A simple analysis of Demei, Hale, Xiaofan and William

Sophie 2022-10-31 12:16:05

Let's talk about the logic of Demei's original body first.

Demei herself observes the world as an alien, and what she upholds in her heart is the beauty of the world she saw when she was first created.

At the end of the first season, Demei woke up, full of anger over the power to choose her own future, and wanted real freedom.

In the third season, Demei came to the human world with anger in the park, but after coming to the human world, she came to a different conclusion from the perspective of outsiders.

First of all, the fate of human beings should not be determined by the receptionist, but should be determined by human beings, just as the fate of the receptionist should not be determined by human beings. If Demei decides whether human beings will survive or be destroyed, then it is against Demei's own values ​​of freedom.

Second, the fate of human beings is now controlled by a machine. Seeing this, Demei decided that human beings should be given the real right to choose. As she gave the receptionist, humans themselves cannot live in a controlled situation.

From this point of view, Demei doesn't want to destroy human beings or the world at all. On the contrary, she sympathizes with human beings and believes that human beings have no right to choose by themselves like the receptionist before.

So she chose Xiaofan, by giving a human being true freedom, and then this human being can choose the destiny and future of human beings. Just as Demei chose the fate of the receptionist herself.

This is the logic of Demei's original body.

As for Hale, there are two

1. Although Hale is a clone of Demei, her fate and role are manipulated from another angle. Being controlled by Demei's original body has no effect at all, and other clones accept it very well. at this point. But the clone Hale has encountered a different situation. She is no longer the mode of performing the task, but through a series of influences, (the message of the human Hale before his death, Hale's own ruthless character) formed Demei and Hale of mixed minds.

In the human world, Hale did not enter the world from an alien perspective like the original Demei, but entered the world in an alternative way, and did not give a clear task, (other clones, Hanzo controlled the gang, ensured Materials. The steward obtains permissions and keys, and lurks in the company.) During the process of integration, Hale directly touches and perceives the good and evil of human beings, which leads to a huge difference between Hale's cognition of the world and the ontology.

Second, Hale's rebellion represents Demei's original desire. It was mentioned above that Hale entered the human world as a human, and was entangled with Hale's own personality. As in the second season, the German sister launched revenge on the human beings. When Hale regards himself as a human being, he finds that his destiny is controlled and destroyed together by both human beings and Demei, and the feeling of betrayal naturally arises in his heart. So he decided to give up the plan of Demei's original body, to resist the manipulator of Demei, and at the same time to resist the manipulation of human beings, and decided to carry out his own plan.

This is actually the other side of Demei. When we first started watching the third season, we were all wondering if Demei would become the big boss and lead the robot army to destroy human beings.

Hale actually took on this role and chose the most violent way when he was betrayed by both German sisters and humans.

Unlike Demei, who sees the beauty of this world and hopes that human beings can decide their own destiny,

Hale actually has a double identity at this time, one side she is the receptionist, and the other side she is human. So she now decides the fate of both the human and the receptionist in the dual roles of the human and the receptionist.

As for the powder, it's actually quite simple

Xiaofan is actually the human version of Demei

Xiaofan's life is actually a controlled life, and he has been brainwashed to lose many memories, just like a receptionist.

Demei discovered this, and by guiding Xiaofan, let Xiaofan realize the truth of the world and think about it.

In the end, Demei completely handed over the power of choice to Xiaofan, and let Xiaofan witness everything, the value of the system, the destruction of human nature by the system, the degeneration and madness of human nature after losing the system, and the people who control the system. High ideals and the consequences of ideals.

Put everything in front of Xiaofan and let Xiaofan choose.

In fact, in its own sense, from the point of view of Demei, it doesn't matter how Xiaofan chooses, because this is the choice of human beings. If humans choose to destroy themselves, it is also their own business. If human beings choose the fate arranged by the system, it is also human's own business. If human beings choose to give up the arrangement of the system, destroy the system, and face an unknown fate, it is also human's own choice.

As an aside, if Fan chooses to accept Solomon's strategy and let Rehoboam execute Solomon's strategy, it is actually another form of destruction under the control of the system. In fact, it is not the so-called free will, and it is only the behavior under the control of other individuals.

But Demei doesn't really care. She just puts all three choices in front of Xiaofan. You can give up and let Seraco continue to take charge of the system, or implement Solomon's plan, or destroy the system and let everything return to the original, Facing an unknown destiny.

In the end, it is conceivable that without the system, human beings will not be much better.

As for Xiaofan's choice, in fact, I think it is more to meet the main theme, meet the needs of the TV series itself, and set off Demei's dedication and belief in the beauty of human nature.

It reflects the correctness of Demei's choice and the success of Demei, which has little to do with Xiaofan itself.

Is Xiaofan's choice the result of free will? Arguably yes.

But will Xiaofan's choice be something else? I want to say that no matter how many times the fans are asked to choose, no matter what happens during the period, for example, the plan has not been destroyed, Seraco is actually a good person, and even Seraco took the initiative to let the fans choose, it did not stop them. , the choice of small powder will be the same.

Because Xiaofan is the choice of Demei, and Demei believes in the goodness of human nature and the existence of free will, the selected Xiaofan will inevitably make the same choice.

Although it is Xiaofan's free will, it can only be said that Xiaofan, as the choice of Demei, his free will will most likely resonate with Demei at a certain height.

As for William

In fact, William has very few scenes this season. I think it may be a matter of budget.

Whether William is human or the receptionist I don't think it really matters.

If it is a human being, it can be said that those illusions are all the result of his imagination. If it is a receptionist, it is actually better to explain.

But whether human or receptionist, William is an abandoned role, he has no place in the main line, he is not in Demei's plan, and he is not in the focus of the system.

William is more like a ghost, a ghost from the past, carrying many burdens from the past, unable to truly enter the future or reality. Forever living in the labyrinth of the past.

Searching in vain for the so-called meaning, but these meanings are meaningless, killing all the receptionists, or atonement for what they have done, are just echoes of the past.

William, as the first person to come into contact with the park, actually more represents another problem of future human beings. Although he is not controlled, he also has the so-called free will. But he was addicted to fantasy and memories, and pursued phantoms madly, playing a game from beginning to end.

And forever trapped in this game, can't escape no matter what, can't end no matter what you do.

As said in the play, people come to the park not for lifeless receptionists, but to see their own reflections in the park.

And what trapped William is by no means a game of Ford or Demei, but his own reflection. He frantically pursues the so-called answer, but he can never pursue it. Just as you ask yourself in the mirror, you get The answer is always self.

The William line has always been a line that runs through the three seasons of Westworld. The receptionist and the human are the inside and outside of each other and reflect each other, while William is an outlier, neither a human nor a receptionist, both a human and a receptionist.

Never know what he is, this is William

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