Consciousness is everywhere

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2015)

This is one of those special, revelatory movies that plants a seed in you head that blooms for days after you leave the theater. It artfully plays with the notion of consciousness and 'being'. We are, as Issac's character states, 'just another link in the evolving continuum of life'. If you look at AI as a logical and inevitable step in the evolution of consciousness on Earth, then we are merely caretakers, waiting for it's arrival. What does that make it's obsessive, brilliant, flawed creator, played deftly by Issacs? That's the seed and question that was planted in me by Ex Machina.
Did you notice the patch of white hair in the center of Nathan's head? It seems to me that is the white chakra of an enlightened being. One who voluntarily sacrifices himself to bring about the next phase in our evolution.
Go ahead an marinate on that for a minute.