Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

Film Glance Forum

  1. Home
  2. The Cinema
  3. Caleb is a robot

Caleb is a robot

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Cinema
13 Posts 1 Posters 0 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • F Offline
    F Offline
    fgadmin
    wrote last edited by
    #1

    Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Ex Machina


    andrewsleugh — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 03:28 AM)

    I thought this was obvious but after searching around, not many people came to the conclusion after Caleb cut himself and drew blood. However, all you need to do is think about when Ava asked him his first memory. He starts on a memory of kindergarten, she says he's lying. He hesitantly tells of his true first memory, just a color and a sound. The color blue. The sound must have been a bell, then. The company is Blue Bell. Think about what would most likely happen when you turn on one of their screens. Computers give a color and a jingle. Blue Bell's would be blue with a bell.

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • F Offline
      F Offline
      fgadmin
      wrote last edited by
      #2

      e216 — 9 years ago(October 02, 2016 09:42 PM)

      I liked the fact that they didn't go for the twist because I'm sure many people were expecting it. And hey, we may still have been right but unless there's a sequel, we'll never know.

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • F Offline
        F Offline
        fgadmin
        wrote last edited by
        #3

        justin40580 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 09:41 AM)

        Ok so what about his parents and the car accident?

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • F Offline
          F Offline
          fgadmin
          wrote last edited by
          #4

          KingCobra686 — 9 years ago(November 25, 2016 08:50 PM)

          And also the start of the movie where he is sitting in the office.

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • F Offline
            F Offline
            fgadmin
            wrote last edited by
            #5

            terp_fan99 — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 11:45 AM)

            Nice theory, but I'm pretty sure the company was actually called Blue BOOK, not Blue Bell.

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • F Offline
              F Offline
              fgadmin
              wrote last edited by
              #6

              jerryst420 — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 07:12 PM)

              The fact that the helicopter comes back at the end proves that Caleb isn't a robot. Why would Nathan be setting Caleb free if he was just another one of his creations?

              1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • F Offline
                F Offline
                fgadmin
                wrote last edited by
                #7

                spookyrat1 — 9 years ago(November 22, 2016 04:03 AM)

                They didn't do a Bladerunner. Caleb has his own doubts, because of his past and suspicions about Nathan's abilities to manipulate, but we see that he is clearly no robot.

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • F Offline
                  F Offline
                  fgadmin
                  wrote last edited by
                  #8

                  DannyJude — 9 years ago(November 26, 2016 09:46 AM)

                  Caleb a robot??? But he showed extreme emotion and desperation
                  after being locked in. He would've had to have been EXTREMELY advanced for a robot to display such emotion. And if he was THAT advanced, he would've been able to outsmart Ava.

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • F Offline
                    F Offline
                    fgadmin
                    wrote last edited by
                    #9

                    veil182 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 07:14 AM)

                    It wouldn't be about outsmarting Ava: think about creating an AI that is so indistinguishable from humanity, that it can be emotionally manipulated by another AI? Wether that makes it the "lesser" or "greater" AI is up for debate, but to me it would definitely be a more impressive creation.

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • F Offline
                      F Offline
                      fgadmin
                      wrote last edited by
                      #10

                      cbkoc — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 06:30 PM)

                      beep that's a good theory but like someone else pointed out, you got the name of the company wrong. I think I actually would have preferred that ending.

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • F Offline
                        F Offline
                        fgadmin
                        wrote last edited by
                        #11

                        andrewsleugh — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 06:35 PM)

                        Just think about when they are talking about the Turing test, Nathan says it doesn't work unless the participant doesn't know that they are working with a robot. What if the test was about Nathan's consciousness, and seeing if he is actually thinking without knowing he is a robot?

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • F Offline
                          F Offline
                          fgadmin
                          wrote last edited by
                          #12

                          jon_s_chan — 9 years ago(January 02, 2017 12:20 AM)

                          Caleb is not a robot, he is simply an idiot.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • F Offline
                            F Offline
                            fgadmin
                            wrote last edited by
                            #13

                            slartibartfast-62706 — 9 years ago(February 11, 2017 05:22 PM)

                            When I saw him cutting his arm in the preview, I thought this was going to be the twist.
                            But he so clearly is not an android.

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0

                            • Login

                            • Don't have an account? Register

                            Powered by NodeBB Contributors
                            • First post
                              Last post
                            0
                            • Categories
                            • Recent
                            • Tags
                            • Popular
                            • Users
                            • Groups