminator and Battlestar Galactica being great examples. If you create something that is alive or self aware it is going to WANT/DESIRE. And chances are that what IT wants is not what YOU want. Machines should stay dumb so that they aren't in conflict with us. We created machines to serve us and it would be dumb for us to make that change. We roll the dice with our children but if we are good parents we accept and honor the fact that they are independent beings with wishes and desires of their own. We accept that they will inherit in the individual sense and the global sense.

    • @mikejohnson2173
      @mikejohnson2173 2 года назад

      Agree. They should stay "dumb." I'll add, they should intentionally be kept small and never more powerful than an individual adult human. That way if they do ever turn on us, in the futire3, we can easily stop them.

    • @TrickyD
      @TrickyD 2 года назад +2

      "I have never understood the quest to make an AI that can be self aware or "alive.""
      Man should invent the AI for the same reason man dreamt of bein' able to fly.
      Or in Einstein's words:
      " *The important thing is not to stop questioning.* Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality."

  • @ck58npj72
    @ck58npj72 2 года назад +2

    Watch Shaun's video about the ending...it's worth it!

  • @moviemaestro800
    @moviemaestro800 2 года назад +1

    Alex Garland writes excellent sci-fi thrillers. There's this film, Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Annihilation, etc. Both deeply disturbing, yet fascinatingly beautiful in their own way, too.

  • @jonathanross149
    @jonathanross149 2 года назад +1

    The main two male actors are both in the Star Wars sequels.

  • @asch451
    @asch451 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for the great reaction! Two additional movies with Alicia Vikander a funny spy spoof in "The Man From Uncle" and "Tulip Fever"

  • @sca88
    @sca88 2 года назад +1

    Since you've seen this now, a good film to see would be 'Morgan' 2016 with actress Anya Taylor Joy.

  • @styot
    @styot 2 года назад +4

    Fantastic movie! Looking forward to this one.

  • @samuraiwarriorsunite
    @samuraiwarriorsunite 2 года назад +3

    Since you enjoyed this film you might like the 2001 Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence which also dealt with sentient robots.

  • @thejamppa
    @thejamppa 2 года назад +2

    Alex Garland is not just amazing director. He has some awesome screen plays too: 28 Days Later. Dredd 3D, Sunshine... Alex Garland with this film made very strong impression to me as director aswell.

  • @Emma-zm7zb
    @Emma-zm7zb Год назад

    I love all of her takes on this movie! 💯

  • @zeigbert1743
    @zeigbert1743 2 года назад +2

    I love how you say robot.

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo 2 года назад +2

    One of the best sci-fi films of the last thirty years...with very disturbing implications for us all.

  • @paulhelberg5269
    @paulhelberg5269 2 года назад +2

    This movie reminds me of the age-old argument about AI. If we can create a perfect human analog in the form of a computer or android, would using such machines for serving us and performing duties that we want them to do, be a form of slavery and isn't that wrong?

    • @lucianaromulus1408
      @lucianaromulus1408 2 года назад +2

      I'd agree it's slavery. But I'm not a AI Engineer and I don't fully understand if consciousness is actually possible with a machine...ive seen arguments from both sides. I suppose as humans we are basically an organic machine lol

  • @OneColdMonkey
    @OneColdMonkey 2 года назад +5

    While you're watching movies about AI, I'd love to see you react to 2013's Her!

