Detailed E03 Pop Squad

Each episode of Love Dead has two titles. Title and Icon. This article also focuses on the analysis of these two.

E03.Pop Squad[Modern Correction Team]

First explain why it is translated this way (Modern Jisheng Team). Look at Squad first, the first definition found in Collins is the most appropriate.

A squad is a section of a police force that is responsible for dealing with a particular type of crime.

A police force for a certain type of criminal activity . In the film, this kind of criminal activity is childbirth, so Squad translates the birth squad .

Looking at Pop again, we take the two meanings of popular and modern . Popularity and tradition , which will be discussed later, constitute a binary opposition , and modernity and dinosaurs constitute a binary opposition . Therefore, the title is translated as Modern Jiesheng Team . (Isn't "Popular Squadron" awkward hahaha)

Click on the title to see the icon↓

From the icon, we can know the film: Element 1 Eye Element 2 [Uniform] Cap Element 3 Dinosaur Toy

The following are expanded-

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There are only three close-ups of the eyes throughout the film .

Comparing the first and third places, you will find that Briggs' pupils (black parts) have become larger . This process is more pronounced when Alice is doing rejuvenation. The pupil controls the amount of light entering, and the pupil is dilated, which means more light entering. More light entering means more information, and better decisions can be made in the recognition response. Therefore, dilated pupils can be roughly guided to critical moments and vitality .

Comparing the second and third places, I found that Briggs and Alice had the same posture, both looking up at the sky . But the difference is that after Wangtian, Alice is rejuvenated and Briggs is seriously injured and on the verge of death .

So there is a contradiction in this. Briggs is obviously about to die, so why does he still show a physiological state of dilated pupils, which is equivalent to Alice's gain of vitality ? In addition to the metaphor of comparison , there should be a more relevant explanation for the natural stress before death — the permanence of the body and whether the person is "alive" are two different things .

I like to see things through her little eyes, very bright, very alive, not dead, like you.

—Melanie to Briggs

Modern man is like dead when he is involved in the endless repetition of toil and daily life . The existence of the whole person is not for a kind of "willing to be" and "being at ease" , but "being forced to be" and "being forced to be" ; his person is not an individual with a high subjectivity , but as a person who produces certain things . functional structure . _

Human beings become a function . In this historical process, only the outline of a certain superior existence (group, social organization, enterprise, country) has become brighter and brighter, while people have been bleak all the way. This is an inevitable and irresistible historical process, the future will only be worse than the current situation, and science fiction is the [imagined] future. Therefore, immortality, as an element of science fiction , will definitely bring "human death" . It holds fourfold:

endless . Endless life is endless suffering .

repeat . Endless pleasure will also fade in infinite repetition , and end in endless boredom .

Trouble . For the price to be paid for immortality, chaining people to the workplace is more prison than ever .

everyday . Everyday life is dominated life, and immortality gives this domination a time limit—forever.

∴ Immortality is to be involved in endless repetitions of tedious daily life . And ∵ endless repetition of toil and daily life is death.

Therefore, eternal life is eternal death . 【Inference a】

Now let's look at the first close-up of the eyes in the whole film:

In front of the scanner, he (human) is like a fish to be slaughtered, and infrared is like a knife to judge him (human).

For decades, he (human) has been in the endless repetition of daily toil,

Although alive, but also lost life. [Explain the contradiction]

Element Two [Uniform] Cap

The icon of this hat is obviously worn by Briggs at work, and has the symbol of "uniform", so the [uniform] hat is used here.

With the hat on, he's Captain Jiusheng; with the hat off, he's Briggs (this man).

There are two points worth mentioning about the hat element:

One, clear. The hat represents the Squad.

And we know that the mission of the Squad is to kill the child . (and its threatening nurturers)

Ironically, I never imagined that there would be such a day when the human species would have to kill children to maintain its own survival .

Therefore, here (the author) asks whether the Correction Team, as a violent institution , is really safeguarding the well-being of human beings ?

Two, it's obscure. Between wearing a hat and taking it off, Briggs' identity is switched .

That is, human beings are both their own perpetrators (Squad) and victims (Dead) . 【Inference b】

That is to say, in the historical process in which the human population has lost its subjectivity, the origin of each loss and the implementation of each step of loss are all done by human beings themselves. There is no "big demon villain" behind all of this, and it is the human beings who alienate human beings .

Element Three Dinosaur Toys

Dinosaur toys, first and foremost toys: associated with children. Second is Dinosaurs: Associated Traditions.

Pay attention to the timing of the dinosaur's appearance -

So it's pretty obvious here that dinosaurs are tradition . And the dinosaurs themselves also lived in the ancient geological period (Triassic/Jurassic/Chalky), which is a distant "past" .

And the dinosaurs were judged. The executor of the trial is the modern (pop) Squad.

The "modern" judges the "traditional", and the violent institutions judge children.

Perfect match.

Why do people like you keep having children?

—Briggs asks Melanie

Birth is a human instinct . If one day human beings develop to such a degree that they cannot even allow the freedom of reproduction, it is not human beings have progressed , but that the living conditions of human beings are already extremely bad .

When I saw Briggs' question at the time, I didn't feel relieved, I just felt sarcastic and sad . It is like seeing the living conditions of people a hundred years later .

(Don't try to explain the work for the purpose of political propaganda , that is the most effective way to destroy a work . Especially science fiction works are forward-looking, and it should not be so.

Fertility itself is not a problem .

The problem is that ① those who do not want to have children are forced to give birth, and ② those who want to have children are not allowed to have children .

The misinterpretation of this work is largely due to,

The crowd in 2021 is in the state of ① , and the author is discussing the problem of ② . )

But note this ending , where the protagonist Briggs achieves a return to his own subjectivity (although he dies at the same time).

This is inseparable from his conservative tendencies. We can fully understand the conservative as a deceleration device for the process of human civilization's degeneration . Briggs' conservativeness is reflected in 1. the moral guilt when killing a child; 2. the shock of being questioned by the child's father; 3. the association of dinosaur toys.

So Briggs' behavior of killing his subordinates is completely acceptable.

When it comes to being conservative, I want to end with an old saying I once liked:

Long live the Conservative Party, and the Conservative Party must die. —RuLong