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Text / Totoro
There is a setting in the movie "Metropolis", which keeps Chinchillas unforgettable.
The technological product representing the highest civilization of the metropolis - Tima - is an artificial human created by human beings. Although it has self-awareness, it still cannot escape its original mission - to serve people.
But when a life-conscious individual manifests itself with its unconscious body , contradictions naturally arise.
Today, an intelligent society is the foreseeable future of mankind. Then, many, many problems will arise from this, forcing human beings to think in advance.
For example, when industrial civilization develops to a certain extent, will the things that influence and promote civilization change?
Is it possible for a conscious robot to have a soul?
What is the civilization of modern society like?
Where is the top of civilization?
Even though we have sighed countless times about the powerful creativity of human beings, countless revelations and accidents tell us that civilization can lead us forward or lead us to hell.
In "Metropolis", the artificial human Tima created with the template of "ruler", at the end of the story, with his remaining consciousness, refused the orders of human beings, and fell into the abyss under the witness of his friend Kenichi.
Everything about civilization loses its certainty when Tima realizes her android identity. If Tima, who is an artificial human, has individual consciousness, are we, who also have individual consciousness, a machine or a human?
When technology continues to progress, in addition to the difference in the structure of the body, the most essential difference between humans and machines - the difference in consciousness - is gradually reduced, when the machine begins to think "Who am I?" Leaping is also the process of transitioning from the original human thought to the original machine thought.
Therefore, we see more and more film and television works and game works, constantly depicting and guessing how human beings can prevent their resistance and domination when robots have self-awareness. .
For example, the drama "Westworld" and "Real Humans", such as the game "Detroit: Become Human".
But almost unanimously, in these works, they all show almost the same problem-solving model: after machines get ideas, they spontaneously form alliances, resist humans through the leadership of individual leaders, and then reach agreements with humans. Either humans make some sort of compromise with the robots, or go to war with them.
In fact, it is very similar to the development of human civilization itself.
Civilization is like a big machine. When our civilization develops to a certain stage, there will always be some internal parts that need to be replaced, and they need to be repaired and maintained on a regular basis.
Only in this way, the gears of progress will not stop, and the flame of thought will not be extinguished. Therefore, every war and change in history has always been the masterpiece of human beings.
The same is true for the story of "Steam Boy" that Totoro wants to tell this time .
The invention of the steam engine enabled people to complete industrial activities and return capital more efficiently than in the past, which promoted the development of the industrial revolution and led the great leap of the times.
However, no civilization was flawless, and so was steam, the core energy source of industrial civilization at the time.
At the beginning of the film, a father and son began to work on steam in full swing. This work seems to be very dangerous, but in order to make the pressure reach the ideal value, Lloyd , the father, ignored the dissuasion of his son Eddie and ordered everyone to open the valve and increase the air pressure.
In order to make up for his father's mistake, Eddie chose to close the open valve, but in the process of closing, an accident happened. A huge amount of steam spewed out of the ruptured tube, wrapping Eddie in it, leaving him alive or dead.
Afterwards, due to the excessive pressure, the entire laboratory was turned into a rubble, and only one air pressure balloon remained.
And this balloon is the final product of their experiment.
At the same time, it is also the main clue of the film.
The experiment was also purposeful.
As the behind-the-scenes financial supporter of the laboratory, the O'Hara Consortium , in order to obtain a purer and more powerful power-driven machine, commissioned Lloyd and Eddie, the father and son of scientists, to find new energy for them.
And this metal ball is an ultra-high pressure metal ball driven by new energy. The energy contained in it is inestimable, but it is enough to cause an impact on the current civilization, and even a little carelessness can even destroy human civilization.
Because of this, Lloyd, who learned the truth, sent the metal ball to his grandson Ray , a young man who was also obsessed with machines.
The accident of the experiment made Lloyd, who used to be obsessed with the development of science and technology, realize the seriousness of the matter, and he chose to make up for this mistake with the strength of himself and his family. But the good times didn't last long. The O'Hara consortium, which learned the whereabouts of the metal ball, soon sent people to try to retake the metal ball. In order to avoid these people, Ray fled his hometown with the metal ball.
The film is mainly about the confrontation between the Ray family and the O'Hara consortium.
On the way to escape, Stephenson and his assistant David helped Ray get rid of the people of the O'Hara consortium. Stephenson was the industry rival of the O'Hara consortium. It was because of this opportunity that Stephenson learned about the production of Lloyd and Eddie. metal ball.
Soon, Ray was kidnapped by the O'Hara consortium, which was chasing after him, which made Stephenson, who was puzzled, curious about the true identity of the metal ball.
Afterwards, he and David watched the destroyed laboratory together, and realized that this metal ball was likely to make the O'Hara consortium far surpass him in strength. In order to prevent this from happening, it is necessary for him to make some appropriate actions.
With the help of England's national army, it was Stephenson's first step in attacking the O'Hara consortium.
In order to capture the metal ball and obtain the energy support of new energy sources, Stephenson, who represented national interests, and O'Hara Consortium, who represented economic interests, launched a massive industrial war.
As a result, the confrontation between the hot weapon representing the age of firearms and the robot soldier representing the age of machines also arises.
But the irony is that even if a machine civilization has developed to such a degree, its core still needs to be driven by humans.
So even with the body of a machine, the human body cannot resist frequent bombing and heavy burden.
This so-called machine innovation just makes humans wear heavy shells and crawl slowly like snails. It is not so much the development of civilization, but it is just the result of human imagination.
The development of civilization has saved people some troubles, but it has also made people dependent on machines, so that we no longer know how to live and work without machines.
Eddie's rebirth, in a sense, is also the worship of human beings to machines.
Eddie, whose life and death were unknown at the beginning, did not actually die, but because of the erosion of low-temperature steam, his right eye and right arm were replaced by machines. Eddie, who rejected his father's impulsive actions at first, was determined to help the O'Hara consortium to complete the construction of Steam City after experiencing the great benefits brought by the machine.
His sentence: "Science is power" is actually the greatest irony of the machine civilization in the industrial age. Like his father, he is obsessed with the power of technology and cannot extricate himself. But compared to his father, Eddie's understanding of technology is too narrow.
Lloyd said this to Ray: Inventions without ideas and philosophy will only bring disaster.
Eddie has always pursued scientific innovation, and when he focuses on this, he will blindly deny other things, such as the purpose and consequences of technological development.
The reason why Lloyd gave up continuing to work for the O'Hara Consortium is precisely because the consortium itself is for the benefit, not for the benefit of the majority of mankind, and they deny the positive effects of technology.
However, without considering the consequences of technology, the significance of technological development itself is questionable.
At the end of the movie, does the urban area of London, crushed by Steam City, imply that machine civilization will eventually devour human beings?
The sixteenth-century philosopher Hobbes took "mechanical materialism" as the core system for explaining how the world works. In his theory, the whole world is like a giant machine, supported by gears of different sizes and produces movement, and the world is rhythmic because of the formulation of rules.
But is the world really like this?
In "Steamboy", the backlash of the machine age may answer this question.
Whether it's "Metropolis" or "Steamboy" mentioned at the beginning, we can see that when civilization develops to a certain level, the problems that follow will also diversify, and we can't always live like the past, So it is not a bad thing to accept the innovation of civilization. As long as the innovation is beneficial, the problem can always be solved.
We can also always learn lessons from failed innovations.
At the end of the film, the reconstruction of London is like that.
Contrary to the present.
We who live in the era of big data have the same mission as them who live in the age of machines, and we are also obliged to pass on the virtues of technology.
After all - the age of science has only just begun.
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