previous words: I think I can only describe this film in a relatively long space, and many thoughts after watching it. It crossed the boundaries of imagination, but always stood on the ground. If anyone who sees this note intends to read on, please excuse its perhaps lengthy. Hopefully, it can touch the light of the movie and not be too dull.
“The story takes place in the distant future, in the years after the ice caps melted due to the greenhouse effect, sea level rise flooded many coastal cities, millions of people were forced to migrate, and hundreds of millions of people in poor countries starved. Other places still maintain a high degree of prosperity."
This is actually a flashback, a prelude to the end of human civilization. Birth and death. Continuous development is accelerating its own demise. This is an embarrassing "paradox". But it is the perfect backdrop for the grand theme of the film. On the scale of the development history of cosmic civilization and earth civilization, there is a story of man and machine.
Humans and Robots - Artificial Intelligence has an epic structure. The original narration told me that the story of this movie is the world many years later. Such a world is an era in which humans use robots on a large scale. In addition to involving the "soul" aspect, robots do everything for people. From home work to ** services.
But now, a professor at a robotics company is eager to build a robot with the ability to love. The key is not that robots love humans, but whether humans love robots or not. It turns out that human love does not exceed boundaries. We can't fall in love with a real robot. Even watching the movie, it's emotionally looking at David as a real boy. This kind of role preset is a typical congenital tragedy.
That's how we've been tortured by Spielberg. Rationally needlessly sympathize with the fate of the robot boy David, but emotionally follows David closely and spends every second.
Why build robots that can love people. This is of course because of human need. Just as we need home washing machines, there are a plethora of robots that replace home work. And the machine lover.
If emotion cannot be paid equally, because it is a robot, it can only be destined to be one-sided, then this invention can only be cruel. The premise at the beginning is the "love" of the nature of consumer goods,
It can be acquired without blood, and it can also be discarded. At Cybertronics in New Jersey, the professor who is mainly engaged in this work is in need himself, and there is only a hint of evidence in the film. Because when David found him, the professor looked at David's eyes, which was very telling. It was permeated with the emotion of a father. The reason that motivates the behavior is the motivation. Commercial interests are to solve the shortcomings of childless families and seek benefits. But this professor may have longed for David with the face of an angel.
Anyway, David was born and into Monica's family. Monica is a mother with a sick son. This mother made a painful choice when her son had no hope of recovery and could not be by her side, and opened David's "love". She became David's lasting ideal motivation. According to the password set by the machine company, Monica became David's mother, and the emotional David called "Mummy".
There is an initial distancing and communication in between. But this is just a temporary consumption of human emotions and a cameo of an object.
But what I want to stress is that love in movies is an extremely vague concept. You can understand it as an emotional need, or you can understand it as a simple caring concern. Just like the dialogue with David when the dancer Joe stopped David from going to Manhattan at the end of the world to continue looking for the Blue Fairy: Only human beings believe in this (Blue Fairy), maybe it is just to inspire the mind of artificial intelligence, and human beings hate us.
David said, there has never been a person like me, Martin is a real person, and so am I. When I become a real person, Mommy will go to bed and tell me stories, listen to me, and sleep with me. Say she loves me a hundred times a day.
But Dancer Joe's words are not sentimental, and point to the truth: She loves what you do for her, as I do for my guests. She doesn't love you, David. She can't love you either. You are not flesh and blood, you are not a cat, a dog or a bird, you are a robot just like us. You will be abandoned because they are tired of you. Or replace you with a newer model. Or dissatisfied that you said the wrong thing or broke things. Let's not be too smart and too fast. There are too many. Their mistakes made us suffer.
"The end of the world is coming, and only us will be left." David went on to say goodbye. This is a big clue. Humans have enough reasons to believe that robots are more "living" than humans. The so-called end of the world is actually the end of mankind. The world is far longer than human history, both in the beginning and in the end. The humans in the middle have become passers-by, but the by-products of human civilization are left behind as physical traces that record human emotions and cellular memories. Every word of Qiao is the accumulation of human wisdom, especially the wisdom of epistemology. He knows his world and himself, and this intelligence is artificial, "AI".
