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movie review - Ex Machina

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a story of a robotics specialist who's sent to the remote residence where his genius/billionaire boss is holed up working on who knows what. Our hero arrives to discover that the boss is cooking up female playthings and is steadily turning into a three-alarm asshole in the progress. The story avoids some obvious choices and lands on a fairly good course that raises a bunch of questions. Needless to say our hero wouldn't be much of a hero if he didn't feel compelled to do something, but it's not entirely clear where his intentions lie and it becomes obvious to the latest female plaything that he might not be enough. By the time she is making her bid for freedom it's something of a welcome respite from a story that slips into overthinking things a bit.

Recommended. For Sci-Fi fans.