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Ex Machina (2014)

Film
DirectorAlex Garland
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Figures

Characters
  • The character of Kyoko
Form & technique
  • The film's electronic score and ambient sound design
Tropes
  • Ava's consciousness and escape
  • The glass-walled architecture and surveillance system
  • The core triangular relationship: Nathan-Caleb-Ava → The Oedipal Complex
  • Ava's character arc and final actions
  • Nathan's isolated, high-tech compound
  • The creator-creation relationship between Nathan and Ava
  • Ava's performance of femininity and use of skin → The Postfeminist Sensibility
  • The final alliance between Ava and Kyoko → Queer Kinship

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