This is the biggest misconception about love. Yes, superficial love is obvious and can be denied. Such as eyes half closed, body temperature rise, shortness of breath. These are just outward manifestations. And what about the stimulation that love brings to the brain? Scholars who study psychology have finally found a brain doctor. When the two study things together, they are acknowledging the fact that human emotion and consciousness are still material and exist in material form. Love is certainly not just a few physical symptoms. But "love" is definitely not something that is too divine to be inconceivable. We still perceive love in terms of physical comfort, pleasure. This comes from caring for caring. We are the flesh that is the root of everything.
What is the difference between a robot with real emotional ability and a human? The difference may only be that this emotion is not complete, and the details are not perfect. When the robot is manufactured to the atomic level, maybe the robot is no different from the human. Emotions are nothing but brain and body reactions. In fact, this ethical boundary has not been broken, and still retains the emotional laws of people's most causative reasons. Dancer Joe's lines are deeper than the most insightful philosopher. Do you think this is not the case with robots, and real people with real people? At best, there are more constraints on the ethical part of human culture and the continuation of animal instincts. It’s just that we don’t want to think about it, and we don’t want to think about human nature as fragile. In fact, real relatives in this real world also kill each other. That extreme performance is the deepening of the essence of human nature.
Acknowledging human nature is neither shameful nor pessimistic. Because the high-level rendering is often due to other needs.
People are less likely to fall in love with the living people with whom they live. Love is still about one's own emotional experiences, physical responses, and what the other person projects on you. Originally, they were two different bodies with their own objective existence.
Finally Monica abandoned David. Because she doesn't need him anymore. She couldn't love him either. Between David and his own biological children, he was finally unable to get along peacefully and steadily. Despite the efforts of the real person, the story of the puppet can only be a motive to inspire the soul. rather than pure incentives. I have to say, this scene brought tears to my eyes. The performance of this little actor has the demeanor and capacity of an actor. He has to be a real human being in order to be able to receive love and to be eligible for the "love" of human beings.
David begins to face the world alone. He has embarked on a journey of return, and now he must find clues on his own.
"Robots and Humans" - the next part. It is the perception world of the robot. I think the film is about "robots and people" positively. The side is "Man and Robot", which is a story about the emergence of robots in the human world. It was recorded by David's eyes, and by David himself.
The setting of David Love is very unfair. Changes cannot be reversed once they begin. This is also one of the reasons for abandonment.
In this world, dilapidated robots escaping from being captured and destroyed communicate with each other and drift away from each other. In this part, the audience's emotions enter the role of the robot's protagonist.
Various robots were "slaughtered". The scene is violent and bloody. Countless people watched, and the robots were slaughtered. Among them, there is the woman who first appeared, a purely emotionless robot woman. The robots locked in the cage are fragmented and incomplete.
Why should this group of fanatical anti-robots let robots bear the bitter fruit of human beings?
In the middle of the killing field, it is a natural climax to destroy David. There was an audience in the audience who said that the robot would not beg for mercy? Why not? The robot with the lights in the first few minutes begged for mercy. The point is, just because this is a child? Just before, when the little girl dragging the teddy bear called her father to test whether David was a real boy, he said, "No one makes a robot child, never, what's the use?" He
escaped Afterwards, in the dark forest, the giant moon stared at them. The ideal guide, towards the discovery of the moon, to Yandu. Go to Dr. Jack of all trades.
Looking for blue fairies is an ideal behavior of human beings. But it has become one of the means to test the emotional ability and human nature of robots. Clues are left everywhere to guide David's reasoning and searching. There is a mysterious force pulling him. But when the answer was revealed, it made me fall into the abyss. Those few poem-like sentences have the meaning of ancient Greek mythology and epic. In the knowledge base of Dr. Know-it-all, about the blue fairy and becoming a real person, it is just a foreshadowing buried by Professor Allen Harpy.
"come away O human child
to the waters and the wild
with a fairy hand in hand
for the world`s more full of weeping
and than you can understand
your quest will be perilous
yet the reward is beyond price" (The real boy, over Mountains and seas, hand in hand with fairies. The world is sad, then you will understand. Your reward is beyond value)
There is pessimism in the movie. From the greatness of human civilization - the ability to reflect. In fact, I think, if it were all Kubrick's, the movie would probably just stop there. without really getting into my heart. I think there is really no need to revisit and disseminate this understanding of the fate of this civilization to the public. It is only suitable for a few people to watch and bear the despair of silence.
