After the natural resources are exhausted, the best result that mankind can produce by developing science and technology in order to survive is to imitate nature-to cultivate protein bugs to replace food, and to develop clones to replace humans in high-risk, overweight, and Work that is contrary to human relations... But it still cannot save most people from a messy, materially and spiritually impoverished life.
The male protagonist K, as an N8 replicator, has two more characteristics than an N6 replicator: implanted memories and unrestricted lifespan. These designs allow him to give emotional feedback like a person, have more stability, and be better enslaved by others. But this design that looks human and inhuman is itself a paradox. It highlights the ambition and cruelty of human beings on a certain level: human beings should be the gods of the world, create life, give them reason and emotion, but do not give them freedom. .
K looks so lifeless, and the meaning of his existence is to work around people's needs. He is not allowed to be angry, and has to be tested from time to time to prove his stability, otherwise he will usher in advance of his only ending as a copyist and be destroyed.
Through K, we can get a glimpse of the living state of the duplicator, who is not respected by others, and is full of doubts about the existence of the self. On the way from get off work, K is often publicly scorned by irrelevant people because of his identity as a copy. When he climbed the chaotic and crowded stairs back to his cramped and empty home, the only person who accompanied him and cared him was the artificial intelligence Joey. The characteristics of Joey's non-physical and accompanying artificial intelligence make this warmth of the family smeared with a sense of falsehood.
This situation was finally reversed when K learned that the clone had bred a new life and that he was likely to be the child of a miracle. He may be a person born out of childbirth rather than manufacturing, with parents, memories that truly belong to him, and a future where he can freely choose, be respected and loved. He began to verify his memory, looking for Dyke, trying to unravel the cause of all the things that bothered him.
K finds Dyke and can uncover the secret that has been in the dust for a long time, but Wallace's people suddenly appear, take Dyke and destroy Joey. The copyist rebel army told him the ending he was searching for but unwilling to accept: the son of miracle was a girl, and he was just a pawn to confuse her. After losing the identity of Joey, who was in love with him, and the identity of a functioning copy, K completely lost hope.
The clone rebels ordered K to kill Dyke. K, who had never had the right to choose, made his own decision this time, saving Dyke and bringing him to his daughter. K stayed alone on the steps of the research institute, looking up at the snowflakes to calm down on himself. The way K catches snowflakes reminds me of Joey catching raindrops with his hands for the first time, and there is also a gentleness that praises life. K sits slowly on the steps and lifts his shirt to look at his wounds, calmly greeting death and taking him away from this unfortunate life.
If human beings and artificial intelligence can be regarded as human beings and generally belong to intelligent life, and they are included in the big chain of human emotions, Joey is obviously at the bottom of the artificial intelligence. She doesn’t even have a physical body. She loves K. In order to meet him and satisfy him, she would rather ask a prostitute to come and attach her to her body and make love with K; in order to follow K and protect her from being tracked for her own sake, she would rather take the risk and let K destroy her own cloud. All the data is sent to the mobile display in K's hand. It was her decision not to fear the consequences that gave her a future of her own choice like a person, even if this life is short, there will be no trace of existence after disappearing.
Compared with the first multiple use of Japanese elements to create a sense of cyberpunk, the use of Korean elements in "2049" cannot be said to be a wise move. Because of the accumulation of impressions of Japanese elements used in works such as "Ghost in the Shell", Japanese elements have a strong impression connection with cyberpunk, but the use of Korean elements in "2049" is superficial and not impressive. Such a change only makes people feel that South Korea’s economic and cultural status in Asia has improved, and it does not contribute to the film’s own effects.
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