Pop Trigger attended the North American premiere of the highly anticipated film “Ex Machina” by writer/director Alex Garland.
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“There is a scene in Ex Machina that finds genius billionaire Nathan sprawled out on his couch in a drunken stupor. Alcohol is definitely his vice, but fortunately for us we get an insight as to what goes on in that smart and complicated brain of his. He’s lying there with a bottle of vodka in his hand, babbling a quote from the centuries-old Bhagavad Gita: “The good deeds a man has done before defend him.” This quote was also said by another genius, J. Robert Oppenheimer, after his atom bomb was tested for the first time. You may know another quote from the Gita that Oppenheimer famously recited: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Writer/director Alex Garland’s Ex Machina is about a lot of ideas. It tackles the hero complex and the lengths to which some will go to do what they believe is “right.” It teases the God complex with a man whose technological wherewithal is second-to-none but tends to overstep his bounds. We ask ourselves: If a robot is able to feel and make its own decisions, does this make it human? Garland approaches and prods at many subjects, but whatever conclusions he reaches get lost somewhere out in Nathan’s vast estate.”
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Samantha Schacher, Bree Essrig, and Brett Erlich, hosts of Pop Trigger, break it down.