On Rotten Tomatoes, I saw this new drama with 97% freshness, 98% likes, and rave reviews. At the same time, the score on IMDB is 9.4. You know, the highest "Game of Thrones" is 9.5.
So, as a viewer with a strong curiosity, I watched the first episode with unclear expectations.
The male protagonist, a programmer, is an unknown engineer during the day, and a hacker who is a hero at night. He has an electronic cemetery in which lies everyone he has hacked. "I wish I went in and found the wrong person, but people always have a way to disappoint me." He watched many sinful secrets sentenced to death, and the horrified eyes when the secret owner was revealed. But he is not a hero, but a socially anxious, reticent, unstable mental state, crying alone at home, relying on drugs to escape pain, and then recording and recalling everything he has done objectively and calmly, doing comprehensively And the grim youth who is ruthlessly self-analyzing.
"...I want to tell you a huge conspiracy, a group of extremely powerful people control the world... They are invisible, people who have decided to play God privately" In the vague black figure, Eliot's clear and gentle words It resounded and began this story about hackers. Network and reality are two worlds, in the play, they are integrated into two sides of one world. The true face that people try to hide on the Internet is their hypocritical side, but at the same time, the true side is hidden behind it. What Eliot wanted to uncover was this whitewashed mask. "For them, it's more painful not to pretend." This sentence came to Elliott's mind, accompanied by irony and contempt.
The title Mr. Robot appeared in the jacket of a middle-aged man in the first episode. His identity was a hacker hermit similar to Elliott's mentor. In him, Elliott found some kind of self-projection. "Everyone is a thief, as long as they are not caught, it is legal income." He said. "The big group has no heart. You have to cut off its hand directly." Mr. Robot, who is mysterious and strangely intelligent, described his magnificent and crazy blueprint to Eliot: clear people's bills and let wealth Reallocate. Excited and nervous, Eliot immediately found the spokesperson of the direct beneficiary—a childhood sweetheart who was under huge study loans and work pressure. In anxiety and wandering, finally decided to join it.
So the question now is, does Mr. Robot really have someone? Did he imagine it by Eliot? This reminds me of a German movie "Who Am I" I watched not long ago. The same protagonist is the genius hacker teenager, and in the end the hackers are really black. Under the guidance of "social engineering", the human operating system was compromised. "The Hacker Corps" also seems to show a tendency to develop in this direction. This is my guess on the plot.
Going back to the line at the beginning of the play, "A group of people who have privately decided to play God." God, what does it mean in this context? First, know everything. The era of big data brought about by network information makes it impossible for everyone online to hide. Then, "God" can be hidden in the terminal and collect all the secrets he needs. Second, dominate mankind. All people act under the instructions of "God". They have no absolute freedom to speak of. "God" is transformed into a puppeteer who controls people's actions. Third, decide life and death. "Decision" may be too much, but through a certain way, "God" can make people push him to the cliff of death in the way he wants, or step by step.
Criticism of the capital system, fascination with individualism, allegory of real life, discussion of virtual reality, restrained and unrestrained, tolerant and deep. In any case, "The Hacker Legion" undoubtedly has a very exciting beginning.
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