Since the machine shows that she will kill Forest in a few minutes, she’ll instead throw the gun away.Įven though Forest and Katie (Alison Pill) have been utilizing the Deus machine’s apparent fortune-telling properties for months, it would seem Lily is the first to go against its probabilistic predictions. Yet Lily immediately challenges that belief. There was no way to prevent the freak accident that ruined his life, right? And that means using the Deus machine to watch projections of her (or a version of her) from years ago is just as good as having her in his arms. For a man who lost his daughter due to a split-second car crash, it’s comforting stuff. “Life is just something we watch unfold like pictures on a screen,” Forest tells Lily. If everything is cause and effect, then everything that has happened or will happen has been predetermined by preexisting events and influences. They also create a fertile ground for heady sci-fi ideas like proving (or disproving) determinism. For me that’s the traffic jam rather than a phone or the messaging app, or the social media app.” They’re serving it and we’re desperate to drink it.
“It’s like we’re all trying to drink the Kool-Aid. “The thing that interests me is we keep treating entrepreneurs as if they’re geniuses,” Garland explains. Nathan would view Forest with a high degree of contempt, and Forest would think that Nathan is barking mad.” “Actually, they almost certainly would have,” Garland laughs before noting “Deus Ex Machina” primarily operates as a joke. Still, we could not help but muse if the two projects are connected, could they be occurring in the same universe? Maybe there’s at least some place out there in the multiverse, as per Lyndon’s Principle, where Nathan and Forest met at a Bay area tech conference? It was two sides of the relationship with God.” In Devs, you have a man attempting to create God. As one character in Devs says, “Forest isn’t a genius he’s an entrepreneur.”Įxplains Garland, “The real point of connection to me was that Ex Machina, we have a man acting as if he was God. By contrast, Forest is perhaps a more realistic CEO. Now in his 30s, he becomes a modern day Frankenstein by building in his own home the first general artificial intelligence–an AI that is self-conscious and able to learn new skills and concepts like a human intellect. He began building the fictional company of Blue Book (think Google) at the age of 13 when he wrote the search engine’s code. In the 2015 film, Nathan definitely has a messiah complex, even manipulating the words of employees so that for posterity it’ll sound like they fawningly said, “You’re not a man, you’re a god.” But Nathan is undeniably a genius. It completed the phrase with two projects that have often complemented each other.”īut even as complements, there are key differences between the film and television series, just as there are between Forest and Ex Machina’s Nathan (Oscar Isaac). It just made me laugh that these two projects were doing something like they’re two sides of the same coin. “For me, it was almost exactly as Forest presented in the show,” Garland says. So of course we had to bring that up to Garland when we chatted last month.
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By revealing the name of the series to be Deus instead of Devs, Garland forever links his first series with his first directorial effort, and completes the phrase “ Deus Ex Machina.” The term is Latin for “God from the Machine,” and it’s a literary device where an inexplicable act of seemingly divine intervention offers salvation and a happy ending. It’s also a hell of an easter egg for Garland and science fiction fans. The V is Roman, so actually a U.” In other words, this whole time the Devs team has really been the Deus team, the Roman word for God. “I’ll tell you a secret Lily,” Forest then adds, “I’ve been wanting to tell someone for a while.
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He lays out for Lily that the world turns on a deterministic model of cause and effect, and no matter what she thinks about the illusion of free will, she is going to shoot him in the face about five minutes from now. Confident and assured in his knowledge of the universe running on predetermined rails, Forest is smugly magnanimous underneath his beard and Jesus Christ styled hair. The duality was spelled out when protagonist Lily (Sonoya Mizuno) and tech CEO Forest (Nick Offerman) have their heart-to-heart. Now after the Devs series finale, that link has become explicit. After all, Devs is a companion piece for its creator and his cinematic directorial debut, Ex Machina, and in both fictions, a tech CEO attempts to rebuild the world in his own image. At least that’s what poor Jamie (Jin Ha) suspected on Alex Garland’s Devs, and it’s what Garland believes too. Tech company CEOs always think they’re messiahs. This article contains major Devs spoilers.
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