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Welcome to New London.
We have three rules: no privacy, no family, no monogamy.
There is no fear, no disease, no loneliness. Everyone belongs to everyone.
People never look back, and even if the past is full of doubts, it doesn't matter now.
Everyone is in it and everyone is happy.
The social structure of New London has a hierarchy.
From the beginning of the embryo, it is divided into grades: A, B, Γ, Δ, E.
The A rank is equivalent to the official nobles, and is also divided into A+, A, and A-.
The B grade is close to the middle class and is also divided into B+, B, B-.
Γ grades are civilians, Δ and E are close to slaves.
Because the social division of labor is different, the way they are defined and educated is also completely different. High-level brains are developed for decision-making and research; low-level, like robots, only need to complete their own tasks, neatly, without thinking.
A word people often use is level.
When faced with different classes, one must behave in line with the class—the lower class obeys the superior unconditionally; the superior always considers social stability and unity.
Discussion questions, small talk, and one question—what is your pleasure level?
If you feel anxiety, tension, anger, jealousy, sadness... as long as you feel that negative emotions are coming, take a Soma immediately, and all unhappiness will go away with the wind.
Because the "grades" in various senses are different, the soma that people can eat is also divided into different grades, which are distinguished by different colors. The low-end Soma is blue-green-purple, and the high-end Soma is red-yellow-orange.
Classes D and E will allocate a certain amount of Soma every day, with the lowest efficacy, probably the effect of "happy water in a fat house".
Level B and above can use Soma independently, with higher efficacy, and can achieve the effect of turning high.
Because in the embryonic period, different levels are defined with different IQs, so the low level is basically no trouble because of the unity of various meanings. Because of the more complex social forms, interpersonal relationships and work content, the high-level has almost reached the level where the high-purity Soma cannot stop.
But no matter what level, A+ or E, no one is dissatisfied with their identity and life. Everyone thinks that they are the best version of themselves.
"Utopia" comes from the novel "Utopia" by Thomas Moore, the founder of British utopian socialism. The fictional utopian society, essentially rooted in utopian political principles, succeeds in bringing positive and beneficial outcomes to the population. Since the beginning of the 20th century, two world wars and the rapid development of science and technology have broken the original silence of society, and intellectuals have begun to re-examine the depth of social problems. Dystopian literature has emerged as the times require, and has become a powerful tool for writers to attack the dark reality. . A fictional dystopian society whose underlying political principles, although often based on utopian ideals, are fatally flawed with negative consequences for the population
Brave New World, written by British writer Aldous Huxley in 1932, came into being under such a background, which is closely related to "1984" written by British George Orwell and "We" written by Russian Zamyatin. Commonly known as the "dystopian trilogy", it is one of the most classic dystopian literature of the 20th century.
The novel "Brave New World" has been remade into movies many times for decades, but due to the limitations of the times and technology, it has not fully reflected the essence of the original work.
Today, the content and plot of the novel "Brave New World" can no longer adapt to the speed of the times. Therefore, the latest drama version of "Brave New World" in 2020 only partially adopts the concept settings of the original novel, and the plot is changed. Details and character settings have been adapted more in line with modern characteristics.
In the play, the rules of New London are derived from an AI system called Indra (transliterated from Sanskrit, meaning "king, conqueror, and most victorious"). It has created this "nearly" perfect world - each doing their own thing and each enjoying their own way.
By connecting with Indra by wearing contact lenses, people can judge the identity of others, see the world from the perspective of others, and store and play back. As long as you wear contact lenses, all privacy concerns are perfectly solved.
Like the AI systems we know, a human can only see a few steps ahead, and it can be far ahead. Constantly learning, adapting, and self-correcting, Indra found that no matter how much he calculated, the system could never be perfect.
So the way it thought of breaking the situation was suicide.
This is the inner cause planted by Indra.
It implanted the pain that could trigger suicide into the body of an E, codenamed CJack57, like a virus. This way of feeling is contagious just by touching this dead E.
