"Westworld" is a science fiction drama released by HBO. The first season was launched in 2016 and the second season was updated in 2018. The third season is this year.
It is reasonable to update "Westworld" every two years. Its story structure is grand, the characters are numerous, the plot is complex, and the scientific and philosophical content involved is too profound. It takes time not only for the creators, but also for the viewers. to think about it.
After watching the first season of 2016, the shock in my heart is indescribable. Although there are classic space sci-fi such as "2001 A Space Odyssey", the impact brought by "Westworld" is different, and due to the long format of the series, the recurring plot touches the heart about "self" and "self" again and again. "Existence" thinking.
I deeply think that if you don't have too much time to watch American dramas, "Westworld" is a must-see.
It explores the bottom of the human heart. Just like the "Westworld" paradise in the play to spy on the human heart, the viewer can also form deep thinking through the presentation of film and television content.
When the second season of 2018 was updated, maybe it was not the right time to watch it, and it was subconsciously shelved. Until this year, before the update of the third season, I finally finished watching the second season.
From Bernard's perspective this season, Memento is generally a chaotic situation. It seems difficult to figure out what the past, present and future are, but it is precisely through this sense of incomprehension and incomprehension that people have more space to think about the true core of the play.
About "existence"
Dolores asked questions in the first episode: What is real?
What exactly is it? This is the second season, a core thinking.
Thinking about the authenticity of life, like the sound of a cello that can be heard from time to time, keeps pulling my heart.
The receptionists who were awakened like Dolores recalled the past from the feeling of déjà vu again and again.
Almost everyone in their lives has had this experience—the occasional sense of déjà vu. Makes you feel like you've been to that place, seen the same people, and done the same things.
If this can be explained by dreams, by parallel space, by transcendence of time and space, and by cerebral cortex, can it also be explained by “renewal and restart” like Westworld?
After all, that momentary sense of familiarity can be understood as a temporary "system failure".
Human memory is an intangible thing. Who's to say that when you wake up from a dream, you are not implanted with memories of the past, and then you think you have experienced everything in the past?
Furthermore, even though there are thousands of differences between people, regions, and countries in life, there are always similarities in one way or another, and it is very similar to the complaints of the story writers in the "Westworld" park -- there are so many characters. , the story can only be applied, otherwise who can write it?
So, our reality, who wrote it?
Everyone in Westworld began to doubt their authenticity, including William. I have a hunch that next season, I will see more receptionists like Bernard who don't even know they are receptionists.
This kind of suspicion that is constantly spreading is not only what the "Westworld" receptionist does, but also the ultimate question in life that everyone in reality will more or less think about.
The moment Dolores tested Bernard in turn, he felt a thud in his cerebral cortex. All the self-righteous cognitions of human beings may change in an instant.
Just like in Westworld, it seems that users go to experience the park, but in fact, the receptionist is a measure, and the user is a variable. Obtaining variable data through measurement is the ultimate goal of the park.
This feeling is exactly the same as when we use the Internet now. Thinking it is convenient and experiencing it is actually being acquired. If you control your mind, you control everything about you.
About "Freedom"
After awakening, Dolores is a complete changer. For his peers, his companions, Teddy, and even his father, he did not hesitate to give up even if he was heartbroken.
The awakened Maeve on the other side has always missed her daughter. Even though her daughter's story has been rewritten and she has a new mother, she still has no turning back.
Humans find it pointless for Maeve to find a daughter who doesn't "exist" from a "reality" perspective. But isn't that the case with humans themselves? Just like the hometown, even if you know it's just a place to live in the past, you don't know when it's been deeply rooted in your heart and never let it go.
Human beings live in the present moment, what they feel is meaningful at the moment, and what is meaningful, no matter whether those things in the past "exist" or "do not exist". In our conception of the brain, even if it's not that good, it doesn't even exist, if you think about it, it's unconsciously pictured, making it incredibly important.
The last time the two met, Maeve thought that Dolores had walked into the darkness, but Dolores in turn advised Maeve: You are always in the dark.
