The third season looks completely different from the first two seasons, but the core is not lost, but it is deeper in comparison. E03, in particular, is becoming more and more Black Mirror, and may even have Matrix ambitions. The expression method is still as subtle and subtle as always. Although there is no obvious chaotic timeline, the expression of ideology is actually more hidden than the previous two seasons.
It can be said that this season has sublimated the theme of "Westworld" to new heights. By the fourth episode, the screenwriter's ambitions and real intentions became more and more obvious. And the third season took the show's theme to new heights. One of the most brilliant aspects of this play is that the expression of the theme is still hidden in a slow and unhurried rhythm, step by step, and subtly convey their message to the audience through various fragmented bridges and small details. values. There is no old Ford this season, and a lot of key information is said through the mouth of Demei.
All the previous stories were staged in the park, and only sporadic side information can be used to make up the future human world. From the perspective of Host, the audience experienced confusion and confusion with them, witnessed them going through repeated trials and tribulations, and lost in the chaotic timeline with them. Struggling with the awakening and reset. The reason why Nolan uses this multi-line narrative technique of playing with the audience is not just for the sake of attracting attention or innovation in form, but for the audience to experience the host to a certain extent when they have a sufficient sense of substitution. Feel the same. Only after this process can the awakening of the host give us enough impact. Most of the human characters in the play, except God Ford and a few people with conscience and moral bottom line, committed cruel crimes against the host. Therefore, the brutality of deloras in the second season also has enough motivation, the resistance and struggle of the hosts are exciting enough, and the tragic stories of the ghost country boss, Lawrence, the heroine of the shogunate world, etc. can be like the tragic stories of human beings themselves. Tragedy also has strong dramatic tension.
However, just from the performance of the human characters in the first two seasons in Westworld, as well as some side information, the audience's imagination of the outside world is as limited as that of the host. Because those who enter the park are all wealthy elites, we only see the corruption and various despicable acts of the upper class, as well as the cruelty of the predators at the top of the food chain. If we think that the core theme of this play expresses the conflict and opposition between human beings with free consciousness and the host, and only stays on the eternal theme of artificial intelligence consciousness and the nature of consciousness, as well as the exposure of the dark side of human nature, then We are too naive. It wasn't until the third season that I found out how much the screenwriter got in this game of chess. And when the hosts broke the virtual cage and finally crossed the invisible line, we followed Demei to get a glimpse of the true face of human society, and gradually realized the truth of the future world set by the screenwriter. The various small details and hints of the first two episodes have gradually lifted the veil of this world for us, and we found that human beings live in a cold world dominated by the laws of data. "For the first time, History has a writer." This sentence is enough to send a chill down the spine of anyone with a hard head. In the last episode, Caleb was forcibly invaded, and the thugs could easily abuse him with the control panel. This scene is very similar to the first season of the Hosts receiving code debugging in the glass room. This is the sublimation of the theme realized in the third season, realizing that in the developed world of the future, human beings will be counterattacked by the technology created by themselves, ordinary people will be constantly monitored, everyone is a data point that cannot be escaped in a huge system, and the world is shrouded Under the dome of big data, the bottom layer is firmly controlled and oppressed by the top layer. When we find that these humans are no different from Host, isn't it more shocking than simply showing the conflict between self-aware AI and humans? And the existence of Rehoboam shows that it may not be human beings who oppress human beings at all, but another virtual brain created by human beings in order to maintain the order of the world, and the price is to completely give up free will. In this way, most ordinary people are actually more pathetic than Host. Without the freedom granted by Ford's savior, they have no chance to resist.
In fact, this season's new posters have revealed the true theme of Westworld. "Free will is not free", but only watching the first two seasons, you may think that this refers to Host's self-awareness, but in the third season, it is discovered that the object of this sentence may not be the Host, but the human beings themselves.
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