Bodies electric: Ex Machina twists the history of sexy robots
Before the premiere screening of Ex Machina at South by Southwest this weekend, senior programmer Jarod Neece told the audience at the Paramount Theatre in no uncertain terms, “this is one of the best films we’ve ever shown.” And indeed, Ex Machina is excellent — gorgeously shot and designed, brain-crampingly complex in its line of questioning and gracefully efficient in its storytelling. But when you throw hyperbole like that at a film festival and you’re bound to invite contrarians. And as soon as the credits rolled on Ex Machina, I predicted two things in its near future: near-unanimous critical praise, and a lot of hot debate about its woman problem.
Caution: some spoilers ahead.
Admittedly, in those first few hours of digesting…
Source:: The Verge
