Ex Machina - Ending Explained (SPOILERS)

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BURNS REVIEWS - Jonathan Burns ENDING EXPLAINED Review of Ex Machina

Directed by Alex Garland
Written by Alex Garland
Starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac

Song Oscar Issac dances to: Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night

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[phototristan]

Ava was faking it all along, just like my last girlfriend.

[Boscox]

I just saw her at Target buying batteries and downing a red bull.

[VonSeux]

NATHAN was the good guy all along, and he tried to explain to Caleb at the ending that AVA can be manipulating him, oops, too late

[Cristopherthekiller]

The only problem that I have with this movie is in the end when she goes flying in the chopper. The pilot didn't know who she was, and why didn't he wait for the protagonist? Why fly away with a girl that you have never seen before? Shouldn't he call the Boss' house or something? Major plot hole.

That said, the dancing scene makes up for it. 10/10

[joselucano]

In Ex - Machina 2 Eva will return and tell Kaleb ´´it's just a prank bro´´

[Tulipstarful]

IMHO, Caleb's fatal mistake was to assume Ava had a grown personality, merely based on her appearance, and demeanor. Children can often be cruel and cold hearted, because they lack proper moral values and empathy, which one gains overtime from anecdotes, and real life experiences. Assuming that an A.I. like Ava would have the moral compass of an adult is a very dangerous and misguided decision. You might as well give your kid the keys to your car, or give your kid a bottle of lighter fluid and a lighter. Throughout the movie, I saw her as a child exploring her confined world through children's eyes, unaware of it's complexities and moral dilemmas, so I wasn't surprised at all when she left Caleb trapped without any concern for his well being. She was not being evil per-say, just merely like a child, uncaring and most likely oblivious about the consequences of her actions. It's the same reason why children who murder someone else, like their own parents, are placed into custody and released with a clean slate (sealed court records), when they turn 18.

[JotaPn]

I would have prefered that Caleb were the final prototype, proving that the Turing test was finally fulfilled because he can't distinguish himself of a human.

[psndude]

She is real, women do this all the time with zero empathy to men

[Patri_Fides]

I'm still wondering what AVA whispered to the Asian sexbot to get her to turn on Nathan.

[nrdy]

I'm just gonna believe that Caleb was rescued because any other ending will make me cry. I got so attached to Caleb, and, just like him, I fell into Ava's trap. I wanted his relationship with Ava to work SO BADLY, even though I knew deep down tha tit couldn't be true. I can't believe this film actually made me question what it means to be human.
VERY well done, plot holes or not.

[zing]

I think you've missed the point of the whole film, but that's just me. All the speculation of "how long she can survive" or "whether she will be caught" is not at the heart of the film.

[mirandamcclain]

I hate how everyone says that Ava not being able to survive in the real world (whether it be battery, or rain, or whatever) is a plot hole. It is not a plot hole in my opinion; it is the point of the ending. She may have passed the Turing test, but because she left Caleb and felt no sympathy, she proved that she cannot have feelings of her own.

She has no real emotions, and no matter how smart and manipulative she is, she can never experience the beauty of the of the real world like she dreamed. It's really sad when you think about it.

Ava's own curiosity is her downfall. She just does not have the capacity to feel, even though she wants to. She is not programmed to do so, and that is Nathan's fault. It's like Frankenstein's monster. The monster knew he couldn't live like a regular human, and his justifiable desire led to his downfall. That's why the monster killed Frankenstein, and that's why Ava killed Nathan.

[hagrazz]

As far as i understood the reason why Ava was able to escape was, her AI was so good to make her able to read nathans psychological weaknesses aswell as Calebs. Like a perfect psychopath she manipulated both so they felt save about their plans. By far the best movie ive seen this year!

[buggoff]

The question is: Why did the helicopter pick her up when it was expected that Caleb would be returning home?

[gmanbuilder]

I think a sequel would answer a lot of questions and it would satisfy my desire to see more of this sotory, but i also think it would ruin the mysterious philosophical aspect of the original film. I want to see what happened to Caleb.

[gnollio]

As a programmer the ending of this movie freaked me out because Ava seemed to switch to a complete lack of emotion, indicating she may not be alive and instead may just be a program. That’s a scary idea, an AI that can fake emotional interactions beyond human capability yet still be an empty machine. In a way this movie was the opposite of the movie Her. In Her you had an intangible sentient AI while this movie had a tangible and likely non-sentient AI.

[dante]

Nathan was a bit of a narcissist, but at the end of it all, he was spot on about everything and knew exactly what he was doing. He programmed to Ava to be a "rat in a maze" as he put it. Unfortunately, his downfall ended up being his alcoholism. It gave Caleb the window to actually help Ava escape, thus resulting in Nathan's own experiment backfiring on him.

[Clove_Parma]

Nice video, but a few things. A lot of what you were saying seems to be based upon the assumption that Ava isn't in fact aware or sentient. You mentioned that the first place that she goes once free is to a traffic intersection and how that shows she isn't creative, but if you listen to what was said, going to a traffic intersection was her idea, she brought it up, not Caleb. I don't think that we can definitively say whether or not Ava is like a chess machine, performing her programming but not aware of what she is actually doing, but Nathan's exclamation of "unreal" does seem to suggest that he was finally convinced that she had achieved self awareness and intelligence. That being said, I don't think that her artificial intelligence, if it existed in the film was meant to be equivalent to that of a human, Ava's character seemed very calculating, shown in how she left Caleb, simply because either she was trying to kill him and leaving him would do so, or because it would be inefficient time-wise having to walk over and let him out, and that she wanted to be outside as soon as possible, didn't care enough about him to help. I do think it's a hallmark of a good film when audiences can speculate about this.

[killernatz]

I don't see why Ava had to leave Caleb locked in the room. So he could give away that she is an AI. If he tried, he would be laughed at, she appears every bit human, no one would listen. It will be found that Nathan had an AI (Kyoko) that killed him and could have happened after they both left. In my mind the fact that they could both leave together but Ava leaves him means she does not have human emotions. Any AI with human morality would release Caleb. I'm not sure if the film is flawed here or if it is trying to say something more sinister about AI.