Have you ever watched a film and then begged others around you to watch it just because you couldn’t wait to talk about it?
That’s exactly how I felt about Ex Machina, the 2014 sci-fi psychological thriller, directed by Alex Garland. A wealth of ideas bloomed in this movie, and I found myself thinking about its implications for quite some time.
Quite fortuitously I came across a podcast called Two Philosophers Drink Beer & Discuss Film. The hosts, Dr. Gregory Jackson and Dr. Daniel Murphy, do an amazing job employing philosophical ideas to dissect themes in movies. I invited them to be on Good Is In The Details to lend their expertise for an episode on Ex Machina. We went over notions of beauty, consciousness, and the ethical questions relating to AI. For anyone who enjoys philosophy and film this’ll be a treat. I also highly recommend this for anyone teaching philosophy. This episode highlights how working out the ideas of a film can bring greater understanding of key philosophical theories.
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