After watching the recently popular science fiction drama "Upload". What many people may not realize is that this may be the first film and television work to seriously discuss immortality. Some people must say, no, immortality is a very common theme. Yes, there are movies with this theme. I remember watching a domestic sci-fi movie when I was a child. It was a story about an elderly rich man who regularly transfuses young people with blood in order to stay young. "This Man From Earth" is my favorite movie about immortality. Students who haven't seen it can go and watch it. In addition, there are "Time Planning Bureau" and so on. It's just that "Upload" is a little bit special, and its method of achieving immortality is consciousness uploading. The most famous movie uploaded by consciousness is Johnny Depp's "Transcendental Hacker". It is beautiful and has a touching ending. I recommend it to students who have not seen it. There is also a popular American drama "Copy" in the past two years, which is also a means to achieve immortality by constantly replacing the body with the backup of consciousness. In the past, people may think that the physical immortality is more realistic, and the upload of consciousness is too far away. But there are two things this year that make me feel that consciousness uploading is suddenly a lot closer to us. One is that Musk is studying the brain-computer interface, and the other is that I just saw a real-time game screen of the PS5. The computer-rendered screen can be said to be infinitely close to reality. Putting these two things together is terrifying. Upload consciousness to the computer or even the Internet. In theory, as long as there is no power supply, our consciousness can exist forever. Okay, let's go back to "Upload". Why do I say this is the first film and television work that seriously discusses immortality? Because the previous works have been avoiding two questions, one is what the world in which consciousness exists alone, and the other is the ethical issues involved in immortality. These two issues are too big and too important. The second question, in particular, can be said to overturn many of the laws and rules on which the world today depends. I have always believed that death is the greatest fairness. No matter how successful or rich a person is, he will eventually die. This is the iron law since the birth of life. Because of death, people at the bottom can endure this life, religion has the soil to survive, and the world can maintain a generally stable operation despite so many injustices. You look at the superheroes in Marvel, but in the end they are inevitably old and dead. Wolverine, Captain America, Black Widow... No matter how powerful the Marvel universe is, it does not dare to touch the thread of immortality easily, because It wants to ensure the existence of a universal rule that most people can understand. There are only some second-tier sci-fi works that discuss immortality, and under the cloak of immortality, these works are still conventional love and suspense themes, and the basic rules of their world are also based on Of course following the old custom that people would die. From this point of view, "Upload" is the first film and television work that begins to discuss what the world will be like after death and what will happen to people if they don't die. For example, one of the things that touched me the most in the play was that the heroine's father was reluctant to accept the uploading service, because he firmly believed that there was heaven, and his deceased wife who died young would be waiting for him in heaven. If he chooses to upload his consciousness, it means that he cannot go to heaven to meet his deceased wife, which is a betrayal of his deceased wife. And the interaction between the dead male protagonist and his ex-wife (I don't know if the ex-wife is suitable), the yin and yang interaction of the dead 8-year-old child, seeing his grown-up partner and his own confusion, etc., are all opening their minds At the same time, it hits the soft spot in our hearts, so there will be no spoilers here. The biggest breakthrough of "Upload" is to begin to explore the new changes in family, friendship and love in the context of immortality. Its description of the world in which consciousness is uploaded is responsible for providing the most intensive laughs: the rich enjoy lake-view villas, while the poor who can’t afford traffic don’t even deserve windows, and even those who don’t have money at the end of the month don’t even have a window. The chicks are gone. In order to experience the real world after death, it costs money to get a cold Pause and tease him to get him back up so that their date can continue... It's a pity that "Upload" didn't go deep enough, and after the amazing first few episodes, it quickly became mediocre and turned into a movie An ordinary work of dog blood love and conspiracy theory. I'm disappointed because the appetite has been whetted: what moral dilemmas are there for immortality? How to consistently guarantee the cost of surviving in the afterlife? Why wouldn't a profession such as a programmer continue to work in the afterlife? Is it necessary for husband and wife to remain faithful even if one person dies first? What are the other aspects of immortality's impact on social ethics? These questions can only be expected to be answered in the second season.
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