Page 4 April 30, 2015 EL SEGUNDO HERALD puz MEDIUM 04.30.15 PUZZLE - 171 Catching Some Rays by Myles Mellor WEEKLY CROSSWORD See Answers Next Week Catching Some Rays 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 44. Last Greek consonant 45. Gladys Night backup singer 46. Like some pitches 50. Guards against glare 55. Atmosphere 56. Be of use to 57. Ain’t correct? 58. Jack-o’-lantern feature 59. Bob’s companion 60. Yorkshire river 61. Steep 62. More sound 63. Not e’en once Down 1. Elegance 2. Put together 3. Acid in proteins 4. Ammo belt 5. Minded 6. Renal, for one 7. Center of activity 8. Fresh 9. Squandered 10. Rundown 11. Mounted on 12. Green gem 1. Grouch 5. Alphabetic system 10. Indian king 14. Andes capital 15. Shrovetide dish 16. Bibliographical abbr. 17. Opposed, in Dogpatch 18. Overhangs 19. End piece 20. Weekly delivery 23. Wound 24. 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To appear in next week’s paper, submit your Classifed Ad by Noon on Tuesday. By Ryan Rojas for CINEMACY “Deus ex machina,” meaning “god from the machine,” refers to an ancient Greek plot device used in storytelling that refers to the inexplicable saving or resolving of an assumedly unsolvable problem by the sudden and unexpected intervention of some new character or event, through miraculous, divine hand. In the new sci-fi drama Ex Machina, humans have evolved highly enough to assume the role of creator of life, assuming the role of God altogether. Yet as writer and director Alex Garland shows, there can be devastating effects in playing Creator, creating self-aware sentients that show that when all you have left is “from the machine,” the state of “life” itself is one that might not only apply to humans. English-born Garland, best known for his screenwriting efforts for big-screen event pics, particularly the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later... and Sunshine, as well as Never Let Me Go and Dredd, is a revered voice in sci-fi cinema for creating such unique and long-standing films that rile not just imaginations, but so to their more intelligent quotients. Which is why it’s a breath of fresh air to see his first directed feature film hit theaters, as it is already showing promise of one of the year’s best. Ex Machina tells the story of a young programmer, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), who is selected to participate in the opportunity to test an artificially intelligent robot, Ava, (Alicia Vikander) created by tech-wiz recluse and quirk-capitalist Nathan (Oscar Isaac), and discover what qualities make it human enough to possibly pass. The stylishly beautiful compositions and camerawork might allude to the work of a director with ample film experience. And you’d be right, but not if you thought directing was his plan to do all along – or work in movies in general, for that matter. “I didn’t even really plan to be a novelist,” Garland relays in a phone interview, referring to his hit novel The Beach that was later adapted by filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours). “Like the whole thing that set the thing in motion was never, in a strange way, an intention,” he continues. “It actually came from having worked in comic books, drawing rather than writing. And realizing I was never going to cut it. And I’d been writing for stuff that I was drawing, and I essentially ditched the drawings and therefore ended up writing. And if you’re writing without drawing you’re kind of writing a novel, and that’s sort of what happened.” There are only three characters, and yet any more would throw the whole thing off course, or at least be a different movie. The small dynamic provides, to Garland, a tonal view of how these big ideas could be most effectively understood and related to these very tight characters and relationships: “I did really like the way it was planned to be executed, in this sort of chamber piece vibe, because it’s very exposing. It doesn’t give anyone anywhere to hide. You can’t hide behind sort of action sequences; you can’t hide behind momentum, to push you past an awkward plot point. One of the ways you get past awkward plot points, of the sort we were just talking about, is you just drive past them. But then something like this is too slow and reflective to be able to do that.” For all of Machina’s big ideas and heavy genre, the film is a whole lot of fun. Heck, a surprising portion of it is actually quite funny. But hiding just behind those humorously settling moments are the planted workings of story misdirections, fake-outs, and twists, that give the whole thing increased gains in excitement, as the intoxicating experience becomes clearer. Machina, as opposed to Garland’s other accomplishments in film, stands out in particular, as only a creative type would acknowledge: “I just feel really good about it. It’s the only project I’ve ever worked on where I just feel a kind of undiluted sense of contentment with it.” Ex Machina is in theaters nationwide. • Film Review Alicia Vikander as Ava in Ex Machina. Still courtesy of A24.
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