A young coder at the world's largest
internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private retreat
belonging to the reclusive CEO of the company. One arrival he learns that he
must participate in a bizarre experiment which involves interacting with the
world's first true artificial intelligence, which comes in the form of a
beautiful female robot.
January 21, 2015
Alex Garland
What makes it postmodern:
Artificial Intelligence – very postmodern
idea, of robots or technologically advanced machines that can ‘take over’.
Location – shot all in one location only
using 3 characters. Film focuses on character development and tricking the
audience so they are as confused as the characters and the only thing that
knows everything in the film is Eva, yet she is an AI.
Intertextuality – references many other
sci-fi/AI films and ideas.
Good vs evil – tries to break this down by
confusing people with who is good and who is evil, tries to make man the enemy
and machine the good one. Challenges binary opposites of life and what it means
to be human (eg the testing like the Turing test).
Futuristic – it is not set in the future, but
the location props and AI suggest advancements that are incomprehensible for
humans and imply a futuristic for-knowledge.
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