Dolores is indeed more like a leader, an ultimate BOSS. She sees the unreality of everything, and can let go of all the unreality, just to pursue what she wants - FREE.
About "Select"
The new season also makes us feel another truth.
The plot enriches the lives of Japanese and interracial people, letting us know that everyone lives their own lives. But about the future, it depends on your choice, and there is no right or wrong choice.
Ford provides an eternal paradise for the receptionists, where the sky is clear and the grass is green, but for the human world, they are jumping off a cliff and dying.
This leads to thinking about "identification".
People live in their own world. For example, in the recently re-screened "Life is Beautiful", the male protagonist Guido is a person with a strong sense of belief. He believes that he and his wife are princes and princesses, that a fascist prison is a castle, that all this and even life is a game. Then in his world, it is what he believes, and it has nothing to do with others.
The human world assigns value to everything, isn't it? A stone is just a stone, and it is a "jade" to identify it as "jade", and a "diamond" to identify it as a "diamond".
Therefore, everyone has their own identification, and identification is also a choice.
In the end, Dolores understood that everyone has the freedom to choose, so he accepted those receptionists to choose the paradise provided by Ford, and he still insisted on his choice.
About "Transformation"
The humans and the receptionist fought several times, not knowing who to kill whom.
I feel sorry for the receptionists, but they are really just a kind of "existence" set by humans, they are not real people. However, from their point of view, I feel that they are also emotional, longing for freedom, and fighting for themselves.
There's really no way to tell this kind of thing.
There is no way to tell, and the "good or bad" of the characters in the play is always changing.
For example, the aliens did not want to kill the Maeve mother and daughter, but to help them know that death can lead to the truth.
For example, at first I thought Ford was sabotaging, but then I found out that he had deeper thoughts.
For example, Dolores, who was beautiful and kind at the beginning, became a carefree, murderous change-maker in the second season.
As for Dolores and William, the relationship between the two was good at first, then killed each other, then fought side by side, and then killed each other again.
People are so complicated, and people are even more complicated and infinitely intertwined.
About "Eternal Life"
In Westworld, death is less terrifying because you will live longer, even eternally. Like Ford, he dies, but exists in another form.
Is this Ford still the original Ford? The question itself is problematic. It is impossible for each of us to be exactly the same as our original self at every moment. Human existence is a constant transformation.
Today's Ford is also a kind of existence, but a kind of existence that does not seem to be normal at present. This kind of existence is also presented in "Transcendental Hackers". It is more advanced and does not even need the "burden" of the flesh.
Everyone, can be a 10247 line code book. You don't even need that book, if you memorize the codes like Dolores, you can make them exist "anywhere".
Maeve's ability to influence other receptionists at a distance is also the meaning of this existence. It saves a lot of time and space for human beings and is a real "idea" transmission.
From this, I feel that Ford is really powerful. These powerful receptionists are all designed by him. In the end, he set himself up as an eternal existence, so he is not so afraid of death.
That is really a kind of existence that surpasses the current stage of human beings, there is no material, only spirit and thought. "Consciousness" itself is a kind of existence.
About "Eternal"
The receptionist jumped through Ford's gates, what looked like death to humans, a step into a new world for them.
Conversely, jumping out of the plot, in the real world, if humans want to enter the next form, they also need to pass through death. It's just that everyone who exists in reality doesn't know what will happen next.
Dolores doesn't want to enter that new paradise, she wants to be free, like "The Truman World", to jump out of this false paradise. What she pursues is a kind of eternity. But this eternity still exists in our present world.
Looking at Maeve in this way, it seems that she is pursuing an unreal emotion. Her love for "daughter", whether it is for human beings or for Dolores, feels meaningless. But returning to the essence of human beings, it seems that "love" is indeed a kind of eternity.
Everything has an end, and love is an eternal existence.
But what if love is just a code?
For people, it is really impossible to imagine it any further.
For we do not know, what is eternity in relation to other forms of existence?
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