The initial setting is also worthy of scrutiny: due to the rapid advancement of genetic technology, humans can already achieve immortality physiologically. However, the population explosion that will inevitably result in insufficient resources can only be solved by limiting the life span. This is in line with science and technology's classic concern about the alienation of human nature, and it is more pathetic than the practice of restricting fertility in other novels. The latter is like sterilizing stray cats. The former is to raise chickens that can lay eggs and kill them to save resources.
Of course, reality metaphors are indispensable. Of course, the slum dwellers who are busy with their livelihood every day are our lovely working people proletariat. They are squeezed by the vampires of New Greenwich, and they use their own labor to support the capitalists. Work. As the awakened proletariat, Will stepped forward and broke the shackles on himself and others. Taking into account the release time, I don't know how many people feel resentment towards the greedy 1% after watching this movie and go straight to Wall Street. Of course, Will also has a shocking sentence: "How can steal something that has been stolen?" Apparently some passionate young people in London were also inspired by it. They consciously took to the streets and developed stealing into stealing, and they succeeded in realizing it. Anglicization of revolutionary theory.
Of course, as a society in the future, although the overall moral level of the society has declined significantly, the nobility of individual morality is still staggering. In the face of such oppression, the working people have no complaints. Before the male and female robbers appeared, everyone went on the streets and never thought about doing something bad to rob or robbery. With reference to the difficulty of the robbery of these two people, the majority of the people cannot do it or do it. Of course, it may also be that IQ is not enough. This is evidenced by Will’s mother: I have lived to the point where the ticket price has risen and I am dead. I still spend money to rent such a good house, and I still rent it. We graduated from Fudan University here. . Still not really hard, right? I wonder if this level of morality and IQ has been set during genetic modification? Then Will must be genetically mutated.
So let the ruling class relax its vigilance, and finally the working people can freely enter the noble time zone with the money. Where is the state's violent machinery for this kind of behavior that clearly disrupts social hierarchy? Well, we are all civilized people and we speak the rule of law, so can't you control prices? Raising the customs fee will not be over...
But having said that, it is very unwise for them to go to New Greenwich. Because the prices in the slums are really much lower. After the price of coffee is raised, it is 4 minutes for a cup, and a better lunch is 30 minutes. Based on this, about one minute is equivalent to one US dollar. Let's take a look at the prices in New Greenwich, the standard room of a high-end hotel: 2 months. Converted into minutes is 86,400, which is US$86,400. With the same algorithm, 50 years of sports car is equivalent to US$26.28 million. Working people, relying on the one or two years given to you, you will not be able to live there.
Of course, there are too many such loopholes. For example, the map is obviously the United States, and the slums are basically the entire central part (according to my junior high school geography knowledge, it is the dairy and livestock area of the United States, which is a good metaphor), but they drive Traveling is a matter of minutes. It suddenly became a playhouse.
So although there is such a cool setting, the film does not explore the interest of advanced goods such as economic, social philosophy. Aside from the science fiction skin, the story is about a dick who suddenly received a huge sum of money, then entered the upper class, captured the hearts of rich and beautiful women, and made her resolutely abandon the reactionary family and wander about with our protagonist. Don't worry about why children from poor families can fight so well, then use guns, then drive so hard. This is the case in YY novels.
So this film, on the one hand, makes you go to the streets to denounce unfairness, and on the other hand, it makes you YY. I have to say that I really understand how Diaosi lives.
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