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At the beginning of the film, "Last Season Review" took a full 4 minutes to help the audience recall the plot.
The male protagonist William has been indulging in Westworld for 30 years, and he is another "number one player".
The number one player finally became the boss of the game company, straight men come on!
The color of the hat is the symbol of good and evil, black hat or white hat, meaning good or evil?
The "Westworld Paradise" where people can kill, set fire, rape and loot at will is a lost paradise .
It is also a treasure of the wind and moon , allowing players to see their true self.
In the 4-minute plot review, the prostitute Maeve is also the focus.
As one of the first "awakened" artificial intelligences, Maeve, who was hanging up, went all the way to the control room of the park.
For AIs, the control room is the dark version of Eden, the place where they were created.
Maeve's bloodbath in the control room is a revolt and betrayal of the creator.
After the 21st century, the leaders of revolution and rebellion are all women.
Dolores awakens from a harmless little white rabbit to Joan of Arc who leads the liberal revolution.
Don't you see that it's another "Dragon Mother" character with the same style?
Both actresses are very good, and can easily navigate the reverse play from Little White Rabbit to Valkyrie.
Movies or dramas about artificial intelligence seem to think about problems beyond the current social reality, but in fact, the final consideration is still the problems of human beings themselves.
When artificial intelligence has the same consciousness, soul and free will as human beings.
How artificial intelligence gets along with people is, in essence, how people get along with people.
Parse the title password
It's HBO's convention to hide key plot information in the opening credits of each season .
There are several changes in the new title.
First up is the 3D-printed cow.
Enter with a close-up of the back of the cow's body, like the rising sun of the mountains in nature, but this world is man-made.
The bull rushing towards the camera is a strong attack symbol.
Like a wet patch in a petri dish infused with bacteria.
This season's scenes will feature water imagery.
The mother-baby symbol is also new.
The opening sequence of last season featured a man and a woman 3D printed people rolling the sheets.
Think of the baby as the result of rolling the sheets.
In a sci-fi drama where life no longer needs to be extended by traditional means, the symbol of mother and child can be regarded as a simple and meaningful symbol of human emotions.
The image source of this picture is the famous painting "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century.
This famous sketch shows the subtlety and harmony of the proportions of the human body.
In the 15th century, people who learned about the beauty of proportions could only draw people on paper.
In the future in the Westworld play, man has been able to create man perfectly.
To sum up, I believe that in this season, attack, combat, water, the original human emotions, and human creation will become the key words of the play.
Clarify the jumping timeline
Clarifying the "timeline" is the first key to unraveling the mystery of the plot .
The opening scene of the first episode of the second season was 35 years ago.
Arnold, the father of artificial intelligence, created Dolores, the first park's receptionist.
But after linking the scenes and looking at the lines carefully, you will find that this scene is actually a flashback of Bernard's subconscious when he was in a coma.
In the first season, Arnold was dead, and Ford built a robot Bernard that looked exactly like Arnold and placed it among the company's executives.
Bernard with the Arnold gene implanted actually has a part of Arnold's memory, but this part of the memory has not been fully awakened.
For the second scene, jump to the normal timeline of the story.
Two weeks after the massacre at the end of the first season.
Bernard woke up on the beach, and in connection with the above, Arnold's inexplicable lines can be understood as Bernard soaking in the sea water has the feeling of "flesh" (machine body) , but also hidden in the subconscious . with distant memories of Arnold.
Then, following the line clues and the characters' clothing matching, the timeline jumps again.
Remember the Dolores outfit that appears in the receptionist's memory, this is to allow you to match the narrative time later in the episode.
Whenever Dolores dresses like this, the narrative time is within those 14 days.
During this time, she led the robot rebel team to kill people in Westworld Paradise.
Why did she kill everyone in Westworld?
This was answered in the last episode of the first season.
It was the dying order of her creator, Arnold, implanted in her.
So, at this point, has Dolores awakened?
Or is it still fulfilling a certain command according to the script "with the illusion of some kind of awakening" ?
understand the meaning of dreams
This is a line Dolores often said in the first season.
I am in a dream.
In the second season, she began to give this concept to others.
How to understand the concept of "dream" in "Westworld"?
I think there are three meanings.
The first layer is the dream world, which refers to the false life in which artificial intelligences are treated as playthings and controlled.
The second layer, also refers to the "dream", the people who built the paradise - Ford's ideals, ambitions and selfish desires.
The third layer is the nightmare. They are all in the memory of an infinite horror cycle, but it is precisely this way of concluding painful memories, over and over again, accumulating the conditions for their awakening.
The maze in the first season is a symbol of the brain.
Infinite, terrifying, circular, and accompanied by painful memories are conditions for the formation of consciousness.
The birth of consciousness is not a pyramid-like ascending layer by layer, but a labyrinth.
In the loop, the process gradually goes from chaos to clarity.
The routine of deciphering the babble lines
The reason why this drama has caused crazy speculation and heated discussion among netizens around the world.
It is related to the line routine of screenwriter Jonathan Nolan.
For example, in the first scene, Arnold's conversation with Dolores.
The only informative thing is the word "coast".
But it is mixed with a lot of "some and no".
Constantly questioning the reliability of memory and making the memory ambiguous are the means of expression that stream-of-consciousness movies are keen to use.
This kind of dream is constantly interspersed, memory and reality are intertwined , and the storytelling method of memory is difficult to distinguish between true and false, which is not uncommon in movies.
Ingmar Bergman took the lead in using this literary "stream of consciousness" expression method into the narrative of the film, and "Wild Strawberry" was confirmed as the first stream of consciousness film.
In this sense, "Westworld" can also be regarded as a "stream-of-consciousness" American drama.
After the first season, we are already familiar with this line of dialogue.
"Dream babbling"-like lines are both a style of play and a means to deliberately confuse the audience.
Smoke bombs aside, we think these lines are the most informative of this conversation between William the Elder and Robert Ford Jr.
After a lot of detours, the meaning is only two sentences.
The first season revealed Arnold's secret, this season's Ford's secret.
Arnold's secret is in Paradise.
Is Ford's secret outside the park?
Make a bold prediction, we think, Ford should also be a robot.
In the final scene of the first episode of the second season, Bernard and the Human Rescue Squad arrive at the beach.
Time has jumped two weeks from his escape with the female executive.
What happened to Bernard when Valkyrie Dolores was killing people these past two weeks?
The beach full of corpses once again corresponds to the lines at the beginning of the play.
What kind of ocean is he talking about ?
Maybe these questions will be answered in a second episode.
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