Take the world as a cage

Kobe 2022-12-04 11:02:50

The whole drama began to be dazzled. After one season, I found that the content of the story was very simple, and the character settings were thin or even unreliable. In order to increase the sense of viewing, the plot was broken, with various small details and famous quotes interspersed with each other. The time and space of time and space allows viewers to focus on details while ignoring defects in characterization and psychological portrayal.

As a designer of the park, Arnold should know that what he designed is only a high-simulation game park. The robots in it are for game settings. He designed more human-like robots, but he cannot accept these robots according to the game settings. For people to kill, and in the real world, God can't stop humans from killing each other. He can only look at corpses higher than the pyramids, piled up in heaven and hell.

Arnold’s partner Ford, his transformation is also inexplicable, why does he think this game park is a mistake? Those who can enter the paradise game are all rich people. They kill, rape, looting and finally stand at the top of the pyramid in the game. This is the same as what they do in reality, except that the "evil" they do in the game is more explicit (? ).
I have doubts about whether this game can attract wealthy customers. Because people are unwilling to show the evil they do to themselves, and those with money and power will not do it themselves, so only perverted people are interested. Therefore, a logically unreasonable character "William" is set. .

Young William, according to the standards of a western cowboy film, is still passable, but the old William doesn't know what to call it.
Elder William has repeatedly been in the show for 30 years, so he can be regarded as personally testing his own game. Knowing that the robot's behavior is set, and constantly killing the "dead" robots, just to see the robots behave outside the set settings, and Ford calls it "the journey of self-discovery"... the



plot is very fragmented. The same plot is constantly interspersed in different timelines, and there is a small accident due to the "awakening" of a robot in different timelines in the same region or in the same story in different regions, which makes the writer have to face the necessity of story modification.
In the tenth episode, the fragments that have been repeated before finally let us (maybe) understand the content of the story narrated by the writer.

The western world shown on TV is the same as in movies, books, newspapers and magazines. The scorching sand occasionally circulates into the thirst-quenching river, the faint sound of horseshoes in the desolate valley, I do not know whether it is a fistful or a gold digger, and, from time to time, 堙 is not farming freely. The original owner who was abandoned by God far away-Indians. In this highly imitation world, people can immersively reproduce the killing of real guns and live ammunition in the game.
The so-called high reduction is that the appearance and internal structure of the robots here are extremely close to humans, and they can express the same (close) emotions as humans, and even have specific "memories". The only difference between them and humans is the lack of "greed." .

If this game is just killing, and tourists can complete the level unscathed, it is impossible to attract many gold customers. After all, the funds needed are in front of them-the cost of developing and maintaining it can make the earth an ultra-luxury grave.
Therefore, the writer told me many times, come here, can you rediscover yourself?

I have big doubts about this. What can’t be understood in the real world, can the virtual world be reborn? Isn’t this virtual world repeating the rules of the real world? Isn’t it just that a few people stand in the flesh and blood of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even more people? At the "peak of life"?

The writer seems to have no objection to this question, and he also emphasized, don't believe in humans.
With the world as its cage, the bird has nowhere to escape. Because of "greed", human beings have created an amazing and fascinating material civilization. In order to get more money and power, they will not leave the cage, nor can they understand the robots that they created, why they "want to go out" idea. So, in this game, is it ultimately for the purpose of being a new human being or upgrading, killing all humans, and then copying their "spirit" into the robot body, so that the "human" who loses the physical body can stop their stupid behavior and produce more advanced aspirations?

In view of the shortcomings in the characterization and plot of this play, I tend to think that this is a writer (or director)'s repeated speculation on the conceived story. He wants to try to escape the routine of genre movies and is no longer satisfied with the already highly typified movie. The characters in the western movies (corresponding to the robots in this play), tough guys, beauties, villains, liars, etc., but to create more alive and self-conscious characters, but in the end they are still incapable, only in this In a sense, this drama is the most meaningful.

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Westworld quotes

  • Dr. Robert Ford: The hosts are the ones who are free. Free. Here. Under my control.

  • Dolores Abernathy: [to Stubbs] Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the Beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose. I know things will work out the way they're meant to.

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