What separates «Ex Machina» from all those other movies about the potential dangers of sentient A.I., however, is the addition of Gleeson's character to the equation, because it uses Caleb's humanity /
moral compass against the audience to make you sympathetic towards Ava even though virtually every film about robots has taught us not to trust them.
Not exact matches
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality... I have even heard... that, without the Bible as a
moral compass, people would have no restraint
against murder, theft and mayhem.
This style of attack
against Christianity once again shows what happens when there is no
moral compass, and people think they can do whatever they want without accountability.
Right now this relationship goes
against your
moral compass.
The eccentrics extolled in the opening scene include Michael Burry (Christian Bale), a Northern California — based MD and money manager who invents the credit default swap in the mid-Aughts, when the film's central action kicks off; Mark Baum (Steve Carell, also hideously coiffed), an obnoxious hedge fund manager whose backstory involving a dead - by - suicide brother somehow positions him as the film's most steadfast
moral compass; and Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt), a onetime trader for Chase turned secular eschatologist who advises two young, aspiring operators, Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) and Charlie Geller (John Magaro), how to bet
against Wall Street.
Better yet, inducting 16 - and 17 - year - olds, whose
moral compasses still point true, will make us a more just society and will act as a safeguard
against those whose power coerces the rest of us into uncritical compliance.