Thought provoking and intelligent.

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2019)

The ethical questions this movie is posing is what I consider to be the main draw. It is visually stunning, from the scenery, to the architecture, then finally the execution of Ava the A.I. The picture is purposely slow and feeds you bite size chunks of moral conundrums to ponder. At times it felt a bit like a school debate over gender and equality, but then by having any sort of opinion about these issues one would have to accept that Ava is, "alive". The only reason it gets a 7 is I felt that the producers should have done better with the whole premise of the oppressed genius who discovers A.I and decides to only create female slaves with it to cater to his sexual whims. It is a little basic... The obvious conclusion is that we as the viewer are expected to decide if any pity we feel for this poor little girl would be stronger than our ability to reason and realize that she is just a smart phone... Isn't she???