Fate, human nature, free will, detachment... Never before has a science fiction movie contained so many profound philosophies
Twenty years ago, the TV station released a documentary called "Science Fiction Movies and Future Times", introducing many classic sci-fi movies (many of them were still new at the time). This documentary can be regarded as my sci-fi enlightenment, and I have watched it several times with the rebroadcast of the TV station. A few episodes are quite good, such as the three episodes introducing Star Wars; there are also a few episodes that are not so good, such as the episode titled "Quick Blade Chaser and Modern Futurology" which is terrible. In the more than ten minutes of plot editing, the nagging characters and the always dark scenes make it difficult to figure out what is acting. But the dark night sky, the damp and grotesque dilapidated city, and the avant-garde setting of the "copy man" are impressive. Later, I learned that this style was originally called "cyberpunk", and this "Blade Runner" is the famous "Blade Runner", a sci-fi masterpiece that was underestimated by me and by many people. .
Future-Doomsday-Hell: The Fate of Mankind
The scene of the film is set in Los Angeles in the near future in 2019. This filthy and greasy city shrouded in darkness, rainy all day long, is like Sodom in the Bible, full of sin, decadence and death. The coquettish light of neon lights, the huge video screen playing brainwashing advertisements day after day, the tops of the stalagmites-like gloomy buildings spewed flames and exhaust gas from time to time, and the shuttle flying cars neighed briefly through the endless night. The dead silence, and quickly fell into dead silence... The whole city showed its pathological existence like the convulsions of a dying person.
Maybe because of the new world war, maybe it was a cataclysm. Los Angeles and the earth on which it is located have been abandoned by civilization. Most of the people who expect good health have moved to the "extraworld colony" in outer space, leaving only The next large group of freaks, old, weak, sick and disabled, lingered in this huge garbage dump. But the city also has decent premises. A huge pyramid stands tall in the center of the city. With the surrounding low and dilapidated buildings, this building is extremely magnificent. Its owner, Tyrell, which monopolizes the technology of "replicating people", looks down on the people under it like the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, always reminding them that the ruler will never leave.
Here, the sense of distance between the "external colonies" and the deserted capital of the earth, the contrast between the pyramids and the poor streets, hope and despair, dominance and slavery, constitute a distinct duality, and outline a future shrouded in apocalypse—— Mankind, withered from body to soul, was abandoned by God on a desolate planet waiting for the inevitable judgment. Despair wipes out the enterprising spirit and creativity of human beings, and they even lose the ability to communicate and communicate with each other. In a state of extreme numbness, indifference, and self-enclosure, human beings live like walking dead, losing the meaning of existence.
The poorer, the more we must grab; the weaker, the more we must oppress. Enslavement and killing have become the only way for human beings to show their little sense of superiority.
As a result, Taylor Corporation created a "copy person" that can be enslaved by humans. In order to suppress the possible rebellion of the copy person, the police also created a special agent "Blade Runner" who specializes in the execution (euphemism, "retirement") of the copy person. (Blade runner). With the completion of the huge pyramid, a new kind of slavery was established. Human beings are like tyrants who are dying and old, until the moment of dying, they still have to hold the shackles and whips in their hands, ready to let the slaves die with him at any time.
This is an out-and-out hell. This is true for both humans and the "copy people" they create.
Escape-Fight-Survive: Crimes and Punishments of "Copying People"
What is a "copy person"? In the film, they are the crystallization of advanced genetic technology, a human clone with free will, advanced intelligence, and a strong physique that exceeds the limit of human strength.
What is a "copy person"? Humans believe that they are just "talking tools." Because they have free will and can exert stronger subjective initiative, clones can think, act, and be more useful than robots. With such a perfect and powerful tool, how can they always bow their heads and obey orders without failing, committing chaos, or even replacing humans? Taylor Corporation considered this problem at the beginning of the design. They left a back door for the replicator's product: the product life span is only 4 years, and the product will be scrapped as soon as it reaches the limit, in case they have enough time to form a complete personality and thus possess Sound humanity.
"Humanity" is the authoritative standard for distinguishing between humans and cloners: cloners do not have a sound "humanity", so they can only be regarded as tools.
"Humanity" is also the law for human beings to permanently enslave clones: clones do not have sound "humanity" because humans do not allow them to possess it.
Problem occurred. If a cloner suddenly possesses "humanity", is he qualified to become a human being?
The problem is solved. Humans will not perform such tests on known clones, and he will never have the opportunity to prove himself. Even if there is such a test, and assuming that a copy person passes the test, it does not prevent him from being scrapped after the 4-year use period, because the program design is immutable. Therefore, from the hardware level, whether a tool that can only be used for 4 years has "humanity" has no special meaning to the user.
After human beings’ meticulous design at the theoretical level and the black-box operation at the practical level, the tool attributes of the duplicators seem to be unbreakable, and they have no way of overcoming this man-made innate deficiency.
However, what exactly is a "copy person"? The copyist asked himself the same. The complacent original design of human beings cannot stop the copyists from making their own modifications. Because free will tells them that what you are depends on what you want to be.
They thought, they acted.
Six clones rioted in the outer space colony. Four of them successfully hijacked a spacecraft to the earth and infiltrated Los Angeles. There seems to be further action. Humans were extremely frightened by this resistance, and the police immediately activated a "Blade Runner" Deckard to carry out an obliteration operation against the clones. In the darkness and gloom, these copyists made different choices. However, their fate is the same by different routes.
