(Text / Yang Shiyang)
This is a "post-truth era", which is probably the consensus of most people. "Post-truth" does not mean that everything no longer has the truth, but it means that the truth is more subtly hidden, wrapped, and difficult to find. So that people are skeptical and sarcastic about everything they see, and they no longer dare to draw conclusions easily. As a result, the truth no longer cares about everyone, and the serious search eventually becomes a game, a story, or a melon-eating feast.
From this perspective, what the British drama "Truth Capture" does is to show the disastrous consequences of "post-truth" to everyone. The story begins with a court scene. Sean, a soldier returning from the anti-terrorist field, is being tried. The video equipment carried by his comrades records his indiscriminate killing of innocents on the battlefield. On the verge of sentencing, his lawyer Hannah brought in a witness who appeared to have nothing to do with the whole affair, a sports broadcast consultant and an expert on video equipment. After the expert's analysis and presentation, everyone at the scene discovered another version of the truth-due to a problem with the video equipment, the video picture and the audio track were not synchronized. After adjusting to the original audio and video synchronization, what people saw, heard and The resulting judgment was completely reversed, which is to say that Sean's shooting was absolutely plausible. Sean was released in court and re-emerged as a hero in people's hearts. This opening has become an exercise and a reminder for the entire story that follows, conveying a concept to people: this is an era with pictures but no truth, and everything you see may also be an illusion.
Everything that followed took a turn for the worse, and Sean, who thought he was returning to a normal life, suddenly fell into another disaster. He had an early relationship with Hannah, the lawyer who saved him from misfortune, and now that the case is over, Sean confessed to Hannah that it seemed that the woman accepted the love, but soon Sean was in prison again. This time it was because of a video captured by a public camera on the street. After Sean confessed to Hannah, Hannah got on the bus and went home, but in the video recorded by the camera, everything changed. The street began to scuffle Hannah. After the police intervened, everything pointed to murder. The drama of self-innocence and life-and-death escape begins. The surveillance video was uploaded to the Internet. Facing the unquestionable picture, Sean himself even felt some kind of confusion. There was a problem with his memory, PTSD was responsible, or he was really innocent. All of this is huge. conspiracy?
Genre-wise, "Truth Capture" is a bit like "Bourneville" mashed up with "Homeland" only to shake out the terrifying texture of "Black Mirror" in the end. The story deals with everyone's fears of the sprawling Leviathan power expansion, the anti-terrorism anxiety of this era, and the overwhelm of being overwhelmed by technology out of control. It reverses and reverses and reverses, just like the battlefield video that appeared in the court cross-examination stage at the beginning of the story. Whether the video is true or false, and how to interpret it, all this determines a person's life and death.
At first, people thought that this might be a story about split personality, and then they wondered if this was a conspiracy born out of infighting among some power departments, but in the end, it seemed that this was a lawyer who was fighting for justice. After everything was hopeless, a desperate resistance of the sword went sideways. Everything was arranged by lawyer Hannah, who pretended to be killed and used Sean's public reputation to make public the fact that the authorities used high-tech tampering videos to frame some people in jail.
Everything has come here, and the ins and outs of this suspenseful and thrilling story are very clear. It first showed countless "truths", but smashed those "truths" with his own hands, and finally presented a "truth" that made everyone stunned. All of this, will we still believe in the final "version"? Yes, in this era, the word "truth" has undergone internal variation, and it may produce many versions, 1.0, 2.0 iterates gradually, and may eventually return to zero. The interesting thing about this story is that it not only presents us with a drama with twists and turns, but also uses the twists and turns itself to make people reflect. After teasing again and again, after believing it is true and completely reversed, what will we believe?
Although "Truth Capture" presents a somewhat unbelievable story in an era of technological mutation, the questions it raises still point to practical dilemmas and moral dilemmas - the original intention of the authorities to tamper with the video is to capture terrorists, those " People who know they are guilty but lack evidence", if they follow the legal process, those people will stay at large until one day they make extremely destructive actions, but if the secret agencies are allowed to act so recklessly, this power will surely expand silently, and then Completely out of control, what lawyer Hannah wants to maintain is a long-standing procedural justice, but at present, this procedural justice restrains the "good people" and condones the "wicked people". How to solve this, and when the procedural justice is destroyed, The consensus on the presumption of innocence is abandoned, who will protect everyone? It seems that the world is caught in a predicament of a cliff, with abyss on both sides, and how to choose is almost shattered. Both sides of the confrontation in this story think they are doing the right thing and that they are doing justice, but why are they both causing harm to innocent people?
A while ago, images and videos were widely believed as undocumented powers, but technology quickly shattered people's trust, with no trace of PS, deepfake face-changing, everything intervened in the light-hearted form of games. life, but everyone knows that the fangs are only temporarily hidden, and one day those out-of-control technologies will make us doomed. The story setting of "Truth Capture" still points the finger at a specific department with huge power and entities, but in fact, the more terrible things are more than this. To destroy a person, there is no need for an organization, any ordinary Anyone can use fool technology to tamper with videos and photos, hijacking public opinion and directly killing a person in a spiritual sense. The smearing and smearing of one's reputation has never been cheaper than it is today. We play those face-changing games with great interest and watch those videos that are randomly grafted to be fake, but how many people realize that they are pushing themselves to the brink of doom, and even if we realize all this, it is true Can you stop the coming of a dark future?
(This article was first published in Beijing Youth Daily)
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