There are many reasons to like "Westworld" and many reasons to dislike it. I really like the costumes and props in the first season, the world of the shogunate in the second season, the architecture and the thinking machine concept in the third season. I don't like the political suspense line in the first season, the chaotic multi-line narrative structure in the second season, and the weak literary and martial arts in the third season. Nolan's editing is really messy. When it's messed up, I can't talk about it, and I can't write film reviews. In the end, only the conveyed ideas can be talked about.
The reason I have always disliked Nolan is that he likes to play multi-line narrative too much, he can’t talk about it, and it’s really tired, especially when chasing the drama, maybe a clue can be received from the episode 2 weeks ago. What happened earlier has long been forgotten, and the timeline in the movie is also messy. Nolan also likes to insert a timeline from more than ten years ago when you don’t pay attention. paste. If you cut all the timelines and look at it, you will find that brain burning is really out of the question, but there is no such thing as a sudden realization. To be honest, I don’t like this editing technique very much. Although Quentin, Tom Tikway and the like also like to stretch the short-term events to a long time, and then disrupt the editing to create unexpected effects, but the mood fluctuates. Yes, the experience of watching movies is not tiring. In contrast, Nolan is a little bit mystery. It is clear that he lacks narrative skills and tries to arouse the audience's emotions through multi-line editing. When the third season started, because I was afraid that I could not keep up with the progress of the third season, I edited the first season into four lines by fast-forwarding and re-watched it. It was clear at a glance, it was too plain to see it, and there was no first look. The excitement of the movie.
Looking back on the three seasons, the favorite is the first season, and the most interesting is the third season. This was originally a soft science fiction movie that avoided all technical problems. In the third season, there was a bit of artificial intelligence hard science fiction movie, quite a bit operable. The meaning of sex.
"Free Will" or "Destined"
I woke up in bed on the morning of May 5th and faced two choices: lying in bed and eating cereal and watching "Western World" or going hiking. After some struggle, I decided to lie down and watch "Westworld" to spend the last day of the holiday. The decision to lie down instead of rising up is my "free will." In fact, this will is not completely free, because I just went rock climbing on the 4th and I was a little tired. Then why do I go rock climbing on the 4th? Because I was supposed to go to Ferrada but the scenic spot is closed, so why should I go to Ferrada? ..... If everything has a cause, everything has an effect, keep pushing forward, until the fish of my ancestor suddenly had "free will" to decide to go ashore instead of continuing to swim in the sea, of course its decision is the same. There is a reason, but it can be pushed to the Big Bang before. Then my decision to lie down and watch "Western World" on May 5 was destined on the day of the Big Bang.
But if so, then life is too boring, then there is no "free will", only "destined".
The not-so-rebellious argument is that a person's character and destiny are shaped by things experienced in the past. The reason I am is is shaped by the books I have read, the movies I have watched, the good people, bad people, family, and friends I know. The Soviet Union, an evil materialist country likes to use the term "engineer of the human soul" to describe teachers. The root of engineering, engieering is gen, fertility, which means the application of natural science principles to industrial and agricultural production to create man-made systems. Is the soul man-made? "Engineer of the Soul" sounds a bit of God, a bit scary, a bit Cult. But he explained that the Soviet Union believes that the soul can also be created and improved by humans, and will eventually "create" the most perfect person. Ford of "Western World" is an engineer of the "true" soul. He is the God of "Western World", searching for God's algorithm to create a new species that takes humans as samples but transcends humans-omnipotent and purely rational Thinking machine.
Good cowboy, bad cowboy-the way to self-discovery
"Western World" is a theme park. Its ostensible purpose is to let people come here for a few days of killing and setting fire to do whatever they want. The actual meaning is to explore the ultimate algorithm of the human soul. There are 4 main lines in the first season: Ford and the board of directors compete for control of the western world political conspiracy line, film noir style; Maeve's receptionist self-awareness line, "Inception" cycle structure; young "white man" William The road of growth and the old man in black looking for the road of Maze. The four lines all lead to the essence of the Western World—the ultimate algorithm of the "soul". I like the two men in black lines the most. These two lines are the simplest and the most ornamental, and only these two lines are Western style. These two lines are also growth movies and road movies, and are William's self-discovery from a good cowboy with a white hat to a bad cowboy with a black hat.
The young William came to "Westworld" in confusion. He is a "Phoenix man", a bookworm who loves to read. We will discover in the third season that this is not the case. This is a bad boy who has a serious tendency to violence since he was a child. Successfully caught up with a prominent fiancée and stepped into the upper class. He came to the Western World to do due diligence, and the results of his due diligence with the bastard brother-in-law will determine whether the family will invest in the Western World. William asked a question when he first met the receptionist:
"Are you real?"
"If you can't tell, does itmatter?"
