IN Ex-Machine (2014) by Alex Garland, science and artificial intelligence are examined for their most promising aspects. So Ava (Alicia Vikander) is not just a machine capable of quickly learning human traits. At the same time, it demonstrates how the learning process allows you to make your own decisions and even understand situations from your own point of view. Which leads to the movie to the darkest, most confusing and ultimately even deadly points.
That’s when Ava takes all the knowledge she’s learned and uses it to break free from the control of her creator Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and manipulate Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson). All in order to escape from the place where she was isolated and mix with the outside world. So, what begins as a journey for knowledge soon turns into a fight for survival and even cold-blooded murder. After all, the film shows the protagonist free from all ties and, in particular, using all the technology at his disposal – and the advantages they give him – to come face to face with the human world.
Of course, this is not the first time—and far from the first—that cinema has been able to reimagine the scientific world as an enemy that must be defeated. We leave you with seven films in which science and technology become a form of evil. Or anyway, into an instrument of causing harm in unknown proportions and scale. A horrifying scenario that the movie uses from different angles.
Gattaca: a genetic experiment (Filmin)
Andrew Niccol took the controversial concept of eugenics and took it to horrific proportions in his 1997 film. It not only explores modern evils through discrimination and segregation. At the same time, imagine how rapid and effective technological advances in medicine could be used in sinister ways. This is by converting people in beings created from the womb to become perfect.
This causes society, which comes up with a script also written by the director, to despise those who are conceived naturally and outside the attempts of laboratories to eradicate any imperfection. After all, a culture that rejects any physical defects becomes a territory of horror. and the most perverse moment of the power of science over human life.
Avengers: Age of Ultron (Disney+)
Although the Marvel Cinematic Universe is based on a wide range of characters, from alien races to wizards, science takes center stage. And in fact, the world of the hero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is based on technological inventions and the triumph of the scientific field. as a tool for protecting the human world.
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This is why Ultron’s (voiced by James Spader) attack in Avengers: Age of Ultron This is especially tragic. Created as Tony’s response to the possibility of an alien attack, he eventually becomes a threat. That is, having realized oneself and made the decision to eradicate the human race, considering it responsible for the possible destruction of the planet. Optics which turned him into an enemy to be defeated, as well as a bloodthirsty killer.
Mechanical spawn (Filmin)
Directed by Donald Cammell, this adaptation of Dean Koontz’s book of the same name is a rare blend of anti-science paranoia and technological horror. A film that follows a scientist as he creates a type of autonomous artificial intelligence called Proteus and then he must face her, It’s frightening in its details.
Moreover, the plot is a predecessor of many other current ones – the plot has more than obvious similarities with M3GAN — and intriguingly explores the possibility. What would happen if a robot was capable of learning only the most reprehensible human behavior? This is exactly what happens when Proteus rebels and ends up taking control of his creator’s life – and even falling in love with his creator’s wife – in a terrifying twist on the dangers of science and robotics.
Blade Runner (Max)
The question of intelligent beings created by man has become an obsession in cinema. Something in which blade runnerexplores the philosophical implications that changed science fiction forever. Yes in mechanical spawnartificial intelligence managed to fall in love, in the work of Ridley Scott it becomes indistinguishable from a living creature. What makes the so-called replicators be, moreover, victims of a kind of scientific pettiness that hurts.
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This creature has a very short useful life, which will make them question the absurdity of living to the fullest only to die immediately. The film’s tough ethical and scientific debates become more complicated when the android Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) rebels against his creators to find his purpose. Which allows the story to delve into a darker version of science and technology.
Prometheus (Disney+)
In this prequel to the Alien saga, almost everything is created and designed for scientific discussion. From the existence of David (Michael Fassbender), an ambitious and cruel artificial intelligence with no ethical qualities, to the use of the scientific field to explain spirituality. The truth is that this tape Ridley Scott gets into some difficult places from the first scene.
But more than that, he asks uncomfortable and new questions about the role of science and its achievements in human history. With grim implications including the possibility that an omnipotent being hates his creations, the premise of Prometheus becomes increasingly harsh. Especially when he hints at it, After all, science is the only answer to human philosophical suffering.
2001: A Space Odyssey (Max)
If Ridley Scott’s David is a ruthless killer, then HAL-9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is the closest thing to a supernatural, almost demonic creature. Only it was built by man. Without an anthropomorphic physical form—just a rectangle with a light button—it possesses a human voice (Douglas Raine) and a directive of self-preservation. But he has no order that would prevent him from causing harm the people of the crew of the ship of which he is a part.
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This causes him to make cruel, cruel and murderous decisions at the slightest opportunity. The worst thing is that HAL never changes his monotonous and almost friendly intonation: making it a terrifying predecessor to the current Siri and Alexa.
Never Let Me Go (Disney+)
This adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel has a terrifying premise because of how possible it is. Namely, the possibility that science will find a way to create custom clones that will be used to help potential buyers stay healthy and alive.This is despite the fact that they end up maiming and even killing their finished versions.
Director Mark Romanek, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Alex Garland, takes a terrifying opportunity and turns it into a painful story. Especially when it shows how ruthless, insatiable and inexorable science can be withoutmoral or ethical reflection. A low-key sci-fi gem that we recommend you watch on Disney+.
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