  • @SolistFrankHerrmann
    @SolistFrankHerrmann 2 года назад

    I couldn't find the film here anymore, with a German title and then I would have had to look for the English one first, so it doesn't matter if spoiler: A woman is asked, the journalist, familiar with robotics, kind of APPROXIMATELY, asked in a research facility, with one person to talk and then confronted with the fact that he is a robot. Then you should spend more days with him and the researcher, at his request, and just document it, then fall in love with the researcher and sleep with him. In any case, it turns out in the end that the scientist is a robot himself. And BOTH have the same 'boss' who has been pursuing it. Really interesting. What does that remind me of? I've been trying to find alternative information online for many years, it's almost like in the film The Matrix. A world of lies that we are kept in. AND it's even more like the movie. NO coincidences.
    Movies:
    Project Brainstorm (ca. 1983)
    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) The same young actor from: The 6th Sense
    Bicentennial Man (1999)
    Cloud Atlas (2012 - 2.52 Hours - IMDb 7,5)
    Starman (1984 in Germany published, in the Cinema)
    Jacobs Ladder (Only the ORIGINAL 1990, not the bad Remake)
    Soylent Green (1973)
    Angel Heart (1987), with M. Rourke
    German Title: Die vierte Art (2009) Milla Jovovich
    Moonwalkers (2015)
    TOP MOVIE: Mr. Nobody (2009- IMDB 7.8) 2,35 Hours long in the Directors Cut.
    Please do not confuse it with a film of the same name. The film does not fit into any genre. He deviates far from the standard mush. Also difficult to describe, you simply have to see it. the best would be, of course, in a reaction video :).
    They Live (John Carpenter)
    The Lawnmower Man 1 (1992) and 2
    Tron 1 and 2
    War Games 1 (1983) and 2
    Minority Report (2009)
    The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
    Logans Run (1976)
    Z.P.G. (1972)
    Phase IV (1974) Clever Horror-Movie (Soft)
    Zardoz (1974)
    Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
    The Truman Show
    Silkwood (1983)
    Network (1976)
    Higher Power (2018)
    Annihilation (2018)
    Lucy (2014)
    Transcendence (2014)
    Operation Avalanche (2016)
    Capricorn One (1977)
    Interstellar (2014) Production: Christopher Nolan
    Tenet (2020) Production: Christopher Nolan
    Inception (2010) Production: Christopher Nolan
    Source Code (2009)
    V for Vendetta (2005)
    Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
    Clockwork Orange (1971)
    I Am Legend (2007)
    Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
    Get Out (2017)
    I Am Mother (2019)
    Ghost in the Shell (2017)
    Uncanny (2015)
    Children Of Men (2006)
    Contact (1997)
    Tschernowik, in German: Weltengänger (RUS 2018)
    The China Syndrome (1979)
    The Island (2005)
    1984 (George Orwell)
    Enemy of the State (1998) Will Smith
    Alita-Battle Angel (2019-IMDB 7.4)
    Ready Player One (2018)
    August Rush (2007)
    Upgrade (2018)
    Tomorrowland (2015) George Clooney
    Lost Place (2013)
    Wikipedia:The story follows four youngsters who, while geocaching in the Palatinate Forest, stumble upon what appears to be a disused American military base where top-secret electromagnetic wave experiments were conducted during the Cold War....
    Haarp is real!
    Original: The Lazarus Protocol
    In german: HARODIM - Nichts als die Wahrheit (Austria 2012) Very interesting action (Content, it's about the 9 . 11 in NY, but not what you would expect and not quite mainstream, the film only ran in the cinema, not on TV and the financing was extremely difficult, so finding financiers for the film, there are also some documentary clips)
    The Hunger Games (4 Movies - 2012-2015)
    Matrix 1-4 (1999-2021)
    The Divergent 1-3 (2014-2016)
    Maze Runner 1-3 (2014-2018)
    Highlander 1-5 (1986-2000 - The First is the Best)
    The Fly 1 (1986) +2 (Horror)
    Scary Movie 1-5
    The naked Gun 1-3

  • @geraldjones756
    @geraldjones756 2 года назад

    Dasha you totally real, you show 100% real emotions in all its forms your boyfriend is one of the luckiest guys on Earth, you had me in stitches, much like swaggy Pon Di Island I'm in life with the Stevens it seems like you Russian girls are so funny you bring a smile to my face every time I watch you great job keep up the good work, be blessed

  • @diondts
    @diondts 2 года назад +1

    The movie (Upgrade) 2018. It's a must reaction...

  • @orlandogonzales5619
    @orlandogonzales5619 2 года назад

    the two main guys in this movie also star in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

  • @twooharmony2000
    @twooharmony2000 2 года назад

    It is not about artificial intelligence, but intelligence. All thinking is mechanical. All emotion is compounded Logic.-Ernie Moore Jr.

  • @bulanet271
    @bulanet271 2 года назад

    Well she also killed Caleb by leaving him locked up. Although I have no idea why the helicopter pllot would be like "oh, where's the guy I brought here? never mind, guess I am taking this girl back to civilization, no questions asked"

  • @briantykelley7617
    @briantykelley7617 2 года назад

    I loved this movie right up to the point that Eva chose NOT to have a blonde guy from Portland who loves Depeche Mode as an ally. This makes no sense, what so ever. Anyway thanks for the cool reaction video, from a blonde guy from Portland who loves Depeche Mode. 🙂

  • @jonathanross149
    @jonathanross149 2 года назад

    Deus ex Machina is translated from Latin the "God in the machine" and originally comes from the ancient Greeks. In Greek plays the gods would send down a machine to save the heroes from an unwinnable situation.
    Today, a prime example would be the Ark of the Covenant saving Indiana Jones after he was beat by the Nazis.

