The movie "Morgan" looks like another modern interpretation of the story of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Scientists eat their own evil consequences, just like the arrogant "Creator" stabbed to death by their own products in " Machines " in 2015 . The difference is that the Morgan in the movie is not a robot, but a biochemical man born from synthetic DNA implanted in nanometers. What is the difference between a biochemical man and a robot? The film does not try to answer for us. It gives some easy-to-understand explanations of how this kind of biochemical man came into being, but it does not intend to discuss this in depth. Machines, biochemistry, synthesis, and prosthetics, these concepts that science fiction fans are happy to produce in detail, may be just the same settings for the director. Perhaps he is just tired of the endless robot themes that often appear on the screen. Let's change the trick this time.
This reminds me of the Marvel comic " Vision " (Vision), which was written by Tom King a while ago . In the first chapter of this comic, an old couple is going to visit the newly moved into the community. . On the way, the old couple argued for a long time about whether the vision is a robot or a synthetic human.
For me, this is naturally not a trivial issue. If she is a pure robot, we have our own standard mode of "observing" her. As a biochemical person, for this beautiful girl who is locked in a research institute and isolated in a glass room, how can I judge her special? How should I understand the cherishment and pride these scientists hold for her?
The movie tells us that Morgan's growth rate is very fast. At only 5 years old, she looks like 17 years old. The movie does not tell us whether this excessive growth rate will accelerate her aging. No one in the play ( Too late) to discuss this issue; in conversations with people, Morgan will show some surprising but not enough foresight ability. I guess that this ability comes from the nano implantation in her cells, which allows her to freely read the information in the online database. But this is just my conjecture, and the director does not bother to give the slightest explanation. The movie looks like you are going to do a fortune-telling, and the fortuneteller knows your past very well. This does not seem to be magical, but it makes people guess whether there is cheating; other than that, it is Scientists claim that Morgan has wisdom beyond ordinary people, even though the film did not show too much... In fact, in my eyes, before Morgan had demonstrated her enhanced physical fitness and super strong fighting skills, she did not How precious and unique. I think she was described as a mysterious product, but she did not appear to be too mysterious, but she did not make us feel closer to her. Separated by a layer of glass, she and the scientists who created her, the consultants and psychologists who came to observe and evaluate her, kept a safe distance, and refused to go deeper into her heart from the audience outside the screen. In terms of setting, the movie "Morgan" put forward some interesting content, but did not follow these clues to develop more new possibilities, but told the story according to the traditional model.
For Morgan in the movie, the identity issue also brings constant confusion. Of course, her confusion is not what kind of artificial person she is? Or what is special about yourself? Her confusion came more from the desire to kill from time to time, which she attributed to unexplainable misjudgments. It was this "error" that led to the accident, and the company dispatched a risk assessment consultant played by Kate Mara and a psychological assessor played by Paul Giamatti to investigate. When Morgan ran away completely, he slaughtered all the scientists in the institute, and then went to bid farewell to the "mother"-Dr. Cheng played by Michelle Yeoh. She asked suspiciously: "What the hell am I? What should I become How?" Dr. Cheng looked at her calmly and replied, "I'm sorry. Now you should know what you are." Then Morgan strangled him in his arms.
This sentence is not a clear answer. Many directors like to use this ambiguous way to guide the audience to their own conclusions. However, in this movie, Dr. Cheng recorded a video to the company before his death, which clearly explained the original intention of the entire research project and the reasons for the current situation. In this video, Dr. Cheng said: "Despite our attempts to promote natural and emotional intelligence, Morgan still cannot surpass her weaponized design parameters." Therefore, it can be said that the origin of the entire research is to build human weapons. Perhaps in the Helsinki incident repeatedly mentioned in the movie, early research and development caused mass killings, leading researchers to try to reconcile and suppress the original violent parameters in the design, making the final product more gentle and controllable. But the result was still a failure, repeating the same mistakes again. When the film progresses to this point, it feels like a sci-fi version of "The Bourne Shadows ". Whether you are a real human or a biochemical person born under high technology, you are also right in the process of searching for yourself. The creator launched his revenge. However, the climax of the movie came from the confrontation between Kate and Morgan. Their fights are like killers from the Bonn series fighting each other, full of thrilling hand-to-hand combat and physical confrontation. From all the signs, we can easily guess: The risk consultant sent by the company is a biochemical person like Morgan.
Therefore, the entire movie becomes a product test controlled by the company's senior figures to measure which R&D product is more in line with the company's needs. Everyone is just a small victim. In the face of greater power to control life and death, there is no difference between the situation of humans and artificial humans. The end is an open-ended process. Kate, who completed the task perfectly, looked at his hands, and seemed to begin to question his existence and meaning, just as Morgan did before he ran away in the laboratory. Will she run away in the same way? When the company's top executives decided to invest money in the products represented by Kate while talking and laughing, this kind of hidden danger also pervaded the unknown future. The story of love and killing between human beings and their creations will continue...
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