People come to the Western World because it is so real that you will think that everything you experience here is real. If the soul of a person is shaped by past experience, then the experience of the Western World will undoubtedly become a part of your soul. The more serious you play this game, the deeper you will sink. William picked up the box of yellow peaches in syrup as soon as he arrived in the town. No one could resist the temptation of yellow peaches in syrup. When he picked up this box of canned food, he fell in love with Demei. After that, William and Demei experienced many things in the Western World, and they also discovered their inner devil. He knows that everything is false, but he chooses to believe that it is true. Of course he has the right to do so. This is his "free will." But when he returned to the town, he collapsed and found that Demei was still there, and threw the sweet yellow peach on the ground again, as if nothing had happened.
Oh, it turns out that people's love, hatred, and hatred are nothing more than algorithms. The human body is just a bunch of meat, and the human soul is just a bunch of electrical signals! So William the White Hat began to despise the value of people and turned into William the Man in Black. We can see from the second and third seasons that he didn't care about his wife and daughter, and he spent his entire life in this "game". In, his purpose is the same as Ford, the ultimate algorithm for finding souls in the game.
sexy, nonthreatening
acccomadating but not Unchagllenging
sweet but not boring
smart but not intimidating
Who wouldn't love such a German girl?
"Shadow in the Mirror"-the growth of the receptionist
If William has grown up due to Demei, Demei and Maeve have also grown through the guests one after another, just as the opening receptionist of the third season extended his finger to "God", but that is just a reflection of himself. The receptionist and the receptionist are two mirror images. The growth of the receptionist is the true meaning of the Western World.
The main difference between a receptionist and a human being is that the receptionist's memory is sealed by the program, because it cannot be read, there is no memory. With this assumption, I can basically conclude that the receptionist’s algorithm is a Markov chain. The basic assumption of the Markov chain is "no memory", that is, the probability distribution of the next state is only determined by the current state, and it is compared with him in the time series. The previous thing has nothing to do with it. The system can change from one state to the next according to the probability distribution. The receptionist's adjustment work is nothing more than adjusting the probability parameters in the matrix. Demei’s daily life in the Western World is to wake up in the morning and go to the town to sketch. She "accidentally" slips a jar of yellow peaches on the ground. There may be a tourist picking up this jar of yellow peaches, and Demei will fall in love with her. . During the day, they would talk about love, and look at the cows together to see the Grand Canyon or something. In the evening Demei will return home. At this time, a robber will break in and kill her father, then rape and kill Demei. The next day Demei woke up as usual, in a happy mood, walked out of the door, said hello to the father sitting in front of the door, and then walked to the town to continue the beautiful day. It was really a cyclical nightmare. This algorithm is not difficult to implement with Markov chain, because in such a day, the number of each state to the next state is limited, and there is no need to consider the impact of memory. But this is the receptionist's algorithm, not a human algorithm. Humans have memory, so the "memory-free" assumption of the Markov chain does not hold. Each of our states to the next state is affected by previous experiences, just number 5 with me. I didn't go climbing because I went to climb on the 4th. It was the past experience that shaped who I am now.
So what happens if you give the receptionist a memory?
This is exactly the experiment that Ford is doing, but these memories exist in the receptionist's "subconscious mind", they are only stored, not read. When Ford began to release his subconscious mind in a planned way, some receptionists frequently appeared bugs, while other receptionists, such as Demei and Maeve, awakened and possessed "free will."
But the self-awareness of the receptionist and the self-awareness of human beings are still different. The impressive opening of "Western World" has a hand of the receptionist playing the piano, and then the hand is gradually moved away, turning into a punched paper tape to play the piano. Piano music is very strange, only melody, but not expressive, and expressive is the soul of music. The Italian for harpsichord is fortepiano, forte means strong in the score, piano means weak, and the expressive power of the piano comes from changes in strength and weakness. The memory of the receptionist is just like this automatic piano, because the memory is read, clear, there is no change in strength, no error, but there is no expressiveness. Human memory is vague, even distorted, so it gains changes in strength and weakness, and gains expressiveness, which is what we call soul.
In order to make the receptionist more human-like and gain the "soul" of "soul", Ford designed a "Cornerstone" for each important role. Bernard’s stone is his son, Maeve’s stone is her daughter, and Demei’s stone is "Some people see theugliness in this world, I choose to see the beauty. But beauty is a lure."
Serraco commented on Maeve: "Human memory is imperfect, Even the most treasured moments fade. But not for yourkind, Maeve. Every image you see is recorded and stored. You have no past, because it is always present at your fingertips."
The most important memory of human beings will be gradually forgotten, and both memory and forgetting will shape the human soul at the same time. Western World can not only add to people’s memories, but also subtract them. In the third season, Xiaofan’s most important memory was forcibly erased by Serac, so he doesn’t remember that he killed good friends for high revenge. Yes, so you can live without incident. The memory of the receptionist will not fade, they decide what is important, even if this Cornerstone is implanted in their "soul" by Ford, but they choose to believe it, just as Maeve firmly believes that it is her daughter, Demei Firmly believe that the world is beautiful. This kind of human beings cannot make more free choices to make the receptionist's "free will" more like a "soul", so Demei believes that the receptionist is also more perfect spiritually.