The first clone executed by Dickard was called Zhora, and she took an evasive attitude towards the pursuit of humans. Zola is in a striptease nightclub and is engaged in a humble erotic show. When Dickard cross-examined her under the guise of a social rights organization, Zola seemed to have no complaints about this situation. Obviously, this clone designed according to the killer model has long changed the limits of the program. Now she just wants to live a free and peaceful life, she wants nothing else.
Even so uncontested, there is still no escape. Deckard executed the obliteration relentlessly, but Zola was shot dead on the way to escape. What’s interesting is that Zola’s show in the nightclub is "Dancing with the Snake". In the "Bible", it was a snake that tempted Eve to steal the forbidden fruit. This gave mankind wisdom and the "original sin". . Here, the snake is a metaphor: For copyists, the awakening and perfection of human nature is their "original sin".
For the punishment of "original sin", God even exalted his noble hand, but if he was expelled from the Garden of Eden, he could still live his life in the world. But human beings must rush to kill them all. Behind the cold-blooded lies the extreme weakness and depravity of "human nature."
In this round, on the moral level, humans have already lost.
After witnessing Zola dying innocently on the street, Leon, the second cloner, was furious, and he directly adopted a violent confrontation against humans. This clone is designed to be an interstellar porter who can work without sleep for several weeks without feeling tired. He grabbed Deckard and slapped him. Where was his opponent, the latter was immediately spanked and peeed. If it wasn't for someone to rescue Leon and kill Leon with a shot, Decade would have died. Ironically, it was not a human who killed Leon, but another clone. Compared with Zola's passive evasion, Leon's frontal confrontation went one step further. He proved with his fists that in the face of the power of copying humans, although humans tried their best, they were really vulnerable.
In this round, at the level of strength, mankind lost another city.
Since then, Deckard traced to the residence of the genetic engineer Sebastian and killed Pris, the third replicator who was disguised as a genetic doll. Paris is a pure entertainment product designed to be used by humans. Her innocent and innocent disposition like a baby makes her always full of curiosity about the human world.
The movements of her wrestling with Decade looked like juggling and gymnastics, as if playing a game. Deckard's bullet easily tore her youthful body, but the fallen Paris did not slumped to death. She bounced frantically like an out-of-control clockwork toy, waving her limbs in the void, as if trying to catch the last trace of life breath; she screamed in vain, which was the final release of enthusiasm for life vitality, like fireworks The last moment before the dazzling brilliance. This instinctive will to life is like the sun to zombies, making human beings feel ashamed of dying.
In this way, at the level of vitality, mankind is also willing to bow down.
Comprehension-Salvation-Transcendence: A Profound Monologue of Life to Death
While the "Blade Runner" is hunting down the clones, the clones are also pursuing their goals. The goal of Roy, the leader of the clones who fled from the outer space colony, is to find his creator, the founder of Taylor's, and ask him about the possibility of life extension. As the latest generation of Nexus-6 replicator, Roy has a perfect mind and body, and is a natural leader. His four-year life is far from being able to contain his ambitions.
However, when Taylor told him that the set procedure could not be changed, the fire of hope in Roy's heart was ruthlessly extinguished, and he had no future. Unable to accept the facts, Roy squeezed the Creator to death with his own hands, as if squeezing an aluminum kettle. However, at the moment of the killing, Roy seemed to realize something.
When Deckard followed, Roy did not run away, nor did he counterattack. Of course he could not be killed. He just used his talent and supernatural power to easily disarm the "Blade Runner" and rebel against the guest. Instead, Deckard was caught in the dilemma of being chased, teased, and nowhere to escape.
When he was exhausted and about to fall, Roy made an unexpected move-he grabbed Deckard's arm. Saving mankind, this is the qualification that God has, and now it has been done by a cloner!
Before the terrified and trembling poor killer, this god-like existence sat down and began his famous confession before death:
"You humans cannot believe what I have seen.
I witnessed the warship burning on the edge of Orion.
I saw C-rays passing through the'Gate of Don Wise' across the dark universe.
However, all of this will eventually disappear without a trace in the torrent of time.
Like tears disappearing in the rain...
Death has come. "
Is it a tribute to the splendid bloom of short but abundant life? Is it a sigh of eternal death that swallows everything? Or is it the peace and calmness of life facing death?
Heidegger pointed out that as long as he has not died, he is alive in the direction of death. The life of this being runs through the entire process of death, which is a form of existence that precedes death. In this process of dying, people can truly feel the strong sense of self-existence, and they are "present" in this process of dying. Therefore, compared with the result of death, the process of death is more authentic and real.
Everything in the universe has an end. In the endless river of time, each life is just experiencing the process of death. It seems that giving life to death a special meaning is more worth thinking about than how old you can live.
Roy understood.
In the heavy rain as noted, the leader of the clones died for a long time. At the last juncture of his life, his spirit finally got rid of the shackles of his flesh, just like the white dove in his hand, flying away from the gravity of the earth to the sky. There is a vast and boundless world, enough to house his restless soul.
Roy has reason to be proud. Because the creation of mankind finally surpassed mankind in an all-round way, copying humans no longer need to let others define their own destiny.
Humans should be more proud. Because these perfect creations will realize an unfinished future that transcends human destiny and re-create a free and prosperous country.
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