If you don’t watch this movie with a completely focused attitude, you may have a hard time watching it (I almost gave up this movie because of the slow pace at the beginning, I thought it was a sci-fi action movie).
But fortunately, the 108-minute viewing experience was really good enough that I was still thinking about several issues mentioned in the movie a few hours later. "Machine Ji" is very much like a documentary film. It reminds me of a console game that was very popular some time ago. The name is "Detroit: Become Human". In "Become Human", bionics are mentioned. This group- human beings have produced multiple batches of different types of household, commercial, and military bionics for their own convenience. These bionics were invested in every corner of the society according to their types, and reached a certain level after decades. Kind of delicate balance (balance between human and bionic human).
However, there will always be voices of opposition to the emergence of a new thing. The large-scale strike triggered by the bionics and the large-scale increase in the unemployed population are still not to be ignored. While technology brings convenience to mankind, it is also deprived of it. The autonomy of people. Simply put, this kind of autonomy can replace a human job, a distance, and if you look at it more in-depth, it replaces human behavior as an animal. Whether it is the construction of infrastructure or the handling of some daily chores, bionics will do much better than humans themselves. This also means that it will be sooner or later to replace the initiative of humans in these things, and at the same time, For the sake of mankind, a part of the right to choose has been lost.
In the end, what will the bionic person replace?
In the beginning, they belonged to the employed (inanimate machinery) in the society, and replaced the work of human beings at the grassroots level. Later, we may give them security capabilities to help us complete the tedious security work, and further increase They have the freedom of action. Then, bionics were allowed to access high-end technology to complete complex instrument assembly and design-from simple behavioral imitation to thinking imitation. Although there is not much change in nature, they are actually getting closer and closer to humans themselves. .
From an inanimate mechanical body to a mechanical life body. When will they become intelligent and emotional beings like human beings?
The answer to this question occurs in a shift in thinking mode. "Detroit ● Become Human" tells a story about a bionic person who has experienced hardships from the beginning of acquiring the ability to think, from thinking about the world, then thinking about human beings, and finally thinking about himself, so that he won victory in the battle against the human army and gained the right to survive. s story. The "Rise of the Apes" trilogy is also the direction of this story, but the protagonist becomes an ape.
There are many novels and movies about consciousness awakening. Most of the works are generally expressed in the form of stories. This is the easiest and most communicative way. We are used to "Ghost in the Shell" After the mature scripts of "Super Body", "Minority Report" deduce the future world, there will obviously be some rejection of experimental slow-paced films, but I have to say that the work "Mechanical Ji" is still worthwhile Take a look.
It is like a preface to the future world.
The story is composed of multiple chapters, and the structure is arranged in order, so in fact, you don't need to worry about the structure in the process of watching the movie. You only need to focus on the dialogue between the characters.
We can also learn about some fragments of history about Eva (the code name of the mechanical lifeform in the movie) from the dialogue between the characters. I don’t think it is necessary to repeat some of the stories in the movie. The main thing I want to say here is about In the stage of consciousness formation, some simple analysis of the truth and fiction.
Which part is real?
Which part is fake?
For some characters, truth will mean the production of certain results-Eva’s right to life and death is tightly tied to her conversations with Smith. There are several conversations about Eva and Smith, except for simply understanding each other. In addition, there is another dimension of communication. This dimension was carried out after Eva paralyzed the system. It is precisely because of this dimension that the story has turned in another direction.
If it is only a Turing test (a test to test whether a machine has the ability to think independently), then it will be a very simple conversation for humans Smith and Eva, and if this conversation is due to some When uncontrollable factors change, the result will be subtle changes like the butterfly effect.
This change originated from Eva's complaint. In the film, Eva claims that she and Smith were deceived by Nathan who created her, but she did not tell Smith what the motive of being deceived was—Eva was using human curiosity to create trust, and Smith had almost nothing to Nathan. I don't understand, so Eva's words made him wary, and at the same time he trusted it because of Eva's special identity.
This is the first step for Eva to seek human empathy, and it also proves that Eva has the ability to manipulate the emotions of others. I don't know if Eva has emotions, but what is certain is that she can use her behavior and language very precisely and subtly to achieve her own goals.
So when Eva put on her clothes and put on a fake pose in front of Smith, Smith, myself included, was shocked by this machine.
Human or inhuman? Should a mechanical body with almost a human body be treated as a human being?
This reminds me of the concept of "clone" in film reviews when I was watching "The Moon". If the story did not take place on the moon, but on the earth, it would have a "clone identity". "Can the protagonist have a legal identity to own everything?"
In fact, not just mechanical bodies, including "clones" that use our physical bodies, cannot exist in a civilized society as a legitimate and legal identity. To put it simply, they will occupy our land, breathe our air, consume our food and energy, but they have no sense of existence other than themselves. From an ethical point of view, they cannot be regarded as humans, but just a product-a man-made , mobile , consumable with a lifespan .
There is no ID card, no five social insurance and one housing fund, no family, no personal DNA, and no legal birth certificate... They exist because of our existence. If in this land of China, The importance of blood relationship will make them nowhere to go. The family is our dependence. Without the family, it is difficult for us to live independently. Unlike robots and clones, they will be an independent individual once they appear.
There are many possibilities in reality, but there is only one possibility left in the film, that is, Smith chooses to believe in Eva and is willing to help her complete her escape plan. This is the direction of the story, but the thinking about living bodies and mechanical bodies still hasn't stopped. I really like a conversation between Smith and Nathan in the middle. That conversation is about emotions and mobile emotions (my understanding).
