The painting style of "Blade Runner" and the plot of "The Truman World" make the story very fascinating. With the addition of the "alien" brain hole, this film can be said to be very sci-fi. The question of aliens about the human soul is precisely the truth that human beings themselves have been searching for, and the movie implies that the reason why people are human is not because of their memory, but because of their original heart. In other words, this coincides with the claim of the author of "Making Your Wife a Hat Wrong", that human beings are human not only by the rational left brain, but also by the emotional right brain. Memory carries a person's past, but the answer to the proposition "Who am I?" does not seem to be a simple accumulation of past experiences. Memories can be forged, but thoughts and personality cannot. From a scientific point of view, this movie seems to emphasize the importance of genes, while weakening the shaping of a person by the environment. Looking at it today, this is actually not accurate. Memory to some extent represents the influence of the environment on a person. Influence, and the interaction of environment and genes, are inseparable to a person's growth. However, it is too absolute to say this. After all, this film is about memories that have been stolen. Perhaps the original real memories and experiences have completed the shaping of a person's three views, and even if the memory is later replaced, it will not affect its original character. In the end, even if you have nothing, even if you lose all the memories and connections of the past, the pursuit of love and truth is the meaning of existence. This film can also extract another theme, which is the uniqueness of people. The races represented by aliens have group thoughts and live on parasitic human corpses. Individuals cannot have independent thoughts or memories, and everything is shared. However, such a species is on the verge of extinction. The reason why human beings can reproduce for generations is not only because of the social system of gregarious cooperation, but also the uniqueness of the individual occupies an important position. Without individual genetic mutations, humans cannot adapt to the ever-changing environment and will be eliminated by natural selection. From this perspective, the uniqueness of the individual is of great significance. In addition to reproduction, culture is enriched because of diversity and innovation because of collision.
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