High-energy spoilers ahead!
High-energy spoilers ahead!
High-energy spoilers ahead!
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The Uncanny Vally is a hypothesis about how humans feel about robots and non-human objects. It was proposed in 1969. It explains how humans respond to robots when they resemble humans beyond a certain level. It will suddenly become extremely disgusting, even if there is a little difference between the robot and the human being, it will be very conspicuous and dazzling, so the whole robot has a very stiff and terrifying feeling, just like facing the walking dead. Among them, the term "Uncanny Valley" was proposed by Ernst Jentsch in his 1906 paper "The Psychology of the Uncanny Valley", and his views were elaborated in Freud's 1919 paper "The Uncanny Valley", thus becoming a famous theory , the first robot is named WLH.
This is where the title of the film comes from. The story itself draws on the structure of "Shutter Island" and "Rashomon", that is, deliberately hides the true perspective, and leaves it to the audience to judge by themselves in the chaotic information of several characters with different opinions, but this time it is not the mentally ill who will be found out. Or a criminal, but an artificial intelligence, so the "uncanny valley effect" becomes its main point of stimulation.
Joy, a female reporter from a well-known science and technology magazine, was ordered to go to a research facility to conduct a week-long exclusive interview with a scientist named Adam. After meeting the amazingly intelligent, pretentious Adam and his shy introverted but equally talented assistant David, Joy questions the significance of this overly lengthy interview. Under Joy's inquiry, Adam finally revealed the truth. It turned out that David was the artificial intelligence he made! Joy was deeply shocked, because when he communicated with David before, he didn't notice any difference in him.
As the interview progressed, Joy was more and more shocked by David. Although his emotions and the game with Adam are still a little clumsy, they are real and there is no doubt. At the same time, Joy gradually fell in love with Adam, who has both high IQ and emotional intelligence, and joined him on the last day of the interview. Just when Joy was immersed in the bright future of both love and career, David suddenly broke out, "killed" Adam, and revealed the ultimate truth to Joy: in fact, he was the real maker, and Adam was created. robot. They swapped identities to test whether a very professional expert really couldn't tell them apart.
The withdrawn and autistic David is a genius. He doesn't ask about the world, he devoted himself to the research of artificial intelligence, and finally created Adam. Unlike David, Adam's IQ and EQ are superior, and it can even be said that as a "human being", he is more perfect than David. In the process of this experiment, David gradually fell in love with Joy, but he lacked experience in interacting with people and could not express his feelings correctly. On the contrary, Adam, who was an artificial intelligence, finally captured the heart of the heroine. The embarrassed David therefore stored his semen in Adam's body to impregnate the heroine, and destroyed his creation at the last moment when the experiment was about to succeed, revenge on Joy with the cruel truth.
As a film that uses "Uncanny Valley" to create a suspenseful atmosphere, this film is very good in terms of lines and structure. This film is also a secret room movie, and the plot mainly relies on the dialogue between the three protagonists. The interweaving of a large number of professional terms does not make people feel boring and boring, but constantly pushes the audience to think: What is the difference between humans and AI? If the two are really indistinguishable one day, is this distinction really necessary? With the interlocking, confusing multi-layered plot, and many subtle hints hidden in it, it has achieved a very good suspense effect. This is also a big reason why I think this film is underrated.
But the film also has obvious shortcomings. One is a big, big, hard injury that cannot be ignored. Just think: if you were Joy, and a pretentious scientist suddenly declared to you that the human being in front of you, who was ordinary in both conversation and behavior, was actually an artificial intelligence, would you ask him to prove to you What about this? The heroine believed his words without reservation, and immediately made me realize that there must be a ghost in it. This bruise is fatal. It directly led me to guess the truth at the beginning of the movie, and it continued to leave the scene until the end. The second is to imply that it is too deliberate. For example, David is obviously an artificial intelligence. How can he always lose to humans at chess? Why is it so exciting to play table tennis, all kinds of smashes, and finally flatten the ball in a fit of anger? On the contrary, although Adam looks stinky and talkative on the surface, in fact, his eyes have always been cold, and he has no emotion at all. Maybe if I didn't find the previous flaw, these details would have deepened the "uncanny valley" effect of the audience, thus achieving a creepy effect, but unfortunately I found this flaw...and someone sharper than me There are many, many more. Maybe that's the real reason the movie has fallen to such a low profile.
Overall, the flaws do not hide the flaws, and the film is remarkable in terms of creativity and expression. But unlike mental patients and criminals, there are still differences between AI and humans, and it is impossible to be completely consistent. The theme of the film determines that this flaw must exist, so this is actually an irreconcilable contradiction.
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