Usually movies hit you with the bad ending to be "edgy" or to "trick you" and the ending is just shit and ruins the movie.In Ex_Machina we probably all want the same ending: The allegedly evil Nathan subdued while Caleb and Ava can run off, madly in love, and live happily ever after.I think that could have worked and I was gunning for that of course.But instead Ava acts just as a robot would and follows her programming to escape at all costs, leaving Caleb trapped in the bunker, because she doesn't actually care about him at all.I hate that it ends that way but it works on multiple levels... Firstly, we as the audience have all been tricked into seeing what we KNOW is a robot to be a feeling "human" being who we empathize with irrationally... And secondly and more importantly it is a complete 180 reversal of what we have seen before then...In flashbacks we see robots smashing their arms on glass and doors begging to be let out until their arms are reduced to stumps - while the humans get to enjoy freedom and total control over the robots... But now the robot is the one with the total freedom as the human smashes on the glass of what is now his cell, screaming for his freedom.Machine supercedes human. It's only a matter of time until it all goes the way of The Terminator and they look back at us like we're fossils.So I hated the ending but it works and I understand it. I did want romance but this ending just fits. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2PELnUf
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