Caleb: Some people believe language exists from birth. And what is learned is the ability to attach words and structure to the latent ability.
Ex Machina (2015)
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Directed by: Alex Garland
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Sonoya Mizuno
Factual error: When Caleb is entering the estate in the helicopter, the pilot mentions they had been flying over the estate for the past two hours, indicating that it was two hours to Nathan's house plus any time elapsed after that conversation. Calculate another two hours minimum back to the airport. The Eurocopter EC 130 pictured in the film has a maximum range of about four hours max. The helicopter quite possibly could've crashed before reaching the airport to refuel. (00:02:01)
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Suggested correction: They refuelled, it just wasn't shown.
Trivia: Adjusted for inflation, Ex Machina was at the time the lowest-budgeted winner of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in history. In 2019, its came comes to around $16 million, with the closest equivalent being the $41 million of Cocoon (1985). Since this was made, Godzilla Minus One (2023) won the Visual Effects Oscar and had a budget in the $10-15 million range.
Question: SPOILER If, by the end of the movie, the facility was reprogrammed to have all doors unlocked on a power failure - and there was a sudden power failure when Domhnall inserted the card into the computer terminal... Why did he remain locked within? Shouldn't he be set free by the programming change he freed Ava with?
Chosen answer: He inserted his own card in Nathans computer. Also, there was no mention of a power failure, only a red glow. This would be a different event than he's programmed the system for.
Answer: The "Red glow" was the emergency lights that had come on every other time the power went out. And the final power outage was orchestrated by previous arrangement by the robot and Caleb.