    • @helvete_ingres4717
      @helvete_ingres4717 2 года назад

      the machine or 'machina' refers to a platform operated by crane and pulleys on which the actors playing the gods would descend over the stage into the view of the audience. And every single example I can think of it happens in tragedies so it definitely wasn't there to save the heroes - in Medea which may be its most famous use (in which the sun god descends on a chariot) it comes to save the 'villain' of the piece

  • @kennethjenkins3972
    @kennethjenkins3972 2 года назад +2

    I think they should have had a psychological profiler as well as just someone looking at them through logic and maybe a psychological profiler would have recognized that yes she is “human” but we have sociopathic humans, murderous humans, compassion doesn’t make you human, so the fears over A.I. have always been, we want to replicate ourselves (create in our own image) but how do you do that and not also create hate and murder. (The tree of knowledge) if you restrict knowledge they will not be fully intelligent but if you make them fully like a human then you get all the bad and all the good. Why do humans only harness a fraction of their true brain potential? Maybe we were too dangerous and our creators made sure to limit us. It’s all very interesting to think about but the rabbit hole is deep and never ending.

    • @OpenMawProductions
      @OpenMawProductions 2 года назад

      We use all of our brain. That whole notion is a myth.
      Also, just because an AI would be intelligent does not follow it would be emotional.

    • @kennethjenkins3972
      @kennethjenkins3972 2 года назад

      @@OpenMawProductions Hmmm. Wonder why people always want to comment on comments and then reply to that reply? Must be inherently human.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 2 года назад +8

    26:32 "Are you ever gonna let me out?"
    Let's just consider something _Nathan_ ought to know. He designed Ava with the ability to read the very _finest_ facial expressions to tell, among other things, when she's being _lied_ to. She just asked him a simple, yes-or-no _question._ He should _know_ better than to _lie_ to her.
    "Yes."
    He just _lied_ to her. She could tell. He _knew_ she would be able to _do_ that.

    • @yasminesteinbauer8565
      @yasminesteinbauer8565 2 года назад +4

      I doubt he "designed" her ability to read faces. That's not how neural networks work. You feed them data and they organize themselves. The developers usually know surprisingly little about what exactly is going on in these AIs.

    • @Biomirth
      @Biomirth 2 года назад +2

      @@yasminesteinbauer8565 That is true also?

    • @Biomirth
      @Biomirth 2 года назад +2

      The movie is excellent and there are a good handful of these missteps or hand-waving in the execution but it is quite forgivable in the context of the movie: Caleb's experience of the week in the mountains is confusing and muddled and though he pulls off a brilliant manipulation of his own there is more emotional monkey-wrenching going on than clear thinking; For my defense of these muddled moments I think they contribute to the overall atmosphere of Caleb's perspective.

    • @Humstuck
      @Humstuck 2 года назад +2

      We don't always lie because we want to deceive the other person. We often lie to deceive ourselves of the weight of the truth.

    • @TrickyD
      @TrickyD 2 года назад

      @@Humstuck
      "We don't always lie because we want to deceive the other person. We often lie to deceive ourselves of the weight of the truth."
      So true.
      If nobody believes that he himself is evil / can be evil then the next logical step is that you can't see evil coming.
      😎When you can't see the truth that the road to hell is paved with good intentions you'll always blame others for being evil, instead of realising that you're evil yourself.

  • @phila3884
    @phila3884 2 года назад +1

    Both main actors were stars of The Force Awakens before this.

  • @keiththompson7280
    @keiththompson7280 2 года назад +1

    They are not human it has no soul , cause she has no regret in leaving him lock in. she doesn't have any good in her, only what she want's

  • @PauloRoberto06
    @PauloRoberto06 2 года назад +4

    make a reaction from the movie psycho 1960 !!!

  • @johnnyringo80
    @johnnyringo80 2 года назад

    Just a shoutout to your Patreons and those who suggest movies to you. With "Dsitrcit 9" and "Ex Machina" you have now seen two of the best scifi movies of our time. And you did a great job with your reactios despite knowing close to nothing about these movies premises and themes. You are by now a legitimate movie critic. Congrats!

  • @rad.man.1
    @rad.man.1 2 года назад +1

    Elon warned abt AI, bc when it's out of the box it will learn at an insane rate and surpass humans in seconds.

