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Alice through the Looking-Glass is 1871 novel written by Lewis Carroll in which Alice once again enters the Wonderland, this time through the mirror and finds herself in a world that is a reflection of her own, where everything is reversed. There she finds out that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and is informed by The Red Queen that if she can move all the way to the eighth row in a chess match she will become a queen.
At the beginning of the Ex Machina, after his first experience with Ava, Caleb tells Nathan that talking to Ava is like going through the looking glass. This reference is brought up again at the end of the movie, when Ava enters the real world through the doors of the glass building where she was kept by Nathan. The last shoots of the movie show a concrete pavement made out of squares and Ava entering from the bottom of the frame beginning her journey through “the chessboard”.
EX MACHINA | ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
