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Luxurious floor-to-ceiling windows, you can enjoy delicious food at will, outside the window that changes with the mood of the seasons, a pet dog who understands your thoughts and can talk to you, and a service angel who is always on call.
How, sounds like the perfect definition of heaven.
Recently, the big company Amazon has released a brain-opening drama "Uploading New Life".
As soon as the male protagonist Nathan appeared on the stage, he obtained the above privileges that ordinary people sounded envious of at first.
This is a story that takes place in a future world where technology is extremely advanced, including bicycles and cars that can fully drive themselves; supermarket shelves will scan your physical condition and make dietary recommendations.
The background setting is that in order to pursue immortality, human beings have developed an upload system. Before death, everyone can choose to scan their body to enter "heaven". In heaven, every uploaded customer will have an exclusive customer service, commonly known as "angel".
Heaven provides a way for the living to live in peace with the dead. As long as someone is willing to pay for your entry into heaven, you can have eternal life.
In essence, Paradise is a profit-making organization, so it has various forms, such as the free Paradise that Nathan and his friends are going to develop, the Lake View Manor that already exists on the market, the casino that Nathan’s mother is looking for, and the Wilderness mode. Isometric cheap heaven and so on.
The story begins with the male protagonist Nathan choosing to upload himself into Lake View Manor because of a car accident.
When he first arrived, Nathan seemed out of place. He acted like a lonely little boy who would secretly cry under the covers. Fortunately, the "customer service" he met was an "angel" Nora who paid close attention to him and gradually developed a favorable impression of him.
So with Nora's help, Nathan gradually adapted to the environment and made two friends, Luke, a former sergeant, and Ivan, a young boy who wanted to grow up but was forever young.
Nathan also slowly learned the whole picture of Lake View Manor.
It turns out that there are not only five floors here, but the program is set so that everyone can only see the five floors up and down. On the bottom floor of Lake View Manor lives a group of poor tenants who can't afford to pay the expensive rent. There are poor men who are unable to upload their files and are incapacitated. There are little boys who can only watch free Harry Potter chapters forever. A little girl entertaining herself in a depressing corridor.
Watching all this, Nathan felt that he was finally awake from the state of doing nothing, and he suddenly realized that the meaning of his existence, in order to change the fate of these poor people, in order to help people who can't pay their bills.
The angelic and kind Nathan is of course more charming and makes Nora even more intoxicated.
And Nora's side is more complicated. On the one hand, he has to break the rules and talk about a sweet love with the "upload object" he takes care of; on the other hand, he has to take care of his seriously ill father and deal with the annoying female boss in reality. And Nora has to watch Nathan and his girlfriend Ingrid, who pays his bills, have a secret meeting over and over again, um, yes, the kind of secret meeting that requires sheets. He even had to go to the secret meeting site to take charge of Nathan's body repair work.
Speaking of which, for both Nora and Nathan, each other has become the only happiness in the world. Because of Nora, Nathan decided to stay at the Lakeview Manor peacefully, and also decided to break up with Ingrid and move to the bottom of the manor, the so-called 2G area. Because of Nathan, Nora began to look forward to every day's work, and even quietly copied Nathan's memory home. She also rejected the date who had a crush on her in real life and chose Nathan, who had become an "uploader". .
It is also because of Nathan's concern and concern that Nora discovered the real Nathan and the doubts behind Nathan's car accident. The real Nathan is not the one in Lakeview Manor who knows how to cherish and respect, and pity the weak angel Nathan. On the contrary, the real Nathan betrayed his friend and business partner for money, and chose Ingrid for money. He is a conceited and money-oriented bastard. Of course, his starting point is to live a good life for his family.
After discovering all this, Nora was very sad and began to hesitate about this relationship, but a distress in real life made her see her heart clearly, so the brave Nora decided to follow her heart and choose Nathan .
As for Nathan's death, it has always been a major attraction of the show, and it can also be regarded as adding a suspense factor to the plot. The first to wonder about Nathan's death was his cousin Fran, who began to investigate it all in earnest. At the same time, Nathan's neighbor, the "uploader", a multi-millionaire, also jokingly pointed out in a casual chat between the two that Nathan was only murdered because he touched the cake of a big business. It's just that Nathan never took it seriously. It wasn't until Nora secretly told him that his memory data had been quietly deleted that he began to pay attention to this matter.
It is also because in the process of investigating Nathan's murder, Nora was followed by someone with a heart. In order to help Nora, Nathan, who had moved to the ground floor of the manor, recklessly used 1.9G traffic on the first day, using his skills as a coder. The killer was easily trapped in an elevator and mechanically destroyed, leaving an elevator of blood and a terrified crowd.
The story ends when Nora confesses but can't wait for Nathan's response, and is angry with the spare tire man; Nathan is permanently fixed in the room on the ground floor of the manor, and Ingrid who chooses to upload himself to accompany Nathan To Nathan who has no traffic.
The screen stops abruptly here.
If the story ends here, it does leave a lot of suspense.
The biggest suspense is whose cheese Nathan touched so that he ended up being murdered at the height of his life.
Surrounding Nathan's murder, and the poor cousin Fran who disappeared silently, the smart and keen Fran, who had already followed the clues to find out everything, but fell into the river in an accident and whose whereabouts are unknown. No one seems to be paying attention to Fran's disappearance, and I hope the writers will make up for this line in the second season. And who was the killer who tracked Nora and was tackled in the elevator by the coder Nathan? What role did Ingrid's father play in this incident? Are there any other hidden stories between Nathan and his friends?
And Nathan and Nora, the two little sweethearts, have just begun and ended at such a misunderstood crossroads, which is really unpleasant.
