Looking through some other people's comments, when it comes to "I, Robot" and "Blade Runner", in my opinion, that's not the case at all, this is a stripped-down version of "Ghost in the Shell". It's not fair to compare with cartoons, it's just for reference.
Perhaps due to the small cost of 80 million, this film does not have a gorgeous "visual feast" and focuses on human nature. As an American commercial film, due to the box office, it has to join the mindless gunfight and speeding explosion chase to save the world. Only a little bit of the title really shows emotion, and less than half of it, the protagonist is led by the nose by the plot.
Science fiction masters can build a future society and integrate fantasy into it. If you take out any one piece, there will be a story to tell. This film is a technology, a mind-controlled machine that extends the scope of the human body. However, its appearance is too abrupt, there is no scientific basis, there is no derivative product, and even the society has not made adjustments to it. Only the overwhelming advertising and marketing force you to believe that you have entered an era of machine substitutes.
The streets are full of stand-ins, long-distance real-time control, and communication using mobile phones? This is like two people talking on the phone, you have to teach them to control the robot, use the robot to make phone calls, and these two fools are willing to pay! Since there is an avatar network, why can't users communicate? The language communication between the avatars is superfluous. The robot has no expressions or small movements, and even face to face, it cannot tell whether it is lying.
Why does the stand-in have to go home from get off work? Just to recharge at home and do housework for real people? I suggest you save money on the car and get a second stand-in at home.
There are countless such questions, you can't point to the fishing net and curse: Why do you have so many holes? What about him, it doesn't hold water anyway.
Put all the technical issues aside and just talk about ideas. In the battle between technology and humanity, it seems that humanity has won. It's not religious preaching that revives humanity, it's the buttons in the hands of technocrats who wipe out technology. Technology promotes social progress, and the enemy of technology is the enemy of society. The foolish people who prevent technological progress will be eliminated by society.
The stand-in system was KO not because it was not in line with human nature, but because it did not transform society into a form that was in line with its interests, and it didn't make much difference whether to wear a vest or not.
Technology never waits for people to accept it. It coerces some people with interests and survival, and then controls the group until it kidnaps the entire society. Perhaps what our ancestors resisted and died for today is what we happily accept today.
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