I was looking forward to seeing the trailer of the new Netflix drama before: In the future, a chip will be implanted in the spine of a human being at the age of one , to encode consciousness, as long as this chip is not destroyed, then human consciousness can be reproduced on any body. In other words, human beings are immortal.
The grandeur of the universe is no longer a problem, and the stars and the sea are no longer a yearning. In the endless life, people can finally enjoy the great exploration of this ancient and prehistoric world. This is also the inventor of this immortal technology. Falconer (Falconer) original intention.
But soon Falconer sensed something ominous. In human history, if there is one last trace of fairness, it is the fairness of all beings in the face of death. So many generations of emperors who have dominated the world have finally bowed their knees before death. And she has undoubtedly opened Pandora's box: Humans have obtained immortality, but achieving immortality requires resources, in other words, money. Therefore, the more realistic consequence of this technology is that the rich and powerful are immortalized, while the humble can only watch the rich and powerful look immortal from generation to generation.
So Falconer organized a rebel army, ready to destroy the life of this new world created by himself, and put an end to this immortal technology by implanting a virus. The protagonist Vukovac is in this rebel army. Then they were wiped out, and the protagonist became the only one who survived. After spending 250 years in prison, his consciousness chip was pardoned by the New World's richest man, Bancroft, through lobbying. In return, Vukovac must Investigate a murder against Bancroft.
The rebel army who tried to kill the vested interests ended up giving their lives to the vested interests, which is the irony of the story at the beginning. As the story progresses layer by layer, larger conspiracies continue to surface. As a detective film, the copy is also very well done.
Outside of the plot, the biggest highlight of this TV series is the full cyberpunk element. In the rainy Los Angeles, the neon lights shrouded the sight in the water vapor, and passers-by with transparent umbrellas were hurrying. Roadside food stalls, black trench coats, scantily clad girls peddling cheap desires.
High in the sky lived rich people who called themselves Methuselah, the 965-year-old Methuselah in the Bible. Their loose white robes fluttered like the nobility of ancient Greece, and yes, they dressed themselves as the gods of Olympus. Then, in the face of God, indulge one's own desires, laugh at the life and death of others, and class struggle, as one of the eternal themes of cyberpunk, is vividly displayed here.
A girl from a poor family becomes a sex slave of a rich man. Even if she is sexually abused to death and buys a new body for her, the poor girl feels that she is a kind guest. The people's police charged into battle and suffered heavy losses. When they were sent to the hospital, they were refused treatment because of insufficient personal account balance.
However, the cyberpunk elements in the copy are only there. As for the proposition of "who is a human being" in a world where memory can be transferred, the copy merely calls the memory chip "soul", and has no intention to explore it in depth. Even the artificial intelligence "Poe" that shines in this work, the artificial intelligence hotel owner tailored according to Edgar Allan Poe, a heresy in artificial intelligence who loves detective novels and humans, is only in the story. Depicting his loyalty to mankind without trying to discuss, as an artificial intelligence, what is the difference between him and a human who stores consciousness in a chip? And this is the consistent theme from Blade Runner to Ghost in the Shell: who are people, where is their soul?
In order to avoid these propositions that may be unfriendly to ordinary audiences, this work cannot help but not stand up to scrutiny on many settings. For example, after the female protagonist lost an arm due to injury, the male protagonist used the money given to him by the rich to buy an extremely strong artificial limb for the female protagonist. But if a prosthetic limb is so powerful, why are the villains in the story reluctant to give up the human body? Why didn't fully mechanized people show up? This is a logical development after the emergence of memory chip technology, but in the story, 300 years after the invention of this technology, human beings are still obsessed with their fragile flesh, and this story does not explain anything. In other words, in order to prevent the story from falling into philosophical speculation, the main creator intentionally makes the technology of human society develop asymmetrically, discards all those technologies that may cause ethical problems, and only picks up one of them (consciousness storage) to build the story.
In fact, this story is more like a humanistic ethics drama in a cyberpunk coat. The main creator may have no intention of making this work so hard-core for the sake of ratings, but is committed to telling the eternal motif about human beings : love, affection, desire and betrayal.
But this still does not prevent this work from becoming an audio-visual feast for cyberpunk fans, the black outer armor of the alliance special forces, the female samurai who wields a long knife and slashes people's heads, the projection screen on the wasteland, the flying car in the sky, The violence and pornographic clips that are not shy in order to serve the plot make this TV series very enjoyable to watch.
And the only one of the cyberpunk themes that this work is trying to depict throughout the whole chapter: class differentiation, it also shows you in every detail the degree of injustice and injustice in a highly technologically developed human society. At the end of the sea of stars, not only are battleships on fire at the edge of the Orion constellation, not only are C-rays shining in the darkness near the gate of Tang Huaise, but there are also charcoal sellers in the new world. The charcoal is cheap and the weather is cold.
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