The core issue discussed in the film is still an important issue of the science fiction films of that era: where is the future of mankind, how will humans and computers, and artificial intelligence get along? When the film was released that year, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated human chess players. Today, IBM’s Watson has vaguely become one of the most powerful AIs. Now facing this question, humans still have no answer, and the answer to this question is It takes time to witness.
Probably to cater to the mainstream thinking state of the 90s, or the director’s perception is like this, the answer to this question in the film is crude and simple—reject, resist, destroy. The heroine is the most direct proponent of this attitude, and AI The representatives of the scientists even directly trusted it, and even the male lead of the AI automatically "fuzhu" and resolutely obeyed Asimov's three laws of robots. Although I personally cannot agree at all, given that the film was born in 1991, there is really no position to criticize it. In fact, it has done a good job.
In addition, I have noticed two points, which are very interesting:
(1) Thinking about the ideology in the art form of film, the
black wife's words actually persuaded the black people to turn off the computer directly, and gave up such epoch-making research in order to accompany the children. , In order to realize the promise to the child.
This is not wrong, but I still know that this is the mainstream ideology in the United States. To this day, this ideology is still enduring, equal rights for men and women, equal rights for homosexuals, children are innocent and forgivable, and black brothers have rights, etc. The idea of waiting has become the correct ideology that American movies have to promote. These are essentially the same as the "black spots" that our party cannot be refined after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
From this perspective, some of the changes we have now are quite remarkable achievements. I hope that the spiritual outlook of this land will become better. This is my homeland.
(2) Discussion on the topic of "fate".
In addition to artificial intelligence, the movie also introduces the element of time travel, so the topic of fate is repeatedly mentioned in the movie. No fate but what we make becomes the director trying to promote Values. It is man-made, and it is probably one of the creeds of the New World in the United States. The heroine paranoidly believes that her son is extremely important and will be the leader of the resistance in the future. On the one hand, she has become a spiritual pillar to ensure her motivation, on the other hand, she has become the object of the director's ambiguous attitude. Believing what you believe and allowing others to believe what others believe is a better choice than the attitude of the heroine of the film.
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