Cells. Cells. Interlink. Interlink. Cells Interlink. Cells Interlink.
In "Blade Runner 2049", one of my favorite passages is not Dickens’s iconic aerial photography, or K walking alone in the red wasteland of Las Vegas, or the last K falling down It is very similar to Spike in the ending of Cowboy Bebop; but this Baseline Test, a benchmark test that measures the mental state of duplicates. Up to now, the sound of K word and sentence followed by mechanical repetition still surrounds my ears. Cells. Interlink. Cells Interlink. So beautiful, so alienated, so lonely.
Why do I like this paragraph so much? It separates humans from non-humans. It also separates the movie from reality. What it conveys is something we cannot understand, a conflict without any logic; and it is this sense of conflict that creates the world in this movie.
We know (or natural reasoning) that this Baseline Test is a continuation of the famous Voigt-Kampff test in Blade Runner in 1982; that Test distinguishes humans from clones by asking some specific questions; The main logic of this test is that the memories implanted by the cloners are false. By asking them a series of memory and emotional questions, they can detect their defects in this area. What are the questions given by the Voigt-Kampff test under this principle? A few examples are as follows:
Today is your birthday. Someone gave you a leather wallet. What is your reaction?
You are watching TV and suddenly you find a wasp crawling on your hand. How will you react?
Use one word, good vocabulary, to describe your mother.
And so on.
We can find that these questions are actually the kind of questions that you might be asked if you take a psychology test—if these questions can test the difference between a copy and a real person without the past and emotions, we Would think this is logical. This is the same as the imagination of 2019 in the 1982 movie: dark and crowded big cities, ecological collapse, and advertisements and Japanese signs everywhere. At that time, people imagined a dark future like this.
The Baseline Test is completely different. The purpose of this test is to "test whether the mental state of the replicator is in the standard state", and its test method does not have any logic that we can understand-the words and sentences used in the test have no logic (from Nabokov's novel Excerpted from "The Fire"), the method used in the test is not logical (following the mechanical repetition of words), and the test standard is not stated in the film. This test is a kind of logic that is its own in the movie, and it is completely beyond the scope of our rational cognition.
From the perspective of the setting of the world, the goals of these two tests are also different: the 82nd version of the VK test tests how humans resemble humans, whether they have some emotions and logic that only humans have, and thus The clone is separated from the real person; and the Baseline test of Silver Wing 2049 tests how unhuman the clone is. It keeps a close eye on the emotion fluctuations of the clone, and wants to control the emotion of the clone in a simple and easy way. A stable state. These two different tests have similar status. They seem to be similar means, but they are actually implemented with completely opposite goals.
It’s outstanding is that it is a logic of its own in the movie, which makes us realize that this 2049 world is developed from the 2019 world in the 1982 movie. , Has parted ways with our real world in 2017. It distinguishes between humans and non-humans, as well as movies and reality. This makes us very curious and want to peek behind the curtain of this movie-such a Baseline Test that we seem to be almost nonsense, it What is the supporting principle behind it?
This is the source of the sense of wonder of science fiction. I have never seen it before, and an unprecedented experience rushes to my face, which is amazing. So all you can say is a simple word of Wow.
This kind of surprise of Wow can only be brought to us by science fiction: the huge and beautiful world we glimpse on this screen, the world that is self-contained and developed with its own logic, that A world with high-performance flying cars and artificial intelligence, but no mobile phones, is such a real and exact existence: brick by brick, bit by bit, all have their own foundation support. This is the highest form of science fiction movies: building a world. Only a few science fiction movies have reached this level.
Let's go to Los Angeles in 2049 again. Diggins’ aerial shots are his hallmark, and no other movie has taken his aerial photography to the extreme like Blade Runner 2049: every aerial shot reveals the harsh world to us. The solar thermal power stations spread out on the earth represent the last efforts made by mankind in despair; under the sheds of farmland is synthetic agriculture, and all other organisms have disappeared, and mankind uses technology and industrial means on the earth. Surviving; the densely packed buildings of Los Angeles spread endlessly in the never-ending torrential rain, and at the end is a towering jetty wall, outside the wall is the violent Pacific Ocean, and to the south is the San Diego wasteland, garbage dumps, and humanity’s own. Desire transformed the earth into a crowded, desperate world. Many people say that Blade Runner 2049 is no longer like cyberpunk, but a large part of it portrays the wasteland world. In fact, I think this is the most normal state of cyberpunk-getting out of the crowded, dark cyberpunk. The city, outside is a deserted, desolate and desperate wilderness, this is simply the most natural thing. If the cyberpunk city is surrounded by birds and flowers or rural scenery, this combination is called a violation. Cyberpunk represents human technology and evil. Isn’t it too strange that this evil is only confined to the city?
The world in Silver Wing 2049 is not just a thrilling aerial photography; here I also want to talk about the microscope in Silver Wing 2049. These are subtle, little things that don't have too many people's attention. The X-ray machine type microscope that explores the internal structure of the bones uses the action of changing the lens when changing the angle of view. It is actually impossible to change the angle of view of the lens, but it is such a small detail. , It reminds us that this is a world that is not digitalized and uses mechanical and analog electronic devices, which is the so-called "Retro-Futurism" (Retro-Futurism). There are many such details in the film. For example, the DNA detector seems to be a mechanical winding method of microfilm, and the dream machine in Dr. Anna's hand: although the specific principle is not clear (of course, it is impossible Clear), but this dream machine has exactly the same structure and texture as many camera lenses produced in the 1980s.
In a sense, film is both the most suitable medium for constructing the world, but also the least suitable medium for constructing the world; it is most suitable for constructing the world because it is a completely visual presentation-some texts require a lot of money The details that can be described with pen and ink can be understood naturally only by appearing in the movie. And it is the least suitable for constructing the world, because a movie is only three hours long at most, and there are so many stories it can tell. It is too limited to construct a world. The best science fiction to construct the world can describe a world in detail with hundreds of thousands of words and millions of words; comics can describe a world with thousands of pictures, and only present the lowest level of stories (yes Yes, I'm talking about "Blame!"); the game can depict all the plants and trees of a whole world, really to construct a world.
This is the best part of Blade Runner 2049: it truly builds the world, it spends a lot of time to show us everywhere in this world; and these seem to be useless to many others, slowing down the pace The part is the true value of this movie. The greatest science fiction movies are all like this, and those who like to convey the story to the most compact, will not spend more words on the "superfluous", and efficiently tell the story to the end of the science fiction movie, even if its story is more exciting No matter how real the special effects are, they can only become "excellent" science fiction films at best, and cannot become "outstanding" science fiction films, and the most stingy ones are "banal" science fiction films (here, "Tron Legacy" is particularly criticized. ).
The story criticism of Silver Wing 2049 presents a strange polarization: the average audience feels that this is a slow-paced and too loose film; while true science fiction fans criticize the film’s story as too compact and too limited; To be honest, I am the latter. In such a lonely, indifferent, and alienated world between people, there should not be such a coincidence, and finally such a reunion; the endless, futile search should be the final ending of the movie. However, in this movie, the plot is not important-or not the most important, the most important thing is that it inherits and expands the world that has parted ways with our reality for 30 years, and it reintroduces the best of science fiction. Excellent traditions allow our imagination to break through the so-called "movie universe" of those boring and immutable superheroes, and to really think about some of the most serious issues: the relationship between people and themselves, and between people and the world. This is my positioning for it:
immortal.
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