I recently swiped the film version of "Comment on the Street" twice, and I feel that the rating is a bit too low. If it is completely based on the 95 animation version, it is actually very unfair to the movie version. The animated version is more macro-narrative: in an era where machines can replace various organs and tissues of the human body, the existence of human beings can be diversified. Some people’s organs are replaced by machines, some people’s whole body is mechanical except for the human brain, and some people are changed by machines. All memories since existence, as well as self-aware artificial intelligence, and the fusion of human brain and self-aware artificial intelligence. Trying to define "human" by describing this variety.
In the movie version, these existences in the animation version are reflected, but the movie version is more focused on personal self-exploration. Explore your own existence from the perspective of a woman who retains only her brain but her entire body is mechanically replaced and her memories are modified. In European and American cultures, discussions on human nature have gradually formed a consensus since the Renaissance. So there is less entanglement in the film, but the answer is directly given: We cling to memories as if they define us, but what we do defines us). For an existing existence, the past and experience may not be important. When faced with things, the humane choices made can truly reflect the essence of a person. So in the movie, Dr. Ole will die to save the major, the major will refuse Kusei to harm humans, and the nine lessons will stand on the major's side and fight against the evil company - these are the choices of human nature between interests and human nature, in Western culture It's all too reasonable.
Another point is that the movie does an excellent job of creating an atmosphere that makes you feel that when technology is omnipotent, the perfect appearance and healthy body can be easily obtained. When you really seem to be in such an era, you suddenly feel that perfection is too single and superficial, and instead, you will accept the imperfect but diverse self you are now. Only then did I realize that it is not my mind that is my soul, my entire body is affecting my brain all the time, and the system constructed by my entire body and brain is my soul.
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