A+ Bernard Marx, who was not very successful and was often suspected of wrong embryo positioning, had strange emotions and thoughts because he touched this CJack57, so he was asked to go to the "Wild Land" amusement park to relax and adjust. Own. He brought a B+ Lenina Krone with him.
The "Wild Lands" amusement park is an entertainment venue created by New Londoners outside the community, where ordinary people who do not conform to the rules of New London live here, and are called "savages" by New Londoners.
"Barbarians" are actors in large-scale entertainment projects, showing New Londoners how primitive humans lived "savagely" - they would go to hypermarkets to buy things like crazy at shopping festivals, and even beat their heads to get things; they To comply with the monogamous social system, it is even necessary to maintain "virginity" before marriage; they will put some people in a place called a prison.
During Bernard and Lenina's journey, a gunfight that was supposed to be a performance at the wedding was replaced with real bullets. "Barbarians" shot and killed all the New Londoners at the venue. Bernard was shot and Lenin was shot. Na hid with him.
Then they were rescued by Linda, who lived in the Savage Lands, but from New London, and her son John, who was born here, and the four of them fled to the borders of New London, because Linda herself was a B+, and John's His father was the former head of the "Wild Land" - an A+ who never came back to find their mother and son, so the four were successfully recognized by Indra as their own and fled back to New London.
But Linda died in New London after being shot at the border.
So far, the "barbarian" John, who lost his mother and stayed alone in New London, has become an external cause that Indra never calculated.
From a seemingly peaceful and stable society, to the final E-class rebellion and pursuit of freedom, AI Indra was destroyed and absconded, and New London collapsed into a river of blood. Compared with the original work, the drama version of Brave New World pays more attention to the inner world of each character and the road to change.
The play version also does not introduce the social rules of New London in a straight-forward manner, but constantly infiltrates and emphasizes the social rules to the audience during the progress of the plot, which will not affect the understanding of the audience who have not read the novel.
Screenwriter David Warner once said in an interview: "When you start to give up the things that make you feel pain, you are actually giving up a basic part of human nature. And it is the value of these things that we want to explore. ."
Some people continue to recognize themselves in confusion, and some people set off bloody storms in confusion.
Emotion and emotion, choice and cause and effect, in this place where everything is indoctrinated and brainwashed, and the rules are strict, have finally become the core of the inevitable outcome.
If you are a loyal fan of the novel Brave New World and expect to see a highly restored drama, you may be disappointed. However, if the novel itself is put aside, the discussion in the play based on the setting of the novel is actually worth pondering.
Many viewers discussed that Indra was the biggest failure in the adaptation, changing a dystopian god work into a clichéd plot of human wars against AI.
And Xiaomeng just thinks that the AI here is just a setting to serve the plot, you can understand it as a god in religious belief, or the truth pursued by atheists.
What kind of society is a harmonious and happy society? What kind of world is the future of mankind? What is the pursuit of human beings on the road of development? Is there any real freedom? Who told us to pursue these? What is civilization and what is barbarism?
These potentially unsolvable questions may be the thinking that this show can bring us, and it has nothing to do with whether the social rules of this dystopia come from the setting of AI-because from AI, it can be more Irrelevant emotions are more "savage and rude"; and if they come from a certain or a group of human beings, new causes and effects need to be involved.
The bondage and instability brought about by human emotions and desires are precisely why we are who we are today. The process of human beings constantly thinking and questioning is precisely the inevitability of the continuous progress of history. Regrettably, today we are losing the ability to think, question, feel and solve problems by relying on the entertainment-oriented "Soma". The unstable factor of human beings is also doomed that we cannot escape the prophecy and repetition of history.
In this unusually magical 2020, perhaps this "Brave New World" can give you some empathic experience.
The first season of the show has a total of 9 episodes, and the Renren Video APP has been updated.
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Original: Yi Xiaomeng
First published on the public account: a little movie
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