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Sebastian Palazio is a New York-based financial professional who enjoys watching well-plotted movies and considers Cinema Paradiso one of his favorite films. A recent movie that impressed Sebastian Palazio is the science fiction thriller Ex Machina by Alex Garland.
The critically acclaimed movie is the debut directorial effort of Alex Garland, a novelist most famous for The Beach. Garland turned his attention to film as screenwriter of 28 Days Later (2002) and subsequently wrote the screenplay for Never Let Me Go (2010), based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel.
With Ex Machina, Garland explores the world of artificial intelligence and the ways in which sophisticated machines are given sex-specific identities. This relates to a state of “singularity,” at which point what is artificial and what is human becomes impossible to distinguish. A core question involves whether the human Caleb, subject of an elaborate test, will fall in love with the cyborg Ava, despite knowing that she is a robot. The movie received widespread recognition for the deft handling of its complex theme and earned the 2015 Gerardmer Film Festival Jury Prize.
Sebastian Palazio 