Unlike the fresh and creamy taste of popcorn, the adaptation of the novel of the same name is gripping. In my opinion, "Live" is the third film after "Hacksaw Ridge" and "Absolute Control" that always grasps the audience's emotions. I'd be as embarrassed, as terrified as the protagonist, even nearly standing up nervously as Sydney straddles the iron ladder.
The reason why "Live for Life" is successful is because the script is extremely good. Lionsgate Pictures has a unique vision and selects the most popular online live broadcasts as the background of the story to explore the indifference of human nature and the lack of bottom line in the Internet age. The story of "Live for Life" happened to young people. They are the main participants in the online live broadcast, and it is naturally easier to empathize with them. Before discussing the theme of this film, let’s look at some news first:
2014.12.08 Beijing News “Livestreaming Suicide Teenager Who Said He Didn’t Want to Die Netizens: You Must Die”
2016.01.01 CCTV Network “A Shanghai Game Host Had a Car Accident During Live Streaming”
2016.08 .02 Beijing Morning News "The female e-sports anchor has a chaotic image, leaks her breasts and changes her clothes. 18 bans are comparable to pornography"
2016.10.12 Anhui Satellite TV "Betta live sex is hotly debated"
2016.11.07 Beibei.com "Live broadcast fake public welfare, send money and get back Anchor: In order to increase fans"
2016.12.15 Global Network "The female accountant embezzled 1.64 million public funds to reward the male anchor"
2017.01.05 CCTV "Three teenagers climbed over the railway protection net to increase the number of hits for the live broadcast"
2017.01.08 Chengdu Express "The young guy takes drugs on the live broadcast" Say I'm bored and want to go to jail"
All these appear in the newspapers, all of which reveal the endless chaos of online live broadcasts. This is true in China, and also abroad. This is the rivers and lakes of the Internet, just like the ancient buskers, the audience gave rewards out of happiness, vanity or embarrassment, and the right should be a pastime and watch the fun. Concealment is an important reason for the rapid popularity of webcasting. Watching the live broadcast, you don't need to spend money, you don't need a real-name system, and you don't have to take responsibility for anything that happens. For some things that you dare not do or can't do, you can let the anchor do it for you to satisfy your curiosity and voyeurism. Webcasting has thus become an outlet for people's repressed desires in normal social life. The viewers of the live broadcast are like the "numb spectators" described by Lu Xun, who have lost their bottom line in the anonymous world:
the subtext of the live broadcast suicide is to plead for everyone's help, but thousands of people said in unison: "Quickly die, don't waste my traffic." The despairing anchor was sniffing the gas alone, and the hope of survival was strangled to death by a group of strangers. After he died, the spectators dispersed, no one apologized, no one cared, no one realized that he was an accomplice. Similarly, when drug abuse, sex and other illegal and moral behaviors appear in the live broadcast, everyone has the obligation to report it, and the audience must not condone it. But the fact is that all kinds of dangerous live broadcasts are in full swing, and the state has to come forward and forcibly ban them. The online live broadcast completely exposed the evil of human nature. It turns out that everyone has two completely different faces.
"Live for Life" positively reveals the evils of online live broadcasting. In the film, Nerve is an all-weather online live broadcast platform that is popular in the United States. It will comprehensively record the personal privacy of viewers and anchors, which is convenient for designing games and acting as a coercive bargaining chip. The audience votes for the host to design the challenge content, and the host must complete it within the specified time. The winners will receive huge bounties, and the losers' bounties will be confiscated; the "informers" who threaten the operation of the game will be detained, their full privacy will be released to the public, and their families will be retaliated against. However, Nerve still attracts a lot of young players who want to prove that they are "brave" and "handsome" and a large number of spectators who watch the fun and don't take it too seriously. At the beginning, the audience's challenges were just "kissing a stranger", "going into the city with him", "trying on expensive leather clothes", etc., which soon changed to "lying on the sleepers and waiting for the train to pass by", "running at 60Km" Blindfolded riding a motorcycle at a speed of /h", "Hanging on a 100-meter-high altitude with one hand for 5 seconds", "crossing the fire with two people", "crossing the rails before the subway arrives at the station", etc. Require. For the sake of money, even for the sake of their families, the anchors can only do the same. What awaits them is the audience's highly released hormones, happy screams and even more bottomless demands. More and more anchors are injured and die during the live broadcast, but the audience is not tired of it. After some tossing, Vee and Ian successfully entered the final. Vee used suspended animation to awaken the conscience of millions of viewers. Tommy, Kween and other teammates chased after the victory to shut down Nerve.
"Fate Live" is very similar to "The Hunger Games", which is cannibalistic and chasing fame and fortune. Because the participants and bystanders of the game are both sinners and victims. The evil of human nature is there, but the anonymous network amplifies it, and the live broadcast platform releases it. The final challenge of the film is to get the anchors to shoot each other, whoever shoots first wins. Vee shouted, "Is this what you want, is this bravery?" The audience was silent, but still voted "Shoot out" in the vote. Some people even said, "Don't be a mother-in-law, just finish the game." When I saw this, I felt a chill behind my back, isn't this China, isn't this China where information security is not optimistic? The gunshots sounded, who released the evil, and who condoned the evil? The best answer lies in the text Tommy and Kween sent to the audience: "You are an accomplice to the murder."
The young people's world outlook is in the formative stage, and the good and the bad are still unclear. They don't know that those who kill are reckless no matter how praised they are, and those who are bystanders are murderers no matter how whitewashed they are. True courage is steadfastness and steadfastness. The passion of youth is still on accumulation and dedication, and don't exchange a scar for a lifetime of "unworthy".
Although the ending of "Game of Thrones" is abrupt, it does give the audience a successful step: the platform is shut down, the audience is awakened, the heroine is rescued, and the loss is recovered... However, the reality is that the person who pretends to be asleep cannot be awakened. If you can't get rid of weeds and bamboo shoots, you can't afford to lose your life, and you won't be able to fight deeply. Looking at history, the Nazis who slaughtered Jews, skinned and dismantled their bones, there were many well-dressed teachers and nurses; the Japanese soldiers who cut their hearts, drunk alcohol, and extracted fetuses, who did not have loved relatives and family; There must be sons and daughters of the same age. Every bloody massacre, every collective indifference, is like this. Hegel said: "The only lesson of history is that people have never learned any lessons from history." Although the online live broadcast is not as cruel and crazy as the film, but under the anonymity, human nature has revealed its true edge. Those of us who participated in the live broadcast have not yet fully learned the lesson, and we do not want the Internet to become the next battlefield that will destroy humanity.
"The Qin people are too busy to mourn themselves, and the descendants will mourn; the descendants will mourn and not learn from it, and the descendants will also mourn the descendants." Today, mobile phones and computers can be seen everywhere, and the Internet and cloud are at your fingertips, and everyone is deeply moved. trapped in it. Soldier or accomplice, you choose.
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