This year, Amazon's original show, "Upload," has been surprisingly good. The most brain-opening point in the play is that humans can now transfer their consciousness to the electronic paradise, which also means that humans can now achieve electronic "immortality".
But there is a fragment in the play that tells the story of a rich man who spent 4 billion dollars to buy the first place to download his body back, but he failed and caused his consciousness to disappear. Logically speaking, if the human consciousness can be uploaded to the server, then why not make a backup, just in case, a billionaire to be a guinea pig is also magical, why not make sure that it can be successful before doing it of. There are a lot of grooves in this place, and I can't say anything, so I won't pursue it. After all, it's the first season. The screenwriter may want to foreshadow something, it can be the conspiracy of the company that uploaded it, or it can be a hint that the male pig's feet still have a chance to return to the real world.
Probably the story is about a poor genius programmer who wrote a piece of awesome code, and then the father of his rich second-generation girlfriend wanted to buy his company, but his partner disagreed and sold it to another a company. The male pig's feet secretly sold this awesome code to the future father-in-law at a high price, but the future father-in-law secretly killed the male pig's feet for unknown reasons. The male pig's foot came to this electronic paradise and started his new life. And then fell in love with his receptionist in heaven. There is a love that spans the real world and the virtual world. Yes, this is the story of a scumbag and a commercial spy. The male pig's foot is handsome, scumbag and smart, no wonder the rich second-generation girlfriend and receptionist love him to the death. The play adopts an interlude narrative method. It starts from the death of the male pig's foot in a car accident. The male protagonist loses his memory and forgets that he was a commercial spy, and then uses the help of the receptionist to retrieve his memory as a clue to advance. plot. It sounds complicated, but the whole show is actually very simple, intuitive, and fun to watch.
If you deviate from the setting of consciousness upload, it actually seems to be the story of those idol drama heroines who lost their memory and found themselves, changed it to a male perspective, and then added a sci-fi background. And for stories that use this kind of brain hole as a starting point, the European and American sides are usually based on exploring the existence of free will, such as the first season of Westworld. But the words of this drama are spending more pen and ink to describe the issue of the gap between the rich and the poor in this electronic paradise.
In this paradise, as long as you want, they can't give you without them. If you want, even your fart can be fragrant. Personally, I think the most ironic part of the plot is that the male pig's feet met a billionaire in the electronic paradise and often invited the male protagonist to eat and drink (the male protagonist's personal charm is so great that even the rich can be attracted). The irony of this rich man paying to make himself sick and then paying to sneeze. In the electronic paradise, everything needs money, and it happens that the male protagonist is a poor guy. The reason why the male protagonist can enter is because his girlfriend is a rich second-generation, so all the consumption of the male protagonist in it depends on the female protagonist, and then the female protagonist knows exactly what he does.
The brain hole of this show is very big, the world view is quite reasonable, and even adult suits (used to solve the physiological needs of the male protagonist and girlfriend) are designed. It still looks interesting and cool. Personally, I think the core of this drama is not to discuss the immortality of human beings if consciousness can be uploaded, or the philosophical question of how I can tell who I am if consciousness can be electronic. This drama actually discusses the real wealth gap, but it just puts a science fiction outer core on it. In the real world, there are still many things that cannot be directly measured by money, but in the electronic paradise in the play, everything can be measured by money, which is a more extreme society. In the play, when the male protagonist asks why he needs money for everything, someone else's sentence is capitalism, which is a silent satire of this society. There is a 2G room in the electronic paradise. If you can't afford the money, but you don't want to be disillusioned and truly die, you can only stay there. There is only 2G traffic every month, and you can only freeze it if you spend it all. Unable to move. In the end, in order to leave the rich second-generation girlfriend and complete the affair with the receptionist, the male protagonist finally chose to enter the 2G room. In the end, the male protagonist spent the month's traffic and could only be frozen there, which is really the highest level of irony.
The whole show is a stark satire of capitalism. The rich can do whatever they want, and the poor have no right to live.
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