Ex Machina Film Analysis

In the film Ex Machina, Caleb, a programer at a gigantic internet company, is in charge of testing the latest robot, Ava, for artificial intelligence. What he realizes that Ava has been manipulating his emotions and using him to escape the room that she has called home her entire existence. She merely treats Caleb this way to prove to her creator, Nathaniel, that she does, in fact, have artificial intelligence. Ex Machina is being evaluated on whether or not it is an enjoyable film that belongs to the dystopian subcategory of the science fiction genre. In order for a dystopian science fiction film to be considered enjoyable it has to: take place in the future, display the old world and the dated technology alongside the new, the government has to crash or fail and some kind of other system will take over, fights to try and take back what was rightfully theirs, and as an added bonus, it will take place on a different planet. Ex Machina is an exceptional movie that fulfills all of the rightful criteria that makes it a dystopian science fiction film.
There are some dystopian science fiction films like Star Wars, that do take place in another galaxy far far away, but Ex Machina does not clearly show if it in the Milky War or not. There is a distinct possibility that the film is set on a planet other than Earth, but since the audience only sees the trees on the way to Nathaniel’s house, there is no way to have an exact conclusion with the evidence provided. The film does not show the characters using any version of an oxygen mask when outdoors, so it is possible that one may come to the conclusion that the film is set on Earth. The planetary location of the film does not play a significant role in the overall review of the film because the quality of the film is good with or without meeting this