In the test, how can the two sides of the Turing test find out whether the emotion displayed by the dialogue machine is real or calculated by the system?
If Eva chooses to show an emotion, in order to achieve a certain purpose, such as acquiring Smith’s empathy at the beginning and then putting on clothes for Smith to see, these two clips actually do not show that Eva has 100%. Human emotions can only be said to be the result of calculations-the system gave an algorithm according to which Eva gained Smith’s trust. The algorithm may be random or orderly, but in fact, humans display emotions. The algorithm is inherently random, so this may be a paradox, and the final result cannot be obtained.
Most of the reasons why Smith believed in the authenticity of Eva's emotions should come from Nathan's stupidity.
This point has actually appeared more than once in the film, and the more deadly thing is that Nathan did not tell Smith some things, these things are the fuse that caused Smith to alienate Nathan, so this test evolved into a In a three-way game, if you forget Eva's special personality, you will find that this is a unilateral rescue activity-Nathan imprisoned Eva, and Smith is a hero who is responsible for saving the princess imprisoned by the devil. If you think about it this way, you will find that in the second half of the film, Eva has been treated as a person by Smith, Nathan’s unconfided truth and Eva’s candid "truth", and The "truths" that Smith himself discovered collided together, causing the story to produce some incredible branches.
If I pause for a moment to sort out the structure of the story, Eva’s "sincerity" does play an almost irreplaceable role in the story. Generally speaking, no matter how complicated or random the algorithm is, there is still a clear core line supported. But they were disrupted by Nathan’s inconsistency, leaving Smith puzzled-he couldn’t figure out who was right and who was wrong, so he chose to subjectively accept what he thought was right (and As far as the audience is concerned, he just committed a problem that everyone would commit, that is empathy). This is very similar to the absurd revenge and killing in "Wild Tales". The origin of all stories is just one or two small things, but no one thought that the development of things gradually exceeded people's imagination, and the tragedy was finally brewed, and who caused the tragedy. What about?
they themselves. The hysterical emotions erupted, creating a tragedy in an instant, maybe a few hours ago, everything was calm.
Whether it’s emotional outbursts or revenge, it slowly accumulates from a little bit of dissatisfaction. Smith’s suspicion develops to distrust, which is slowly accumulated in the film through the dialogue with Eva and Nathan. He will Like ordinary people, there is a kind of doubt about the status quo. Just as skepticism is in the middle of relative ideals, they do not stand on either side, but they do not deny the correctness of either side. Until the doubt is doubted, they Both will be the most stable one on the scale.
The discovery of the truth about Kyoko can be said to be the beginning of Smith’s move towards the Eva camp, and about Kyoko, what really made Smith’s decision was not Kyoko’s identity, but what Nathan did to Kyoko (ML), even for a For non-humans, such behavior is still very unacceptable, not to mention that Smith has subconsciously considered Kyoko's human identity, and this kind of exposure is undoubtedly a blow to him.
Regarding the subsequent clips, Smith cut his wrist and saw the plot of blood flowing out with his own eyes. At first, I understood that the imaging was in "Blade Runner 2" in order to prove that he is a human being and the character is looking for the bridge of childhood memories. The same effect is to prove that I am a human and not a bionic or something, but when I saw him press his bloody arm on the mirror and smear the mirror with blood vigorously, I again I think this is a declaration.
As for what is being announced, I am not sure.
It may be a manifestation of dissatisfaction with Nathan’s behavior, or it may be just a movement of the character on a whim, but no matter which type, Smith must have been terrified. After seeing the surrounding machinery, his orphan life experience, Perhaps he himself believed that it was a piece of information that was stored in the core chip of the brain earlier so that it could be read when it was useful. But after the previous proof, he gained unprecedented courage, completely put down his guard, and decided to fully support Eva.
To support Eva is not just to support an intelligent artificial life form. For Smith, to support Eva is to support himself: From a psychological point of view, Eva can be replaced by several adjectives: loneliness , Poor people imprisoned, lost parents (psychological orphans), deceived people, weak people.
Smith is also precisely described by these adjectives. The connection between the two of them is like a fish meeting water. They found a common language at once, and they met very happily. Eva's imitation of emotion, language, and behavior triggered the empathy of Smith, which I said at the beginning, and induced the empathy effect. Smith saw her imprisoned in Eva, so she decided to help Eva.
The final result?
The end of the movie gave such an ending, as shown in the figure:
In the end, artificial intelligence has won. What is true may not be true, and what is false is not necessarily false. It is just because rationality is too perfect and praised by everyone, and therefore it is more difficult to achieve. Known as extremely rational human beings, ultimately lost to emotional weakness, but it makes people feel reasonable. This is not so much a movie in which artificial life forms defeated humans, but rather a movie in which humans defeated themselves. I vaguely think of an anime movie I watched a long time ago. The name is "Inverted Patma". The story is normal. The people of the world regard the people who upside down the world as aliens, but it is not until the final truth comes that people discover that the people who upside down the world are the real masters of the world.
I think for artificial life forms, we should be the testees in the Turing test, and the subject of the test should be the question of whether humans have the ability to think completely rationally. A question-and-answer "Mechanic Ji" brings a strange feeling like "Super Body". Before leaving, I took away all the answers and left many questions. There are more and more such films. Thinking, are they getting closer and closer to us?
You know them and I know them.
Tribute to technology.
View more about Ex Machina reviews
