Although the viewing experience is extremely bad, it does not prevent me from recommending this movie to others.
Leave the pull tabs to the professionals, let's talk about something different.
Chappie's plot is actually a flow chart of the evolution of the machine world: the first step of human brain and machine competition (the relationship between Dean's robot police and Vincent's moose) - the second step of human brain temporary failure, Machines gain the upper hand (human cops choose to order machine cops) - Step 3 Machines desire further development, but are hindered for various reasons (Company doesn't agree with Dean to continue research) - Step 4 Humans turn against machines (Vincent Let the robot police crash, the thugs destroy the robot police) - Step 5, the machine can't be suppressed forever, it finds a way out by itself (Chappie solves the problem of lack of electricity) - Step 6 The machine finally develops itself (Chappie resurrects its "mom," and it can be seen that "mom" is a completely different machine).
It will be much more interesting to put this plot into the real world: the computer was invented by humans in the last century, and the originally weak computing power has been continuously enhanced; at the end of the last century, computers defeated humans in many fields; humans began to fanatically believe in new technologies. Power, but the result is the Internet bubble; after the bubble burst, investors began to reject the Internet; but the future will not be based on human will. Big data, mobile Internet, and even offline technology involved in O2O are eager to enter every aspect of our lives. a corner. So where are we now? Think about the discussion about artificial intelligence in Zhihu two days ago!
Chappie's director, Neill Blomkamp, is South African but now lives in Vancouver. I personally believe that he must have read the books of the Canadian philosopher McLuhan when he went to school in Canada, and he conveyed McLuhan's philosophical thoughts through Chappie.
"Technology constantly changes people and stimulates people to constantly look for ways to improve technology. Thus, people become the sex organs of the machine world, just as bees are the sex organs of the plant world, they enable the plant world to reproduce and evolve more advanced species. The world of machines reciprocates goods, services, and rewards. Therefore, the relationship between man and machine is inherently symbiotic," Marshall McLuhan told Playboy magazine at his home in Toronto in 1969.
Remember "The Shallow" that was all the rage back then? The author believes that the human brain will change because of the computer. But isn't the computer born and transformed from the human brain? As the sexual organs of the machine world, human beings are transformed and transformed by machines; just like the relationship between mother and child, the child comes from the mother, but the life of the mother also changes with the arrival of the child.
The most commendable thing is that when most Hollywood movies stop at the fourth step (humans defeating machines), Blomkamp projects a relatively novel perspective into the plot in Chappie: Can machines develop themselves? Can humans always beat machines? After a while, Avengers 2 was released in China, which happened to be a stark contrast to Chappie: it would be evil for machines to gain intelligence, and human heroes had to defeat them.
In my opinion, this kind of thinking about the future is what attracts me most to Chappie. What should the relationship between man and machine (computer) be like? Chappie is a "good guy" who doesn't want to hurt anyone, and feels guilty after he robs and hurts the police. Isn't this kind of artificial intelligence bad? Chappie input Dean's consciousness into the robot police, so is this robot police still artificial intelligence? There can even be deeper thinking, is the new Dean still a human being? If we consider the ability to think as the greatest characteristic of human beings, then there is no doubt that New Dean is human. So what is the body in that case? If machines can give us immortality, what is the need for the flesh? If this day comes, then man is no longer the sex organ of the machine world, and the sex organ of the machine is the machine itself (or PS4 (laughs)).
Another quote from McLuhan gives these questions a possibly correct answer
. We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
We define the tool, and the tool defines us; we define the machine, and maybe we are the machine.
Therefore, I recommended this movie in the circle of friends, not because I simply thought it was good, but because it made us think. One can't help but think, can't they?
After all, there are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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