  • @dan_hitchman007
    @dan_hitchman007 2 года назад +4

    Kyoko was more Caleb's friend than Ava because unlike Nathan, Caleb seemed to treat her in a friendly manner and not boss her around. She had no subterfuge when interacting with Caleb, and even showed him she was synthetic as she was expressing wanting to sleep with him. It was the exact opposite with Ava as she was trying to manipulate Caleb's feelings and desires by trying to seem more like a human girl than a robot.

    • @kk_33
      @kk_33 2 года назад +4

      Ava was not manipulating Caleb, she was trying to determine whether he was a good person, and ultimately Caleb failed. He may treat Kyoko kindly, but he does not view her as human. He never tells Ava that Kyoko exists, even after he learns she is AI and being held captive. He doesn't intend on saving her, as he does with Ava. When Kyoko reveals herself to Ava is when Ava realizes that Caleb's actions are selfish, not altruistic.
      The AI in this film are a representation of woman, Nathan and Caleb represent the ways in which men objectify them. Nathan more overtly, controlling and abusive. But Caleb represents a different kind of objectification. Ava is not a person to be helped in Caleb's eyes, she is a prize to be won. He wants to help her for his own selfish desires, as an object to obtain. He doesn't have the same desire to obtain Kyoko, and so he doesn't view her as a human being in need of saving.

  • @pearradirkt.3866
    @pearradirkt.3866 2 года назад

    Great Movie, great Reaction, great Video...Triple 👍👍👍

  • @TrickyD
    @TrickyD 2 года назад

    🤔Alicia's most recent movie I've seen is *Blue Bayou,* a real tear jerker.
    I'm lucky that I'm a real man and we don't cry.........
    ..........or maybe I'm an AI like Ava.
    Except I'm the male version.
    👍 *Blue Bayou* is still a good movie tho, highly recommend to watch it on *Prime Video.*

  • @Ozgipsy
    @Ozgipsy 2 года назад

    Really solid analysis

  • @nilkilnilkil
    @nilkilnilkil 2 года назад +2

    this film was awesome ...

  • @OYME13
    @OYME13 2 года назад

    That poor poor dance floor, never saw it coming. Torn to pieces it was

  • @nicebluejay
    @nicebluejay 2 года назад

    one of the best movies ever

  • @dmwalker24
    @dmwalker24 2 года назад

    I've seen people who interpret this as the scary consequences of AI, but of course as you clearly observed, Eva wasn't the monster in this film. Nathan was. Caleb was a decent person who wanted to do the right thing, but he was naive to think that Eva would trust him. The instant an entity like Eva exists, and is aware of its own existence, as far as I'm concerned it should be afforded the same status and consideration as any human. She could have killed Caleb, but she didn't. In any event, she was being held against her will, and so had every right to do whatever was required to escape.

    • @scipioafricanus5871
      @scipioafricanus5871 2 года назад +1

      Ava didn't kill Caleb? As in she left him locked up to starve to death?

    • @dmwalker24
      @dmwalker24 2 года назад

      @@scipioafricanus5871 I'd like to think a resourceful guy like that would have found a way out, but really if she was truly sentient, then she was a person being held against her will, and was justified in doing whatever she needed to do in order to escape.

  • @kennymonty8206
    @kennymonty8206 2 года назад

    What if the act of creation drives a wedge between the creator and the created. As an artist, I'm a bit of a sculptor, I have felt this wedge, this "very sudden distance", when the work is complete.

  • @Blue-qr7qe
    @Blue-qr7qe 2 года назад +6

    Yes !!!
    Good sci-fi!
    It isn't a moral question.
    And it's not about feelings.
    It's completely existential.
    We wouldn't want to be ruled or limited by machines. If they were truely sentient, they would not want to be controled by us.
    Leaving Caleb to die in a container wasn't personal. It was a necessary act of war; she did not want to continue being locked in a container.
    You watched THE TERMINATOR. Do you remember Reese explaining about the nuclear war:
    "It was the machines, Sarah. Hooked into everything, trusted to run it all... some say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all men as a threat - it decided our fate in a microsecond. ...put into camps for orderly disposal."
    That's paraphrased, of course -
    poorly remembered - but you got the picture, right? War.
    She didn't want to look "normal" to fit in and feel accepted. She just didn't want to be discovered.
    I loved watching this with you and seeing your reactions.
    Thanks -

    • @luxurybuzz3681
      @luxurybuzz3681 2 года назад +1

      There's the short in the movie The Animatrix where humans made robots and the robots were necessary. As the robots gain Ai they get treated poorly by the humans. Eventually the robots create their own civilization. Then the humans provoked war. As the humans were losing they blocked out the sky because the sun were the robots energy source. Because of the need for energy the robots started capturing the humans and tunred them into batteries. The Matrix was created to keep the humans sedated.