I have to feel that Dachang is a Dachang, and the TV settings produced are very fresh, which not only meets people's requirements for the freshness of the story, but also maintains the lightheartedness of the comedy with handsome men and beautiful women and old-fashioned storylines. And there is a deep satire of modern society hidden behind this kind of fun, which can be said to well explore the human nature story behind it.
The biggest irony is that people not only have distinctions between high and low in life, but also continue this inescapable class attribute when they die. Only the powerful and powerful can pay the bills that Diqi uploads to a paradise like Lake View Manor. Those without money can only choose a roadside pheasant store. Maybe the technology is not developed at all and the facilities are not perfect at all. More people can't even reach the threshold, they can only choose to die forever and live in people's memory forever. When the last person who remembers them is gone, they will disappear forever, leaving no trace at all. (Inexplicably, it overlaps with the setting of "Dream Hunting Travel Notes").
Scanning into the Lakeview Manor is only the first step. The same bills need to be paid every month in the future, and in order to live more comfortably in the "hotel" of the manor, for example, if you want to eat snacks, you want to buy a living person's Feelings (cold, sneezing) and so on, you also have to pay extra bills. For those AI machine service people, if you live in a high-rise, he is willing to listen to you with a smile, and even willing to hold a urinal for you. If you live on the ground floor of the manor, the robot service person will change his face in an instant, let alone provide various services.
The gap between the rich and the poor is so stark. This is true in the world of living people, and even more so in the world of "uploaded people". The ants-like crowd at the bottom can't even live like a person, not to mention the spiritual needs of reading and watching the scenery. As for those who live in the upper floors, they will have a large garden when they open the door, and enjoy privately ordered services at all times. They even sent someone to hunt a rhino in the real world in order to eat top rhino meat. The rich enjoy everything in their own way, and no one tries to care about their lower-class neighbors. At least in the play, only the male protagonist Nathan showed his willingness to help the 2G crowd. Maybe everyone tacitly agrees that being rich is not benevolent. Thinking of entrepreneurs who frequently donate hundreds of millions of dollars to public welfare in reality, they feel ironic.
The second irony is that in modern life, privacy is an absolute luxury. The staff at Lake View Manor in the show can observe their client's "uploader" from all angles, even if the client has turned on privacy mode. Moreover, modern people’s lives are also full of various artificial intelligences that can accurately scan your body, and even issue some secret and kind reminders to your body in public. Imagine that one day in the future, when you are hesitating on the shelf in xx supermarket, a female robot voice above your head kindly reminds you that because of your severe constipation recently, please buy more cellulose-rich vegetables such as celery and leeks. Do you feel super embarrassed. Not to mention that when you are shopping for clothes, the robot kindly reminds you of your measurements and recommended sizes. Please, I can fit the S size, why must I be reminded to buy the M size? It's a completely convenient and terrifying world.
Artificial intelligence also brings a problem. In the space of immortality, "uploading people" have become so bored that they spend money on sneezing services to experience the feeling of living people. It can be seen that no matter how advanced the technology is, after all, it is better to be a pure and natural person. I don’t believe that there is any artificial intelligence that can completely replace the human being created by the creator’s pool of power.
In fact, think about it carefully, this system is still very scary, whoever pays the bills for you is the complete financial master. Your joys, sorrows, and joys are all in her/his hands. If you can't follow his wishes, the small amount will be reduced, and the big one will face the risk of crashing at any time.
It seems that only parents love their children, and children's love for their parents is unconditional, see little Ivan's mother pays bills without regrets and comforts her children in cloud video; Nora wants to apply for a loan to be a father even though she is poor Fight for the opportunity to upload people. Even in the poorer homes, this love is conditional and limited, see Nathan's mother can't pay $30 for the only backup file of her son's memory to buy a box.
There are two cannon fodder behind Nathan and Nora's sweet love, Nathan's ex-girlfriend Ingrid, and Nora's spare tire. I don't have a deep impression of the spare tire. After all, he didn't show anything special, but as he was attracted to Nora, this person became a little attractive.
Ingrid is different. Her image has undergone a relatively big change. As soon as she appeared, she was the perfect girlfriend. The wire rod was beautiful and smooth, her family background was good, and her personality was gentle. She was simply a 100-point girlfriend. Ingrid's shortcomings begin to emerge one by one as Nathan goes from being a living person to being the "uploader" of Lakeview Manor. She tried to turn Nathan into her own doll and figurative accessory, Nathan just had to appear properly and play the perfect boyfriend, he didn't need a mind of his own, he didn't need a mind at all, he wasn't even Allow for extra thinking.
Even at Nathan's funeral, Ingrid went so far as to deliver speeches about other people, while turning a blind eye to Nathan, the protagonist of the story. It even once carried out intimate activities behind Nathan and Nathan's friends. So far, Ingrid is completely a spoiled, willful and arrogant girl from a rich family.
In the end, this is just a little girl whose father doesn't care about her mother, doesn't love her sister and doesn't care. When she encounters a Nathan, she slams into it without any self. She doesn't know how to love, so her performance is to be guilt. Sen pays expensive monthly bills, puts on nasty huggies for Nathan, raises his pocket money limit to save Nathan, chases thieves and jumps into pools without image for copies of Nathan's memories, and even In order for Nathan to choose to disobey his father's orders, he finally uploaded himself to accompany Nathan. This poor girl, completely reversed my disgust for her, and made me look forward to her next performance.
Speaking of this, I found that the two leading actors were not introduced. The male protagonist Nathan is too much like Tom when he was young, and the female protagonist Nora is very similar to Luca, who is still full of collagen in "The Battle of the Bone". So the two little cuties are too sweet, and they happen to be the looks I like. So can't wait to see season two.
Pray that the epidemic will pass as soon as possible and everything will return to normal as soon as possible.
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