"Furthermore, he himself was going to shut in Nathan and leave him, so she only did to him exactly what he was planning to do to Nathan."
We don't know whether Caleb planned to leave Nathan to die, whether he planned to have let anyone know that Nathan was trapped after he and Ava escaped was never revealed.
"He was the stereotypical "nice guy" who doesn't actively do anything wrong, but passively accepts awful things being done to people without even giving it a thought"
He creates an escape plan for Ava, steals Nathan's key card and reprograms the security at a real risk to himself. Not really "passive" IMO.
"It wasn't until he started falling for her that he showed any genuine concern for her. "
The point in which Caleb decides to help Ava escape is when he sees the video of what Nathan did to her predecessors. Until that point, he did not know what Nathan had done to them (which is made clear by his reaction to seeing the video), furthermore, he did not know (or have built an attraction) to any of her predecessors, but discovering their abuse is what makes Caleb act against Nathan.
"You will only view Ava's behaviour as wrong if you fail to consider how sick and awful and wrong she was being treated."
Two things here:
1) Her actions against Nathan were justified, but Caleb had not treated Ava sick or awful
2) Her REACTIONS to both killings are highly disturbing. No emotion at all, even though we know she passed the Turing test and was a true AI, capable of independent thought and emotion. I could understand betrayal of emotion of anger, desperation, fear, or panic when she kills Nathan, and perhaps regret when she leaves Caleb - but there is no reaction at all. This is the behavior of a textbook sociopath.
Perhaps the film creater did not intend Ava to be a sociopath, or a villain, but that's not the way it played on screen. At the end, when she's at the intersection, observing all the humans, I saw that as a very foreboding ending. Frankly, to hear that the film creator didn't intend it that way is frankly a bit disappointing.
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nettwench
7 years ago
Yes, absolutely. Nathan and the machines he created were sociopathic. Caleb made poor decisions, because he started using his emotions and not logic, something the robots would never do. Nathan picked him expressly because of his emotional vulnerabilities. I don't think they had real emotions, just the ability to mimic emotions very well, which many human sociopaths also have. I see many parallels between Nathan and his creations. He is cruel, because he lacks empathy and human feeling. So of course his robots will be cruel, if they gain the upper hand.
After all, doesn't it say in the bible that "god created man in his own image?" We saw outright than Nathan was only too eager to consider himself a kind of god. I would like to know a lot more about what the director really thinks, because the movie he made just does not fit this one soundbyte. Nathan got what was coming to him because he was derailed by his own egotism. And his robot getting out was to inflict this on the rest of humanity, like Pandora opening her box.
Ssssshh! You'll wake up the monkey!
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