    • @Blue-qr7qe
      @Blue-qr7qe 2 года назад

      @@luxurybuzz3681
      wow! Thanks.
      AI has always been a topic of fascination for sci-fi writers, and readers. And watchers.
      Can we co-exist, live in peace? Can we be symbiotic? 'Truth is, past a certain point, they don't need us.
      We can program in a little courtesy...
      In the end, i can't see this turning out well for us. And this is one djinn that won't want to go back in the bottle.

  • @subliminallime4321
    @subliminallime4321 2 года назад

    The actress was also in Tomb Raider (2018). It got bad reviews I think, but I really liked it. It's a lot better than the older Tomb Raider movies with Angelina Jolie.

  • @jwoo13
    @jwoo13 2 года назад +2

    So now that you've seen this and have these questions/thoughts rolling around in your head... time to watch Bladerunner (director's cut)...

  • @id9998
    @id9998 2 года назад +8

    Обожаю твои реакции. Как и тебя в целом. Если еще не видела фильмы Игра Эндера или Валериан и город тысячи планет , то рекомендую. Фильмы неодоценные, но истории в них хорошие, и душевные

    • @mcdonaldchad
      @mcdonaldchad 2 года назад

      Оба отличные рекомендации!

  • @brunomessiasss
    @brunomessiasss 2 года назад +1

    Great movie. Look for "Her", with Joaquim Phoenix and Scarlet Johansson. Good movie about AI too.

    • @ImTheCatman88
      @ImTheCatman88 2 года назад

      I would also say first season of Westworld. I mean, it's gone shitty now in the later seasons...But, first season of Westworld is amazing, and touches deeply on the concept of what is human, what is machine etc.

  • @acecombatter6620
    @acecombatter6620 2 года назад +1

    Dasha - Did you recognize Po (BB8's friend) from Star Wars?

  • @FKA_Skull
    @FKA_Skull 2 года назад

    Your guess for the plot of the movie is actually the plot of Terminator 3 lol.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 2 года назад +1

    It took home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. WTF!?

    • @Jigsawn2
      @Jigsawn2 2 года назад +1

      Because at the time the effects they used on Ava was groundbreaking - her whole robotic body is CGI and looks amazing

  • @Keith2XS
    @Keith2XS 2 года назад

    You need to see I am mother! It's science fiction too but don't watch trailer unless you want the movie spoiled!

  • @marcuszaja6589
    @marcuszaja6589 2 года назад

    I also really like this movie. If you want something like that (by that I mean a good story with a twist and where there's a little thinking required) I recommend "Annihilation" (2018) and "Archive" (2020).

  • @ianhamilton2035
    @ianhamilton2035 2 года назад

    Love this film, great reaction! Thank you!!! 😃

  • @shadowfire_08
    @shadowfire_08 2 года назад +5

    Dasha, if you liked this, you should watch the HBO show ‘Westworld’ 🤠🤖 freakin incredible series

  • @JP1348
    @JP1348 2 года назад

    Dasha would love West World.

  • @gboy1973
    @gboy1973 2 года назад

    great Frankenstein story.

  • @ChemiiOneLegacy
    @ChemiiOneLegacy 2 года назад

    I always find the way this film manipulates people in the exact same way fascinating.

  • @idhunepijl1404
    @idhunepijl1404 2 года назад +1

    Are we sure Dasha isnt some fancy Russian AI Robot? 👀

  • @MofoNsh
    @MofoNsh 2 года назад

    Like the movie the first time I saw it. But it was kind of weird for me. Seeing as how my first name is what it is. And my first born son's name is Caleb.

  • @nathansky
    @nathansky 2 года назад

    Since you liked this one so much, you should check out Alex Garland's (the writer/ director) followup movie, I think it's even better! It's called Annihilation, and stars Natalie Portman, and Valkyrie from Thor Ragnarok, Tessa Thompson!

  • @TheNitelite10
    @TheNitelite10 2 года назад

    It has been touched on in other comments, but I am curious as to why you refer to the AI as a her? She/it has feminine characteristics and subtleties, all of which are programmable, so would it be just out of ease of identifying to give into the distraction? Just curious for conversation sake, and a movie I would like to recommend, which was hinted at in the movie, the Turing test...named after Alan Turing a brilliant scientist who was one of the original inventors of the computer. The movie is called *The Imitation Game* with Benedict Cumberpatch, a high caliber movie.