Netflix, a traffic video company that is extremely eager for stories, took a fancy to Andrew Nicole this time.
Andrew Nicole, the commercial film giant who made "At the End of the Day" and "The King of War" knows genre film elements well.
He is also the screenwriter of the famous sci-fi film "The World of Truman". On the issue of dystopia, technology invading reality, and mimicry world swallowing the real world, it is estimated that few people can beat him.
"At the End of the Day" settled on genetic technology,
"The World of Trumen" interprets the mimicry world,
Technology has caused the distortion of reality. We can use technology to recreate ourselves while monitoring others.
But technology is often complicit with power. Such scarce resources are always in the hands of a very small number of people. When power is not restrained, science and technology will become the devil's murderous weapon.
Netflix and Andrew Nicole’s new film "Anon" (Anon) depicts a "beautiful new world" controlled by the "big brother" of technology.
In the not-so-distant future world, all citizens are involved in the "eyes of the soul" of Ethernet. Those electronic eyes can help us record events and become terminals for humans to connect to others or objects, just like mobile phones in the mobile Internet era. You need to scan, just use your "eyes" to see, you can automatically know the identity of the other party and various information about the item, and even pay directly online.
However, due to different levels, some people can see more information through the "eye of the soul".
The detective played by Cliff Owen in the film can use the playback memory function to see what everyone has recorded through the "eye of the soul", identify lies, and solve the case.
However, the recent cases shocked the entire police station. Someone hacked into the "eyes of the soul" of others so that the other party could only see the murderer's perspective for a while. In other words, these victims witnessed it before they were killed. The whole process of being killed.
What's more frightening is that these murderers did not leave any information, and the police could not solve the case through the "Eye of the Mind", and the loopholes in the "Eye of the Mind" firewall became an ulterior secret.
When the case was confusing and confusing, the detective discovered a mysterious woman who could not be identified by the "eye of the soul". He firmly believed that this coquettish woman was the key to solving the case.
After a long-term relationship with the woman, the detective has a new understanding of the world controlled by the "Eyes of the Mind", and he doubts whether the way the world works is in the interests of himself and others.
"Anonymous" wraps an old-school detective story with a brand-new sci-fi perspective. The protagonist has a new understanding of the society and world he lives in through solving the case, and he is wary of the technology that he completely relied on at the beginning.
There are two very important issues in "Anonymous",
The first is the future without privacy; then the memory of the present and the past that can be tampered with;
After the self's "seeing is believing" has become the hope that others will "see" through technology, the entire world, social communication, and self have become empty symbols that can be replaced in mimicry reality.
A signifier who may be monitored at any time, taking time out;
Referents that can be tampered with by others to give meaning;
Until then, am I still me? I or me can no longer draw the equal sign.
In the film, the detectives first watched some of the memory fragments of others through the "eye of the soul", and then began to monitor the life of the mysterious woman 24 hours a day in order to solve the case, hoping to capture the clues of her true identity from a place where she can see.
A group of male detectives used a woman's perspective to monitor through the places she could see, and the so-called personal privacy was completely exposed at this moment.
Foucault’s "circular open prison" is shown at a higher level in the film. A group of people can monitor the lives of others without any obstruction through technology, and the other party does not even know whether they are being monitored, when and when. The ground will be monitored.
Under the pressure of being monitored, the individual's behavior and thinking ability will gradually be alienated, becoming a unified response that conforms to the power requirements after the discipline, and it is maintained at all times, not daring to cross the thunder pond half a step.
In addition, through the "eye of the soul", hackers can wantonly recreate the world in the eyes of the other party.
In the film, the detective is repeatedly deceived by hackers in the process of tracing the perpetrator. The twisted stairs, the terrifying fire, and the completely distorted world amplify the detective’s inner fear and become a matchmaker in the hands of hackers. puppet.
What's more frightening is that hackers can also enter the other party's memory through Ethernet, delete, splice, add, and shift.
When the detective discovered that his most precious memory of his deceased son had been deleted, he was in great pain. That is the proof that he was him. It was the mark of his birth as a father. When hackers can delete and modify him at will When he remembered, he instantly lost contact with his past self,
He is no longer him.
If the memory of another person is added to another person, the identity brought by the memory will undoubtedly affect the behavior and cognition of the other person. In the future, it will enter another possible space, and there will be unpredictable changes.
In "The World of Truman", we saw the game experience of the male protagonist being monitored by the whole world. In the end, the male protagonist escaped this mimicry world carefully designed for him by deceiving himself and others, playing a trick on everyone, and starting In your normal life, you no longer need performance and disguise.
"Anonymous" is an enlarged version of "The World of Truman". Everyone lives in the world of Truman's mimicry. Under constant and ubiquitous surveillance, we can only perform and pretend, even living Both experience and memory may be modified at any time.
If you lose your privacy and memory, you will undoubtedly lose your freedom, and you will lose yourself.
"Anonymous" does not have a display of HTC's future city, and even the story is old-fashioned. The special effects spectacle is only in the portrayal of the "eye of the soul", which has been ridiculed by movie fans who think it is not enough science fiction.
But it is precisely because of the restraint of the film that fans can see the consequences of privacy and memory being threatened by science and technology in minimalism, understand the existence of the ubiquitous "big brother", and see the so-called "beautiful newness". The operating rules of the world.
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