{"id":6721,"date":"2015-07-27T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:47:02","slug":"ex-machina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/ex-machina\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Machina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You&#8217;re wrong&#8230; Nathan&#8230; He isn&#8217;t your friend. You shouldn&#8217;t trust him. You shouldn&#8217;t trust anything he says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ex Machina<\/strong>, released in 2015<\/p>\n<p>Caleb wins a contest and gets to spend a week with his boss. He&#8217;s flown by helicopter to a remote location. His boss Nathan offers him an opportunity, if he agrees to sign a not-so-standard non-disclosure agreement &#8212; to conduct a Turing test on an android. To decide if the android Ava has artificial intelligence. Caleb is very excited to meet Ava but he&#8217;s also a bit suspicious about his mysterious host.<\/p>\n<p>This is a slow moving but fascinating science fiction movie. It has a similar tone to <strong>Her<\/strong>. It should be a blockbuster, but it doesn&#8217;t have good guys and bad guys shooting at each other so it probably isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Alicia Vikander is astonishing as Ava.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac. Directed by Alex Garland (writer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/never-let-me-go\/\"><strong>Never Let Me Go<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You&#8217;re wrong&#8230; Nathan&#8230; He isn&#8217;t your friend. You shouldn&#8217;t trust him. You shouldn&#8217;t trust anything he says.&#8221; Ex Machina, released in 2015 Caleb wins a contest and gets to spend a week with his boss. He&#8217;s flown by helicopter to a remote location. His boss Nathan offers him an opportunity, if he agrees to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9393,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions\/9393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}