In addition to unconscious fear, people often frighten themselves. Science fiction, which extracts introspective thinking from this kind of fear, puts on a gorgeous or complicated shell, and is a sheep in wolf's clothing in the literary world.
In the era of the Industrial Revolution, science and technology have brought unprecedented progress. Under the ecstasy of capitalist wealth accumulation, the public's anxiety about the steel giant is also turbulent. Jules Verne embodied this fear as a "mechanical island", a huge steam island called paradise, which is actually a region, and eventually torn apart and sank into the deep sea.
The dependence and sleeplessness that have gradually grown from the tools invented and created due to the incapacity of human beings have tormented the civilized people of all civilized societies for a long hundred years. On this double tormented spiritual vine, blooms called "Asimov's 'Three Laws of Robotics'". The so-called, robots must not harm people, robots should obey all orders of people, and robots should protect their own safety, but must not violate the first and second laws. Under the seamless logic, human beings fear that their position at the top of the pyramid is in jeopardy, just like those emperors in Chinese history with yellow robes.
"The Terminator" appeared in front of the world for the first time. It was a posture of slaughtering human beings with full combat power. Under Schwarzenegger's sculptural muscles, there was a ruthless T-800 steel frame. The success of the film lies in the fact that it holds people's hearts firmly in the form of two dread alliances through nuclear bombs and computers. Under the Cold War mentality, it goes without saying that there is excessive speculation about nuclear weapons, but it is worth playing with, what is the concept of the film's release time in 1984? In August of the same year, IBM launched a new generation of 80286 CPU, 512KB of memory and 20MB of hard disk, and even a selfie could not be sent at the moment.
The era of computer enlightenment with black and white interfaces cannot stop people from being afraid of 2029. Standing in 2015, we don’t take this year seriously, but for people more than half a century ago, the new era beginning with “two” seems to have already set countless abyss for mankind.
In order to alleviate this anxiety, we saw that in "Terminator 2", Schwarzenegger changed from a Terminator to a private bodyguard, working hard and not charging a penny. But that fear was replaced by the new model T-1000 liquid robot. This undead Xiaoqiang robot takes the spirit of Daoism and is as good as water. It makes Schwarzenegger, who is a traditional assembly process under the Western industrial thinking, in a state of embarrassment. Do your best to get a dead end.
Just when people haven't recovered from the joy of celebrating the resolution of the "Millennium Bug", the disaster of 9/11 destroyed this short-lived optimism, but also destroyed the long-term reality and film fear based on the appearance. In front of the collapsed twin towers and broken bodies, people painfully discover that all the fears that have resided in the body of the Cold War for so many years are ridiculous. The Taliban abduction and all kinds of human bombs tell us that the wave of physical The cloud of blood that has been transformed is the tragedy that human beings should really face.
So the long-standing theoretical foundation of the "Terminator" series - Skynet, and its means of destruction - the nuclear bomb, has become another kind of falsehood. It's not that humans are not afraid of the power of nuclear strikes, but relative to this futile worry, the focus of people's inner fear has changed. Instead of worrying about when the monsters sleeping in Siberia or the depths of the Grand Canyon of the United States will wake up, it is better to worry about it. Your next flight.
This is why the "Terminator" series has been gradually marginalized since the third "Robot Awakening". When pseudo-documentaries such as "The Cloverfield File" began to map the 9/11 disaster through monsters, the "Terminator" people But he continued his robot war without reflection. In addition, the aging Schwarzenegger has gradually lost his strength and interest in such films, and being the governor has also become a historical turning point in "Terminator".
However, "I'll be back." is too classic, a prophecy. After the Governor stepped down, he still couldn't produce a decent work. He knew that it was time for "The Terminator" to come back.
However, after the smoke of 9.11, human fear has changed again. During the years when bin Laden was annihilated, although human moon landing technology remained at the level of the Cold War era, since the Bush administration, behind the rise and fall of Nokia, Motorola and Apple, the state-level control in the digital age has become more and more important all over the world. Showing a trend of pervasiveness and magnification, the exposure of the Prism Project highlights the anxiety and fear of the people seeking freedom between the government and the non-government.
Therefore, in "Terminator: Genesis", we see that the biggest evil is no longer the robot itself, even if the foreigners have learned Eastern philosophy and gave the evolutionary version of the liquid robot to the yellow-skinned Li Bingxian. Although we will mumble that Donnie Yen should be hired for this role, the Yankees may stubbornly think that Koreans with tai chi designs as national flags are more in line with the Taoist pursuit of the profound meaning of liquid water.
Leaving aside the last T-1000 that died without a burial, in the film "Chuang", Schwarzenegger, who was originally a symbol of the Terminator, is no longer an enemy, or even a cold-blooded mechanical bodyguard. In the long time line, in addition to giving all the old governor's fans a warm feeling of rejuvenation through CG technology, the Terminator T-800 eventually became the "daddy" of human beings. These walking will make the sound of creaking gears. The big guys are already like "Toy Story". With the growth of the movie-watching generation, they have grown flesh and blood in the alloy steel and have become family members who will never leave.
At the same time, the "growth" or evolution is also the Skynet that came from the 286's. This ancient human nemesis has also been constantly updated, and has basically abandoned the old idea of nuclear bombs destroying human beings.
To destroy you, it is better to control you.
Today, when everyone crosses the road with their mobile phones in their hands, this is really a complete realization of Turing's wisdom.
Our anxiety about mobile internet or information socialization has reached the point where we don’t hesitate to sell our kidneys. We are not afraid of power outages, we are afraid of network disconnection after power outages. We need to frequently shuttle between various big data clouds, share our cheap views, and refresh our thin sense of existence. The whole society keeps amplifying a voice: a person, if he does not exist on social media, then he does not exist.
Before the release of "Genesis", Microsoft released Windows 10 running across devices as scheduled. This operating system that Bill Gates has high hopes for is very similar to the "Genesis" in the movie. Of course, from the current market share, I am More inclined to think that this is a group of computer geeks for the Steve Jobs Apple empire satire.
At the end of the movie, of course, justice defeats evil, Schwarzenegger's version was upgraded, and Skynet failed to complete its "Genesis" product launch in the end. The vision of wanting to unify the universe through mobile phones, tablets, and computers also disappeared.
"I will be back!" This sentence sounds more like the motto of Skynet at the end.
Actually, Comrade Skynet, you can rest your eyes.
Although the virtual evil empire collapsed. But in reality, the audiences who were infected with victory emotions took out their mobile phones, took pictures, shared and waited for various replies from the circle of friends.
People have long been willing to be your slaves.
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