Ex Machina (2015)

From NetFlix:

After winning a chance to spend a week at his boss’s Alaskan compound, tech whiz Caleb Smith finds he’s been selected to help evaluate a sentient humanoid dubbed Ava — whose feminine wiles prove more formidable than expected.

Probably I should have guessed the surprise ending of this film. Hopefully the story will also fool you. And what a well-written, intelligent script! Science fiction stories such as this one are not only entertaining, but also thought-provoking. Do you have a soul?

Not a single of the well-chosen actors was familiar to me. Besides being American born, the actors were born in Ireland, Guatemala, Sweden, and Japan to mention a few. At first the character Nathan seems a bit rough, but his character fits, as do all the others.

Be aware that there is non-prurient female nakedness.

This film presents slow, calm, quiet, unspectacular science fiction at its best. If that appeals, then DO NOT MISS!

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