Does a person have a soul after death? Or is it a hundred years old and disappears completely?
Perhaps, we will no longer struggle with this issue in the future, and technology will help us achieve "eternal life".
Recently, there is a new American drama called "Uploading the New Life", which talks about the future when human beings die, they can upload their memory and consciousness to the cloud to achieve "soul immortality".
Your happiest time may come after death.
In that virtual world, we can still perceive, think, and communicate with living people in the real world.
Even more exaggerated is that "dead people" and living people can continue to fall in love, and even have sex.
The brain is so open!
The story takes place in 2033, and artificial intelligence has penetrated into every aspect of human life.
The physical phone became an antique, and the thumb and forefinger opened, which was the phone screen.
Autopilot has also been fully realized. You can do whatever you want in the car, work, watch the news... Of course, you can still have sex, human nature, too human!
Police law enforcement, "ride" drones to the scene;
In supermarkets, robots replace cashiers;
And the most amazing setting is that people who are seriously ill have another choice besides suffering and waiting to be cured:
End life, write the brain into the hard drive, hand it over to the company operating virtual reality, upload consciousness, and realize "new life".
A lifetime of memories will be turned into folders on the computer.
In the cloud, the data fragments extracted from the deceased's brain will reconstitute his body and memory. When we open our eyes, we will "discover" that we are still alive, and everything in front of us is the same as the real thing:
Green grass and safflower, clear water and blue sky...
We can even attend our own funerals, stand on both sides of the screen with our living relatives, and communicate our feelings.
And the living can also wear special equipment to the cloud, gather with the dead, and do everything that can be done in the real world.
Clouds are the legendary heaven!
However, in heaven and on earth, there is no free lunch.
Everything the dead enjoy here is paid for by the living (your relatives and friends).
Rich people can still buy luxury houses and enjoy star-rated hotel services after uploading.
People from ordinary families can only live in the bottom world with only 2G traffic per month.
The conditions there are harsh, the deceased cannot be emotionally disturbed, cannot think, and can do almost nothing.
Otherwise, the traffic will be quickly exhausted, the dead will enter a frozen state, and they will not be able to "survive" until the next month.
Think about this situation, you are chatting with someone, and suddenly you run out of traffic, so you become a pale white sculpture, motionless... It's hard to laugh or cry.
The screenwriter used a comedy presentation method to metaphorize the real society, and also told us the other side of "technology changes the world":
Even if technology becomes more and more developed, even if consciousness is immortalized, the gap between rich and poor and class division will continue and become larger.
From "Parasite" to "Uploading New Life", "Villa" and "Basement" will always exist.
So, how to change fate?
Of course, it's personal struggle, or, like Nathan, the film's hero, is "lucky" enough.
Although he was a prostitute programmer and didn't have much savings, his girlfriend happened to be Bai Fumei.
After a car accident, Nathan's consciousness is uploaded, and he lives in the highest-end lake-view room.
After his death, he achieved a class leap.
In the virtual paradise, Nathan has a 24-hour online one-to-one angel customer service, and even the pet dog is played by a professional psychological consultant, chatting with him at any time and unraveling the knot...
The virtual body, as perceptible as the real body, will enjoy it. Pleasure and pleasure are seamlessly transmitted to the brain, and desires are completely satisfied.
Everything is perfect.
However, within two days, Nathan was tired of living.
Everything is measured on time, the waiter is never lazy, never complains, and even the procedure for urination is written accurately, standing a few meters away or urinating at an angle, the urine will enter the urinal exactly...
Perfect, but absurd.
A life scene that never goes wrong, loses human warmth, and Nathan becomes a walking code that can only act within a set range.
He seems to be benevolent, but he actually lives in the "Trumen world".
He can't use his will, what to buy and what to do depends on Bai Fumei's girlfriend.
- If she refuses to pay, there is absolutely nothing he can do. If she wanted to wipe him out of Brave New World, he could only accept it.
Nathan is bored and lonely, and it's a bit like the digital world we live in today.
We are enjoying the change of the Internet to our lives, and we have obtained great convenience, unprecedented amount of information, and all kinds of wonderful life...
At the same time, the feeling of having the world by clicking to pay, the time wasted by electronic products and APPs, the endless recharging and changing of equipment for games, and the consumption habits and search habits recorded by various big data, and It's like dragging us into a black hole manipulated by capital and technology.
Sometimes we can't tell whether we are the users of technology companies, or whether we are invisibly becoming the data and products that technology companies use to make profits.
Nathan was so depressed that he wanted to commit suicide at one point, but luckily, he met Nora.
Nora is Nathan's exclusive angel customer service, an employee of the cloud company, and a living person.
Nora often plays cards out of the way. She will give her middle finger to the access control before entering the company, she will spoof hairstyles when writing body codes to clients, and she will steal the boss's coffee to drink by herself...
Nora is lonely too, and in the real world, her date is always boring.
Nathan, though virtual, is not like everyone else.
He is handsome, kind, and understanding.
Nora sinks into it unknowingly, breaking the taboo that "angels can't fall in love with clients."
Nathan also loves the straightforward and real Nora, and in the process of contacting her, he slowly retrieved his memory that was deleted by the system.
His death, most likely, was a murder...
For Nora, Nathan even resolutely broke up with Bai Fumei's girlfriend.
This means that he lost financial support, packed up and left, and had to move into the bottom world of 2G traffic.
Although the naughty Nora runs counter to the "professionalism" that the cloud company believes in, she has become the brilliance of the show's humanity.
She is the reflection and resistance of people to the progress of science and technology.
It is the embodiment of "love" and the highest manifestation of human nature.
——In the end, we always have to rely on love to melt everything and change everything.
Both "Uploading New Life" and "Black Mirror" are suspenseful sci-fi films, but unlike "Black Mirror", it focuses on love and is a comedy, which is refreshing.
The most interesting character in the whole play is Nathan's girlfriend Bai Fumei, who often does strange things and is full of memes. She is arrogant and a control freak, but she is willing to give everything for her lover, which makes people hate and love.
The elements of sci-fi suspense, romance, and comedy can be perfectly integrated, because there is a great god in the screenwriter and director: Craig Daniels, who has been nominated for 20 Emmy Awards and won 4 times.
You may not have heard his name, but you must have seen his work.
Craig is the core creator of the American version of "The Office" and has been involved in the screenwriting work of the classic animation "The Simpsons" since 1993.
This year, screenwriters have stabilized, especially comedy screenwriters. Nine times out of ten, they are good plays.
In "Uploading Freshman", Craig's subtle dark humor and comedy skills expose human nature to the future world constructed by data.
The heavy propositions raised by classic sci-fi dramas in the past have become very easy in this drama, but they are not superficial at all.
While laughing and being warmed by love, we were also able to glimpse the cruel truth about data privacy, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the evil of technology...
Although it is not known whether "immortality on the cloud" can be realized, it is certain that the insecurity brought by technology to human beings will exist for a long time in our future life.
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