Each episode of Love Dead has two titles. Title and Icon. This article also focuses on the analysis of these two.
E01.Automated Customer Service [Automated Customer Service]
From the icon, we can know the film: Element 1 Cleaning Robot Element 2 Human [VR-Die] Element 3 Cactus
The following are expanded-
Element one cleaning robot
The cleaning robot runs through the whole process. There are three attack modes in clear mode.
Corollary a. The purpose of the cleaning robot "rebellion" is to charge [by the threat of violence] . The instigation behind it is "automatic customer service" . Argument 1. The most lethal laser is only used for deterrence , and in the end, it is still used to paralyze human beings .
Argument 2. Automated customer service guides women to escalate conflict throughout the conflict . 2.1 The owner requests to talk to the human customer service and waits for 6 hours 2.2 It is recommended to restart the robot, but this operation turns on the " clear mode " 2.3 It is recommended to throw pets and blankets at the robot, but this operation is defined as an attack and opens the family Defend Safe Mode
Now that this is the robot's home, it is recommended that you run away. - Automatic customer service
2.4 However, the home security security mode will lock all doors and windows at the same time , so that no one can escape .
It can be seen that this whole process is an interlocking guide. After turning on the home security security mode, there are only two results: 1. The woman is paralyzed by the electric current. After waking up , she was told that she had invaded the robot's home and that she had to pay a "fine" to leave; 2. The woman counterattacked and destroyed the robot, and was told that she would be hunted down by all robots in the future , unless she "purchased" another robot.
Therefore, the inference a holds. The purpose of the cleaning robot "rebellion" is to charge [through threats of violence] . The instigation behind it is "automatic customer service" .
Element Two Humans [VR-Die]
The human figure in the short film is a three-headed body. The head is huge and the limbs are short.
Such a deformed setting expresses two points: 1. Like a baby. Everything is done by robots ; incompetent in combat; head-to-body ratio is also like a baby. 2. All organs except the brain are superfluous. "degenerate".
So there is an inference b. The process of "doing it" by the machine is the process of losing the "subjectivity" of human beings . Argument 1. Women can kill robots by the power of guns. There is no robot "doing it" , the gun . Argument 2. A woman can kill a robot by virtue of her yoga. She is really practicing yoga, it's not "just what it means". Yoga is the exercise of the human body , not the brain .
Look again, almost everyone in this movie wears VR glasses. And VR is a part of the "intelligent-mechanical" system. That is to say, the human population is more dependent on the Omni-Machine (than it is now). Where there is dependence exists, and without dependence it perishes. This is called dependence.
"Freedom" goes up, "Freedom" goes down.
Element Three Cactus
The whole cactus film appeared once.
Combined with the aerial shot of the first shot, it can be inferred that the Sunset City where the story takes place is located in an oasis in the desert.
And the cactus has appeared once, and it can actually become the Icon representing this episode . If it only explains the geographical environment, this reason is not enough to convince me.
As mentioned earlier, the first two Icons in this episode, the cleaning robot and the human [VR-Die], interact with each other. The robot sucks the glasses off the human, and the human head turns into a skull. Now we know that this is the symbol of the whole story and the anxiety the work wants to express. What about the cactus?
Cactus is rightfully the author 's answer to this concern.
What is a cactus in Western culture? Western.
What is a Western? Heroes , conflict , battle , dignity . It is an era when human beings still retain their strong subjectivity .
Isn't this western?
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