I feel that many people don't understand why the mother raised her daughter's hand in the finale to let her shoot and "kill" herself.
In fact, in the mainstream values of European and American culture, a view that is extremely recognized from Shakespeare to Hollywood is Freud's theory of patriarchy and maternity.
The final and most critical step in the growth of the human species is to kill its own father/mother to some extent, and then replace it as a new parent in order to obtain a relatively independent and complete personality and social status.
This is not only a unique form of life renewal, but also a way of inheritance of human civilization. At least in terms of current life and civilization, there is no other way.
Of course, I don't really want you to kill people, but at the spiritual level, I realize the objective fact that I exist in the world as an independent person. People are born alone, and conjoined babies can't live long.
The difference between Eastern and Western cultures is vividly reflected here. Western civilization has a profound exploration of human nature, and sometimes it is really calm and objective, which is admirable, while Chinese culture has been unable to escape the strict and strict rule of heaven and earth for thousands of years. Class consciousness overemphasizes the importance of authority, and lacks a kind of introspection and humility of human beings. Therefore, the doctrine of killing one's father and killing one's mother is an absolute demon in China.
Think carefully about why our society is full of adult giant babies today, and even people in their tens of years are terribly naive and self-willed, which represents our ideological inadequacy and backwardness. This common phenomenon comes from both The lack of education in the original family is also the relatively low level of civilization in the whole society. Therefore, young people of my generation should learn from it and inherit the hard-working spirit of their parents, rather than their obvious defects.
In fact, anyone with a little common sense knows that artificial intelligence is a "super life" that can back up itself as long as there is a hard drive with enough memory, and the mother in the film is a super artificial intelligence that masters the resources of the entire planet. The auxiliary body that raises the heroine probably only accounts for 1/10,000,000 of its system memory. As long as the mother wants it, it can be transformed into 10,000,000 at any time, and as a super AI, its understanding of morality and the accompanying human behavior patterns. The understanding of the law of causality is probably at a height that is unimaginable for human beings, so the plot of the entire film is actually planned and completed by it, until it helps the heroine complete the final step of the growth ritual and kills herself to some extent.” Mother Killing", but in fact it also told the heroine that I can reappear anytime you need me, thus reversing and stimulating the heroine's self-confidence in her own growth.
If there is such a god-defying mother in this world, and she has used all means to cultivate her daughter, I don’t know how awesome her character will be, but her physical strength and comprehensive ability will definitely not be the same as that of the heroine, except for her superb medical skills. With only a slender body, I feel that at least it should be a daughter like the following...
In addition to the human 2.0 version of the whole body of the brain, it is more in line with the growth environment logic of the heroine of the film. ?
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Although the visual style of the film is a bit cold and dark, and the camera movements are mostly repressed emotions that are slowly pushed and pulled, in fact, this is an experimental short film that has no villains and is more philosophically discussed.
Restricted by the investment cost, many places have to be mentioned or mentioned in one go, but the director's possible imagination of the future of mankind is, in general, both objective and optimistic.
Its objectiveness lies in the fact that it does not shy away from the shortcomings of human beings. The former experimental subjects who escaped from the base represent the human beings of the old era, hypocritical, selfish, cowardly, escaping from reality and so on.
The heroine is the new generation that the mother cultivated by all means, and represents the most idealized appearance that human beings can become. Of course, it wasn't because the director didn't want to make it so well, but because Netflix didn't give so much money.
The human species cannot go far by itself, because the various despicable and dark sides of human nature are destined to the limit of its own growth, so if there is no foreign civilization that can interact with human beings in the next few hundred years, whether it is benign Or aggression against each other, then the human race will perish in its own hands in all likelihood.
At a time when it is impossible to gamble on luck and no life has been found in the known and explorable universe, artificial intelligence is the only hope for the future of mankind, even if this intelligence comes from our own hands, but as long as we can conversely and Humans interact, and even evolve to be smarter than humans, then civilization has the possibility of finding the next way out and inheritance. After all, life requires interaction to continue, and civilization requires reference to evolve. There are no exceptions.
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