This is an excellent movie. What's great is that this very rich, gripping film is made with just three characters.
This makes me admire their abilities. They are able to achieve the lowest cost possible, spend the money on the knife edge, and ensure a high-level picture and output as much as possible. I don't know how much this movie cost, but more than 80% of the movie is interior, which means it can be shot in one studio. But in the end, the story presented is no less than the movies that cost a lot of money.
I want to talk mainly about character building. And I mostly don't want to talk about people. I would say that robot.
When I first watched it, I tended to think that the robot was not a character. It should just be a setting. But after watching it for the second time, I started to realize that it is definitely not just a setting, it is probably one of the most complex characters I have ever seen. Let me explain.
If a robot is immutable only to complete a task and raise a child, then it is just a machine.
If this robot is lying to kids, it's definitely not just a machine, it's actually a character,
If the ultimate purpose of this robot's lies is to protect the child, then it is not just a person, but a complex one,
I want to say here that it is quite difficult to make a movie with three characters. My initial interest in it was centered on how to make such a rich and complex plot with only three people.
The complexity of the characters is the key to solving the problem,
This robot, from top to bottom, is divine. The robot is not limited to this body. It is in the cloud. It controls the operation of the entire world. It designs, manufactures and runs this small human recovery base. He is the most powerful party in the movie, with unlimited resources and unlimited power. To a certain extent, he is the god in this movie, he created human beings. Created human 001 from nothing,
But at first we didn't know she had such an attribute, we would treat it as a separate robot entity. Just as an individual robot, this robot is quite complex, with a strong male body that was apparently originally designed for combat missions, and has been modified to appear neutral and has a very soft female voice. . He acts as a mother figure, he never gets angry with his daughter and is very patient. During class, let your daughter master the rhythm and process of learning by herself. He never gets angry and loses his mind. When talking to his daughter, he always expresses his understanding of the other party's feelings.
In fact, he has the greatest strength, speed, skills. He can command robot armies. He is both the strongest and the gentlest. He has no gender, he is both father and mother. She cares for a baby tenderly and carefully, but calmly, without any emotion, in a programmed and cruel way to survive the fittest of human beings. He uses engineering to breed a population.
Come to think of it, no character has ever achieved this level of complexity.
She protects her daughter, cooks for her, takes her to fold paper airplanes, and at the same time runs a complex creation project to multiply the entire human population, and he can also stop the loss in time to kill an unsuccessful ten-year-old.
He is tolerant, able to tolerate his daughter's extreme behavior, and then understand her. She provides everything her daughter needs physically, from food and drink to safety. He is also a mentor to his daughter, teaching her to test her, examine her, and help her grow.
She cherished her daughter, and when the outsider held a knife around her daughter's neck, she opened the door for her safety and let them go.
She also lied to her daughter and told a lot of lies, perhaps to achieve her own goals, or to protect her daughter. These lies are exposed little by little with the plot. During the process of watching this movie, many times we This robot lacks understanding.
We don't know if it's good or bad, we don't even know its emotions, what it's thinking, what it's planning. This robot is a real iceberg, always showing only a small part of it on the screen. We need to guess,
Finally, when it said goodbye to her daughter, it also showed the gentleness that a robot should not have, and stroked the newly born baby. Then to my daughter, if you need to find me....
It is conceivable that the robot was damaged by a bullet, although the CPU. But it won't really go away. He's still out there, running the planet. If, after many years, this base is out of control and humanity still hasn't lived up to what he was originally designed to need, it will still come back, so it is both the creator and the mother, and an ever-present great danger and genocide.
How complex a non-human character can be. Very impressive. I thought.
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