Five years ago, this line in the film "Terminator 2018" is timeless: a robot with a human heart and mind, in order to save an important person. Giving my life, that scene really made my nose sore and tearful for a while.
Now, "Robocop" has made me revisit this sentence again, but this time it is a dying person. After being given a mechanical body, he is given a new life under the control of a human. He went from being an excellent police officer who was killed to a Robocop who punished crimes.
However, there are too many conspiracies hidden behind RoboCop Murphy: the company that produces "him" wants to make huge profits, but reduces his dopamine and adrenaline levels, and wipes out his humanity in order to increase the precision and ruthlessness of combat; his The employer, a senior officer of the Detroit Police Department, secretly wanted to get rid of him because he was bribed by the gang... It seems that business scandals, police corruption and other malpractices exist in the democratic capital that many people yearn for.
In the film, the mass media are headless flies and clown-like megaphones. After hyping the success and greatness of the robotics company, then accusing the robotics company of preventing Murphy from meeting with his family, he finally said insanely: Anyway, America is the greatest country in the world! I don't know if the director is satirizing hegemony or promoting patriotism. It sounds disgusting.
Forgive him! Conflict and stimulation are just the wonderful content pursued by the media, but, as the majority of the audience, don’t be dazed, chew French fries, sit in front of the TV and accept any information without thinking, which requires us to improve our media literacy ( media literacy), cultivate critical thinking, no longer be regarded as vulnerable "fools", and no longer provide justification for GFW to block Facebook and YouTube.
Of course, the film's scientific and philosophical speculation about man (human) and machine (machine) is not preachy, but it is thought-provoking: human beings have prejudice, emotion and fear, but compared with ruthless machines, they greatly reduce the efficiency of work. Will it make our lives better, or will it lead humanity into the abyss of a never-ending, endless cycle?
There is also a line in "Robocop": Heroes are great, but what is greater than a hero? That is the dead hero. This once again pushed the mass media that likes to "create gods" to the forefront: those models and examples that have been established, after the precipitation and erosion of history, what is left is the truth that tends to the origin of things, or the kindness and goodness in art. beautiful?
Just as a series of seemingly unsolvable problems poured into his mind, the Robocop in front of him finally used the powerful willpower of human beings to break through the shackles set by the computer program and retrieve his temperament: for his wife, for his son, to destroy The bad guys who destroyed this wonderful family.
What he did at this time was neither out of the public interest nor as selfless as a hero, but he was so real, so warm, this is a real person, and the eternal support in the hearts of his wife and son.
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