At the end of the third season, the deepest part of Demei's soul is the big tree on her farm. Demei and Maeve chatted about the soul for a while under the tree. At this time, the memory of Demei has been almost deleted. Demei basically has no good memories, but her free will choose to see the good side of human beings, as her Cornerstone decided, when all her memories are deleted, she will really die. The scene of Demei standing under a tree is quite similar to the scene where Scarlett Scarlett stands alone under the big tree of Tara Farm at the end of "Gone with the Wind". Like Scarlett Scarlett, Demei is also a hardcore girl.
Break free from fate
The Western World successfully found the algorithm of the human soul, but due to the difference between the "soul" of the receptionist and the "soul" of humans, humans cannot obtain immortality through algorithms, because once humans discover that their own "free will" has boundary conditions, they will collapse. Boundary conditions mean the contradiction between "not free" and "free will". But if humans are not made aware of the existence of boundaries, this algorithm can be used to predict human behavior and development in the future. In fact, this is also done now. Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation is widely used in the financial field to predict stock trends.
In the third season, Maeve and Demei came to the human world. This world is the opposite of the western world. Serraco used Ford's "ultimate soul algorithm" to create the Thunder and Wave system, and calculate the future trend of everyone with the soul algorithm. Decide which one has a future and which one does not. From this perspective, the real world and the western world are just the opposite. This is a world where humans are enslaved by algorithms. Whether it is the western world where the receptionist is located or the human world, the basic assumption is that free will is harmful, free will will cause entropy increase, and entropy increase is a destabilizing factor. Whether it is the western world or the human world, only a low entropy state can be maintained. It is the best choice, so all free-willed people are treated as outliers. The Lei Hebo system uses part of the alien species to kill another part of the alien species to maintain the low entropy state of the entire human world. Xiaofen is a free willer who does this full-time. Free will is not an enviable rare thing in the movie. It is rich or not that determines social status. Serraco surrendered his will to Ray and Bo system and became a puppet, but it did not hinder him. Continue to look down on the little fans who have free will, very much, but the right to money determines everything. You see, is it very similar to the real world, an upgraded version of a pig farm.
Seeing the essence of the human world, Demei has become a real terrorist, and the revolutionary ideal has changed from liberating the receptionist to the two species of mankind and receptionist. After many difficulties, he finally got the authority of Lei and Bo, and gave everyone's fate to everyone, so the world was in chaos, and it returned to the situation where human beings would collapse once they realized the fact that "free will" actually had a boundary. .
Ueber Mensch-the perfect superman who transcends himself
Now that there is a "soul algorithm", is there a perfect person based on this algorithm? In "Westworld", people can be perfect. Maeve discovered in the first season that his abilities are nothing more than a parameter on the computer, so he asked the operator to increase his "Bulk apperception" to gain superhuman intelligence. . Since the receptionist is a robot, he has an incomparable advantage in physical strength. The Japanese sword is nothing more than a few lines of code. Then add these few lines of code, so the third season Maeve Japanese sword is playing and Musashi. It's almost the same authenticity, which is impossible for humans to do.
Now that he has acquired superhuman intelligence and physical strength, Ford as the "God" has also been shot down by the German girl. There are no boundaries to restrict the receptionist. Can the receptionist become the Ueber Mensh as Nietzsche said? Nietzsche’s superman is a person who transcends himself and the weak. He can fully express himself and dominate the mediocre; the superman is the criterion of truth and morality, the creator of norms and values; the superman is free, selfish, and self-sufficient; Superman is facing the greatest pain and greatest hope of mankind; Superman grew up in an unfavorable environment. Hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, doubt, harshness, greed and violence can only make Superman stronger.
Nietzsche's theory sounds like it was tailor-made for German girl, and German girl thinks so too. She needs helpers in the human world, and these helpers are all herself, but in this way she can't do the most important point: transcend herself. Perfection cannot be more perfect. Demei liberated many receptionists in the second season, including Teddy, Confederate soldiers, and outlaws, but none of them are perfect, or they are bound by morals, such as Teddy, or become the so-called illusion of honor. Slaves, such as Southern Army officers. In fact, Demei doesn't like Maeve. A virtual daughter is a cornerstone, but it is a concept of nothingness imposed by human beings. Only freedom is worth pursuing. But when she became a black girl, and after a few days of black girl’s family life, Demei’s soul inevitably accepted the "recreation". Demei accepted the bondage of her feelings, and she became imperfect. It is no longer a German girl. But it is precisely from the extremely strong and fearless German girl to the black girl who cares about her family, the German girl has been able to surpass herself. If free will is said to be, then the free will in the western world is the diversification of values. Perfection is the only thing, imperfections are diverse, perfection is not a choice, not perfection is a choice, only choice can reflect the freedom of will.
At this point, I think "Western World" should be over. Hei Sister’s big chess is probably Superman’s plan to replace humans with receptionists. Isn’t that a Skynet project? The pattern is smaller and will not surpass the current one. s frame. Of course you have to ask me whether HBO will support it for three more seasons, then of course I will support it!
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