At the end of the story, you will know who I am.

Oran 2022-03-18 09:01:02

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In 1981, Hilary Putnam proposed a thinking experiment called "Brain in a Tank" in his book "Reason, Truth, and History." In a container that can keep the brain alive, and connected to a computer, the computer will transmit various information to the brain to simulate all the daily states. All the feelings that the brain perceives are arranged by the computer, so whether the brain You can realize that you are living in virtual reality.

This experiment explores the question of what is real, whether the phantom you feel or the cold outside world of the container. The richness of the philosophical propositions contained in this experiment has influenced the creation of many subsequent film and television dramas, but Hillary did not What I know is that as early as 1968, a science fiction literature actually interpreted this experiment of its own, that is, Philip Dick's classic work "Does a Bionic Man Dream of an Electronic Sheep?" 》

Philip Dick’s novel depicts a future world that is both true and illusory. A twisted world in which humans live less and less like humans, and bionics live more and more like humans. A police officer takes over the hunt for a bounty. The characters of bionic humans have experienced various events that have subverted their three views. In addition to the pessimistic mood of human destiny and the insinuation of reality (the moon landing in those years), the novel explores a theme of "how to be a person" Each and every one of the bionics is like the "brain in the tank" mentioned above, looking for the meaning of their own existence, while also breaking through the original boundaries of human relations.

In 1982, Ridley Scott adapted this classic science fiction novel into the ever-lasting sci-fi masterpiece "Blade Runner." A simpler story is extracted on the basis of the uncomplicated original work, which interprets a very grand theme in a philosophical sense in a small visual format. It has both dazzling visual spectacles and poetic directorial expression. The Greek music master Van Geli The joining of Sis gave the film an ethereal and charming temperament.

Of course, what I personally is most obsessed with is the extreme loneliness created by the film, and it may also be the biggest reason why I can watch this film repeatedly. As an audience with fairly good reading volume, what I care about after watching sci-fi movies is not the depth of scientific theory, but the temperature that the story brings to me. In my opinion, sci-fi stories with warmth are great, "Silver "Wing Killer" is worthy of the word "great".

The biggest adaptation of "Blade Runner" to the original book is not the structure and story logic, but the protagonist Decade. In the original book, he is a down-and-out bounty hunter with a wife who takes risks in order to buy a real animal collar. He has also suspected in the middle. He exists, but he is a human loser after all. In the movie, Dekad is portrayed as a seemingly elite blade runner. He had a marriage and lived as a bachelor. But at the end of the story, we discover In fact, he is also a bionic person. Of course, this ending is only presented in Ridley's director's cut version, but this also shows that Ridley's purpose in telling this story is that he wants to really blur the line between humans and bionics.

But in fact, having said so much, what I want to talk to you about today is of course "Blade Runner 2049".

To be honest, after watching the zero-point field of "Blade Runner 2049", my whole person was dumbfounded, and my legs were soft. 162 minutes is almost the limit of the movie-watching length for me, especially For the premiere of Zero Point. But this time, the movie-watching experience can be said to be unforgettable for a lifetime. The last time I had this kind of movie-watching experience that held my breath and didn’t dare to blink my eyes was Nolan’s "Dunkirk". I really didn’t expect " "Blade Runner 2049" brought me so much space for shock and aftertaste, and even gave me the illusion that my previous life was just waiting for this movie to appear.

"Blade Runner 2049" is a genuine sequel full of tribute and re-creation of the previous work. It is also an original work based on the original world view, but in the final analysis, this is also a nearly perfect artwork. Villeneuve’s narrative magic, Roger Dickins’ lens language combined with Ridley’s deep philosophy, coupled with Hans Zimmer’s tribute to Vangelis’ soundtrack, four god-level figures in the film industry collide with each other A great spark has been wiped out. For such a film that can circulate for a hundred years, the box office of the film really does not matter.