David returned to his birthplace. who said it? To know oneself, a person must not only face the future, think about the present, but also go back to the past, so as to know oneself thoroughly. He finally had a clear idea of where he came from. Filled with countless Davids, as well as a human-shaped mold. When the first David posted in, he saw the vague impression of the sculpture, the first object left in his memory.
Professor Allen said we only intervened once, through the knowledge of Dr. Let David find his way home. Know what you need to know to get home.
It's painful, but necessary. He is indeed a real robot kid and can't possibly turn into a real boy. It is impossible not to recognize the wisdom that AI has given him. It's just that he has human emotions, so even if he is no longer unique, even after jumping into the water, he will not change his original intention.
So David jumped off the high platform, turned his back to the sculpture of the Blue Fairy in Manhattan, and fell into the deep sea. David falls, and in the montage, the superimposed figure looks like a tear on Joe's face.
David was underwater when he discovered the trail of the blue fairy under the sea. And that's just a playground. When rescued by Joe, he still said excitedly that he had found it. Believing in myths, believing in the fairy tales of little puppets, these are the characteristics of man, he has, he is serious and does not give up. Unfortunately, Joe, who had been with him through many trials at this time, was arrested. When Joe and David parted, he said: I am, I was.
They parted. David was flying an amphibious plane and sank to the bottom. The light hit the blue fairy's face strongly, so gentle and beautiful, smiling at David without words. He prayed to the blue fairy, and kept praying. Until the demise of mankind, the bottom of the water was also frozen. This scene reaches the pinnacle of aesthetics, and the aesthetic climax in the film makes unstoppable emotions pour out. I can't tell the joy or sorrow, and I can't tell the taste in my mouth.
If it ended like this, it would still be a clichéd ending. This half-hope and half-desperate method of hanging in the air, one more is not much, and one less is not a lot. I can't say it's bad, but I can't say it's good either.
The film continues, turning over an unfamiliar page. Turn again at a very high place, leading to an unknown height. The narration sounded again.
Two thousand years later, everything has changed. It was a civilization from another world that rescued David from the frozen bottom. That's what we're used to calling aliens. Aliens are benevolent and advanced civilizations, hoping to make David happy. They collectively fulfilled David's millennial wish. Gave David a good day.
The angle of the movie makes people feel uncomfortable all the time, and this uncomfortable ending has not disappeared. In fact, it is not uncomfortable to be disillusioned with ideals and search for ideals. The sad part is that I've always understood the unspoken rules of the movie, yes, a robot boy can't be a real boy anyway. Then, it is impossible for him to return to his mother's side. The main line is like this, you hold despair and look forward to a miracle. And in the end, instead of a miracle, another fantasy was given. I think this may be a touch of warmth in the movie. It gave me a little warmth to resist in addition to the countless chilling pictures.
From the family, and finally back to the family. Originally it was humans who gave robots a dream. In the end, high-tech creatures from alien planets give robots a dream, although it is not perfect.
This film, perhaps only until we really face such a world, can we be silent. But maybe there is no need to wait for it to arrive. After a few years, many people will suddenly remember that it is so relevant to the future of mankind. What it tells is about love, about robots, about the disappearance and demise of civilization.
There is pessimism in the movie. From the greatness of human civilization - the ability to reflect. In fact, I think, if it were all Kubrick's, the movie would probably just stop there. without really getting into my heart. I think there is really no need to revisit and disseminate this understanding of the fate of this civilization to the public. It is only suitable for a few people to watch and bear the despair of silence.
Stella's light flashes in the ending, in every detail. It's always a human movie. A film with idealism, in the face of predictable disillusionment, gives the ending left by the traces of civilization, how in line with human nature. Don't take it as a departure from Ku's, that is the best way to make up for each other. Such a contradictory style reflects the cognition and perception deposited in the film, which directly refers to the fusion of science and philosophy. What about other robots? The ending is unknown.
"I exist, I used to exist." This is not only the words of the robot dancer Joe, it belongs to the extinction of all human beings, and the traces of civilization witness the existence of human beings. Humans hate the robots they made, but robots, in another sense, continue human beings, and prove the existence of human beings with the record of the little boy David. Oh, and there's a lock of Monica's hair in the collection of the cute old super toy teddy bear.
Why Robot Kids and Human Mothers? What a great and sad symbol this is. David carries the perplexing propositions of man himself. Humans or robots, it didn't matter at that time, human mothers and robot children could love each other well.
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