The Role Of Transcendence In The Film Ex Machina '

One of the most important existentialist to ever live was a woman named Simone De Beauvoir. Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher whose work was based around the ideas of immanence, transcendence and otherness. Immanence is when one shows signs of who they could be. Transcendence is your ability to shape yourself into want you want to be. Otherness is when someone is treated poorly because they are different. These ideas are displayed throughout the movie, "Ex Machina" on numerous occasions. The film begins with Caleb Smith, young programmer, who is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment of a lifetime, a week-long retreat to the estate of Nathan Bateman, the CEO of a software company named Blue Book. Once Caleb arrives
it is brought to his attention that his “prize” is to be the human component of Nathan’s Turing Test of a “living artificial intelligence” named Ava. Over the course of the film, Caleb develops sympathy for Ava, seeing her as a damsel in distress, while she views Caleb as a means of escape. Overall, the film Ex Machina is about an artificial intelligence's struggle to be accepted and find true happiness