Like the original, "Blade Runner 2049" also tells a very simple story, a story about "hunting". This story happened 30 years after the previous work. Taylor, the company that produced the bionics, went bankrupt due to riots. The old bionics also suffered an unprecedented genocide crisis, and a man named Wallace buried bankruptcy. Taylor's company began to develop new types of bionics, creating a society where humans and bionics live together. Of course, these new types of bionics are still in the slavery of humans, but they have gained a small "freedom."

Officer K is a bionic blade killer. During a hunting mission, he found a skeleton left under a dead tree. This skeleton belongs to a female bionic person. The strange thing is that this skeleton has a pregnancy. Mark of. In order to ensure social order, K’s human female boss asked K to find the child born by the female bionic and destroy it, so K started investigating the child’s whereabouts.

Due to the blackout in 2022, K’s investigation was in great difficulty, but he still found a lot of clues, but he also gradually discovered that the child had inextricably linked with himself, and that The child's parents are Decad and Rachel who fled 30 years ago. At the same time, Wallace, who was obsessed with his identity as the creator and hoped that his bionic works could be fertile, sent his hand Laf, hoping to find the whereabouts of the child by monitoring K's whereabouts.

In this way, police officer K and his holographic girlfriend embarked on a journey of searching for the truth, and K was also finding his soul step by step.

In fact, in my opinion, the story of "Blade Runner" tells the story of how a lonely soul finds its kind and awakens, while the story of "Blade Runner 2049" is another lonely soul who finds his own emotions. The story of identity and identity, the director let us the audience experience the new lifestyle of the future world with Officer K, played by Ryan Gosling, while also experiencing the subtle emotional changes of this character.

Different from the narrative of "Blade Runner" which uses events as the entry point, "Blade Runner 2049" uses characters as the entry point, depicting the life of a bionic police officer in a large length, and a large part of the future world is displayed. It’s amazing, and the emotional rendering of K and his holographic girlfriend is even more magical. His emotional line is also a very important level of the character, and this love story between the bionic man and the holographic image is also quite moving by the director. .

I don’t want to reveal too much about the plot later. It is better for you to experience the plot reversal several times.

Villeneuve continued his slow pace and calm narrative this time, unhurriedly showing the future world in his heart, the atmosphere is as repressive as always, the dialogue is as concise as always, and the emotions are as restrained as always. But the explosion of each story point has the dramatic tension of thunderbolt. Villeneuve can be said to have meticulously crafted every link of this movie so that every punch of his own hits the audience's heart.

It is worth mentioning that, under the treatment of Villeneuve, the last climax scene even though the visual pattern is so small, it brings the kind of "black clouds overwhelming the city to destroy" momentum.

And another very big selling point of the film is the return of Harrison Ford. After "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", he once again played a father who loves his child deeply, but everyone can rest assured that the ending is not. It will be as miserable as in "The Force Awakens", because in the final analysis, even though Villeneuve’s oppressive audiovisual filled the whole movie, "Blade Runner 2049" still has a tear-jerking warmth, and Harrison The tacit understanding between the characters of Ford and Ryan Gosling became the toughest and softest part of the movie.

Of course, the film is excellent thanks to Roger Diggins’s god-level photography. The enchanting light and shadow effects from the beginning to the end still retain the original film noir temperament. A large number of backlit silhouettes are beautiful, and the panning lens is in fine art. Under the cooperation, it is full of ritual and religious meaning, and my favorite is the fighting scene of the two generations of Blade Runners in the abandoned ballroom in the second half of the film, the holographic image of the jam, the flickering light, the whole scene The visual experience is quite sensational, completely surpassing the backlit fight in the Shanghai building in "007 Skyfall Crisis".

Finally, I still want to say that the end of "2049" is too sad and so beautiful, and it does not lose the monologue at the end of Roy in the previous game.

Time to die.

· THE END · This is the 494th issue of "Will Not Disperse", and I feel sorry for our commander.

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Blade Runner 2049 quotes

  • Niander Wallace: [to Deckard] You do not know what pain is yet. You will learn.

  • Rick Deckard: What's the plan?

    'K': We don't run.