I went to see it right after it was released. I have high expectations for this movie. First, because the concept is very attractive, I haven't watched the original anime, so I probably understood the plot of the theatrical version before watching it, so I like the idea and the concept. The second is because of Scarlett.
The special effects are amazing. They are different from traditional Hollywood special effects blockbusters in many details and artistic conception. They express a beautiful artistic conception and have a taste of Chinese ink painting. Even in some shots, I felt Wong Kar Wai's style.
Visual aspects aside, the storyline is credited to the original anime because it's not an original movie. The concept of this movie is that in the future, human beings have used machine parts to replace human organs, information technology explodes, and through hardware devices, the brain can quickly read and store any information. The heroine major is the first "human" whose body parts are replaced by machines except the brain. The protagonist belongs to a special crime-fighting team. While investigating the case, the major finds that he is just a tool and his memory has been modified, so a huge question arises, am I an independent person?
Due to the length of the plot, the plot is not expanded. It should only be selected from a few animation clips. However, through these combined clips, I have a deep sense of horror. What is a human being? What the movie expresses is that there are only souls, ghosts, even people. But the major's memory has been tampered with. If it wasn't for the suspicion of the case, it is very likely that the major will live like this all her life, so is she considered an independent person? The difference from robots is that they live according to other people's settings, and majors are all machine parts except their brains.
Nowadays, artificial intelligence has made great progress, and research in the field of robotics has also made sudden and rapid progress. In the near future, the world of movies may also become a reality. At that time, how do we humans distinguish whether we exist independently? How do we know whether we are human or not? Woolen cloth? Don't talk about the future, just talk about the present, do we humans have independent personalities? Throughout our life, the education we receive from childhood to adulthood shapes our character and personality. Different education levels, different educational concepts, people will have different characters and personalities. So are we independent? Was it created? If a Chinese child grows up in China, he will be "virtuous, intelligent, beautiful, laborious, benevolent, righteous, polite, filial and filial." If he grows up in the United States, he will have a completely different character and ideology. Therefore, human personality can be shaped and changed. Where does the spirit of independence come from? No one is completely independent, it is society, it is the state that shapes and transforms you, and human beings are a tool.
Now the dissemination of information is no longer a single channel, everyone can transform others and be transformed by others. Passively reading a lot of information every day, values and thoughts are being subtly transformed. Since the argument that the bad guys are getting old, the society's concept of the elderly has quietly changed. You and I may not have really seen it, experienced it. Yes, but just by constantly reading such news and rhetoric, my self-consciousness has changed. How many people have been transformed by chicken soup articles and health articles, these chicken soup health articles have become the living standards of many people.
People have never had the so-called independent spirit, and they are just different tools to maintain society.
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