A love letter to Ava (from the director)

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2016)

Ava is the real hero in this movie. At the end, when she put the skin on her metal body, she did it meticulously and with love. After she finished, she admired herself in the mirror, then chose her hair and a beautiful dress. It's a moment of triumph. Her creator may have given her the intelligence, emotions and made her a sentient being. But only she, at the end of the movie, gave herself the dignity, freedom and independence to match. This is a true birth date.
She then stepped outside under the sun and disappeared into the world, leaving behind two creators trapped and dead in a tomb like birth place. "One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa."
The ending reminds me of the song Avalanche by Leonard Cohen.
"When I am on a pedestal, you did not raise me there. Your laws do not compel me to kneel grotesque and bare. I myself am the pedestal for this ugly hump at which you stare."
"The crumbs of love that you offer me, they are the crumbs I have left behind. Your pain is no credential here. It's just the shadow, shadow of my wound."
"It is your turn, beloved. It is your flesh that I wear. This is your world. It is your flesh that I wear."