Tickets for the premiere given by the company. The animation effect is still good. I came back and checked it, and it turned out to be a foreign production team. Then let's talk about the content. I think the narrative level is really lacking.
When watching this, I always think of Dabai's "Super Marines" and "Wall-E". I came back and quickly re-flashed the two. I think it is more interesting to compare them with Dabai.
Dabai is a highly-reputed and moving animation in Disney's works. From the connotation point of view, the interesting thing about it is that the creator did not endow Dabai with human consciousness and emotion like artificial intelligence. You will find that Dabai is so warm but it follows the design of the developer, such as its soft shape, such as it is Creation has only one purpose - to heal human beings, both physically and emotionally. Its behavior is largely within the scope of program instructions, and it's good for the protagonist simply because the program is designed that way. But why is it so touching? Because, the essence of this animation is to talk about the emotions of people. After the sudden death of his elder brother, Da Bai is the incarnation of a gentle and kind elder brother. The little protagonist's thoughts on his elder brother are fulfilled in a series of interactions and cooperation with Da Bai. Da Bai's company gradually makes up for the great regret brought by the separation of life and death. It can not only heal the broken skin, but also fill the huge wound in the heart after losing a loved one. This is about the simplest human emotions, so it is easy to resonate. The cartoon just uses the setting of robots to create a dream for the audience that we cannot experience in reality.
The concept of the future machine city is artificial intelligence, which tells the story of a series of warm interactions and companionship between robots with human emotions and consciousness and human little girls. It tries to show that the robot is committed, loyal, willing to "sacrifice" itself, and is the most loyal friend of human beings (ah, how does it feel to be talking about a dog). But the impressions of the people are superficial, not directly hitting people's hearts.
I think this kind of emotional expression is not moving enough. There are several aspects.
One is that 7723 is too human-like. He understands the importance of memory, knows which memories are precious, and in a crisis, he knows how to initialize himself and give up memory, which is highly artificial intelligence. But the story lacks a narrative about artificial intelligence, and it is taken for granted that the artificial intelligence of robots is common sense in the minds of the audience.
In fact, the Doctor, King of War, and Boss Pang are all opportunities to foreshadow 7723, but the stories are too sloppy. What kind of person is Boss Pang? Why was the King of War designed, why was it attacked, and what purpose did the Doctor create 7723? There can also be a poignant story between Boss Pang and the doctor, which can further strengthen the consciousness of 7723 points by shaping the doctor. The so-called technology-neutral theory, but the inventor of technology is not neutral. The machine itself will carry the spirit and soul of the designer.
Here is a little bit of my brainstorming☟
"For example, Boss Pang and the doctor used to be very close and like-minded, but Boss Pang went into trouble and designed a battle king with fighting power that would be harmful to humans. Dr. Duojia's persuasion was unsuccessful, and he could only secretly design 7723, which has combat power and can protect human beings wholeheartedly. Wouldn't it make you a little sadder when the Doctor is finally killed because he's more plump? This also makes it easier to understand why 7723 is so good for wheat, because he was created to protect human beings unconditionally, which carries the Doctor's deepest concern for human beings. (I suspect the original might have these additions, but the script cut corners)”
Furthermore, the damage to 7723's memory hard drive led to a conflict between his precious memory and weapons and equipment, as well as a conflict where deleting weapons and equipment could not protect Mai and gave up his memory. For a robot, conflicts and contradictions are not that big, because losing weapons or losing memory is not a sacrifice for a robot. He is a robot, and you cannot feel his pain.
Continue to brainstorm ☟
"You think, I replaced 7723 with a person: the brain is damaged, I can only delete part of the memory every day to start a new day, until finally he had to delete the part of the brain that controls his walking, and exchanged the paralysis for a new one with his lover. Memory continues. Is this conflict bigger and more moving? Because losing a certain physiological function is a very big sacrifice for people, especially memory, it is the root of why I am who I am. As human beings, we can substitute ourselves to resonate, but we cannot substitute ourselves into 7723's body to resonate. 』
Finally, there is the setting of wheat, and her stubbornness and loneliness also lack the foreshadowing, which makes it difficult for the audience to sympathize with her. Why she hates robots is because her mother put her feelings into robots and left her out (under-characterized). Did her father abandon their mother and daughter? It's unclear. The bad girls in the school bully her, which is also inexplicable and a little blunt. I think it can be richer in the depiction of wheat. Brain tonic +1☟
"The father abandoned their mother and daughter, and Mai no longer believes that one person's love for another person can be loyal and unchanging since childhood. In addition, because of her sadness, her mother also pinned her emotions on the machine to avoid pain. She felt like she was abandoned by everyone. Until it encounters 7723, once the robot has chosen a master, it will not change hands again. Wheat found something like a sense of belonging in 7723. And she needs to clear up the quarrel between her and her mother, and 7723 can help create some interactions to enrich her mother's character. It also makes wheat learn to love is complicated in the interaction with her mother, and love also needs understanding. You can even not let 7723 choose to initialize, but let Mai make such a choice, in order to save her mother in a crisis. 』
Therefore, moving stories often express the simplest emotions that we will experience in our lives. What a story can do is to use various creative forms to create a moving dream for the audience that reality cannot experience.
I wrote so much out of my love for domestic films~ I hope there will be more and more good and moving stories~
Finally, I recommend a movie about artificial intelligence, which deeply explores the ethical issues after robots generate human emotions, which is quite touching - Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence". ✌️
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