Ex michina was director and written by Alex Garland and produced by Andrew

Macdonald and Allon Reich, the film was realised on the 21 st of January 2015 with
a small budget of just $15 million. The main three characters for the film were
Alicia Vikander as Ava, Domhnall Gleeson as Caleb Smith, Oscar Isaac as Nathan
Bateman although they arent list stars and actors they are still well known:
Domhnall Gleeson acting had earned himself a Tony Award nomination.
The film follows a programmer Caleb Smith who wins a one-week visit to the
home of Nathan Bateman, the CEO of software company Blue Book. The only
other person there is Nathan's servant Kyoko, who (Nathan says) does not speak
English. Nathan has built a humanoid robot named Ava with artificial intelligence.
Ava has already passed a simple Turing test; Nathan wants Caleb to judge
whether Ava is genuinely capable of thought and consciousness, and whether he
can relate to Ava despite knowing she is artificial. During their talks, Caleb grows
close to her, and she expresses a romantic interest in him and a desire to
experience the world outside. She can trigger power outages that temporarily
shut down the surveillance system which Nathan uses to monitor their
interactions, allowing them to speak privately. The power outages also trigger
the building's security system, locking all the doors. During one outage, Ava tells
Caleb that Nathan is a liar who cannot be trusted.
Caleb grows uncomfortable with Nathan's narcissism, excessive drinking, and
crude behaviour towards Kyoko and Ava. He learns that Nathan intends to
upgrade Ava, "killing" her current personality in the process. Caleb encourages
Nathan to drink until he passes out, then steals his security card to access his
room and computer. After he alters some of Nathan's code, he discovers footage
of Nathan interacting with previous android models in disturbing ways, and
learns that Kyoko is also an android. Back in his room, Caleb cuts his arm open to
examine his flesh. At their next meeting, Ava cuts the power. Caleb explains what
Nathan is going to do and Ava begs him to help her. They form a plan: Caleb will
get Nathan drunk again and reprogram the security system to open the doors in
a power failure instead of locking them. When Ava cuts the power, she and Caleb
will leave together.
Nathan reveals to Caleb that he has been observing Caleb and Ava's secret
conversations with a battery-powered camera. He says Ava has only pretended
to like Caleb so he would help her escape; this, he says, was the real test all
along, and by manipulating Caleb so successfully, Ava has demonstrated true
intelligence. Ava cuts the power. Caleb reveals that he knew Nathan was
watching them, and modified the security system when Nathan was passed out
the previous day. After seeing Ava leave her confinement, Nathan knocks Caleb
unconscious and rushes to stop her. With help from Kyoko, Ava kills Nathan, but
in the process Nathan destroys Kyoko and damages Ava. Ava repairs herself with
parts from earlier androids, using their artificial skin to take on the full
appearance of a human woman. She leaves Caleb trapped inside the facility,
ignoring his screams, and escapes to the outside world in the helicopter meant
to take Caleb home.
ex machina is a brilliant sci-fi film which askes difficult questions about the
relationship between human and robot. It questions your morals and your heart.
Yet the film doesnt have a definite ending so we never quite know what is going

to happen to Caleb or how Ava will cope in the true world, for some people this is
the best ending as it allows them to create their own ideas about what happens
after the film ends and leaves a question in their heads. However, for other
people like me the film leaves you frustrated as it offers no closure to the film,
leaving you disappointed.