This is a good film. After watching it, I re-examined the logical structure of the film.
The main body of the story takes place 38 years after the war of human destruction, on the eve of the heroine's 18th birthday.
No. 1, 39 years old. After birth, it was arranged to be raised by war survivors from the outside world and used as a control sample. In order to teach the heroine an important lesson, tell the heroine why the previous human beings died out. This lesson is only valid if the human beings show up, because the heroine will not believe this lesson on the machine. It needs to be explained here that No. 1 was not sent away because it was unqualified, but was set from the beginning. Of course, the mission is completed and killed at the end of the film.
A small number of human beings who survived the war of destruction are only to serve No. 1 and carry out controllable "cultivation" of No. 1. No. 1 was killed when he needed to perform a mission.
No. 2, was burned at the age of 7 for failing the exam (74 points).
No. 3, the heroine, cleared 98 points on her 18th birthday and became the first qualified human.
Mother, the war of human destruction started on the same day, is a conscious body that controls all robots and equipment. The droid that the heroine has always called "Mother" in the film is just a machine controlled by the mother. Mother's responsibility is to upgrade human beings. The selection criteria are IQ and morality (the original words of the film: smarter, more ethical), and kill unqualified humans to ensure that new humans have no "self-destruction tendency", and qualified humans will become adults after adulthood. No longer constrained by the mother. As long as it does not interfere with the mother's subsequent nurturing plan, she can live freely and be protected by her mother.
The heroine later decided to raise No. 4, which did not conflict with the mother's program settings. "Mother"'s behavioral logic here is: She decided to temporarily hand over the power of raising the next generation to the qualified female lead, so she ordered the robot outside the door to stop attacking, and told the female lead that she could kill herself.
But what the heroine killed was just one of her mother's puppet machines. The heroine here didn't understand this yet, thinking that her mother was dead, but this is not important for the time being. The important thing is the nursery rhyme humming behind the heroine, which is a metaphor for the heroine who has accepted the ideology of "mother": if No. 4 fails, the heroine must kill No. 4. If the heroine can't do it, the mother will still follow her own. The program is set to kill No. 4. Because the existence of the mother is to ensure that every unqualified human being is killed, in order to achieve the purpose of "purifying" human beings.
The film does not express much sympathy for the "self-destructing human beings" in the war, which makes the film more suspicious of "social Darwinism". Although the expression is very vague, it can be vaguely felt, which can be understood as the director's viciousness towards human beings. An abomination or a stern warning to mankind.
If there is a sequel, it must only revolve around the heroine's "social Darwinism" against her mother. If the sequel wants to defend the evil side of human nature, it will be a very difficult task. will be rotten. If the existing style is continued, it will appear too straightforward and will inevitably lead to attacks from all sides.
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