If free will is the unarranged and finalized human will, then it can be said that free will is the self-doubt, denial and re-determination of the purpose of being born as a human being (Ford has a similar argument in the play).
Then the theme of this season: Free will is not free is a continuation of the theme discussed in the previous two seasons, why people are human, and what human nature is.
In terms of updating one season in a two-year span, it is an inevitable development for the play to propose new and larger themes while solving the doubts of the previous work. The introduction of new problems in this season can all be started with the introduction of the new character Caleb. Due to the limited space, all the viewpoints in this article revolve around the character of Caleb, trying to explore the possibility of plot development.
Note: This article was written after watching S3E1
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Several questions and possible developments in the plot:
1. Is Caleb a human or a Host?
Caleb's entry scene is just as waking from a slumber as Deloros in the first season. After watching the whole episode, it seems that there are various hints that Caleb, like Dolores in the first season, is an existence that needs identity awakening (even all the humans controlled by AI in the play), so think about it, will Caleb also be a robot? But a good play, as Shakespeare said: using a meme twice is almost suicidal (Bernard). So this possibility is undoubtedly low.
As a human being, what exactly does Caleb need to be awakened to?
The first episode shows the day-to-day, Sisyphus-like cycle of Caleb's life (job depression, mother's sick bed, military pain), and there are a few key points interspersed with these narratives: First, the standard of care must be met in order to receive benefits. , trying to strive for the top, riding a donkey and looking for a horse was perfunctory by AI (the system has failed many times), and even the mother who took care of him did not recognize him (the pain of the original family?). The mother's point may imply that the son is not human (maybe the real Caleb is the one who died in the battle? This is a robot?), or just the mother is dementia? However, I would rather say that Caleb is more like the protagonist of The Shawshank Redemption, institutionalized.
To borrow the words of the people in the play, the real world itself is a virtual reality situation (Simulation). To open the mind, not only Caleb, but all non-elites are objects of machine learning, so Caleb's therapists also Well, from his subscription service (Francis's calls), from the job search company, and even his mother, who in it could know what was real. Thinking about it again, maybe these people are robots ("You are not my son", maybe it's just a deliberate warning by AI that Caleb is about to deviate from the planned path of the system), and Caleb is the object of their training? Since we have already learned that Caleb will fight with Dolores in the end, it is not difficult to imagine that Caleb is already full of doubts in his heart and has a strong free will. In this sense, he is the most human being.
2. Was the encounter between Caleb and Dolores scheduled?
At the end, the two met like this. Mary Sue was full. Under the consistent style of Nolan's works, everyone couldn't help but think that this might not be a coincidence.
Dolores pretended to be in a coma, and she personally arranged the scene with Liam's deputy, but the serious injury was unexpected, because although Demei would not be killed, her body would still die. And Caleb went to this neighborhood as a result of Rico's pick-up. Rico is a kind of location chain software (mentioned in Nolan's interview). Since it is completely open to use, it must be able to completely untrack and locate. And Dolores has always wanted to get closer to the super AI-Rehoboam. According to a conversation with Liam in the play, it can be seen that she has not found a backdoor or obtained permission. Therefore, Dolores pays attention to the lack of technical conditions of Caleb, a specific low-level worker, and the possibility is almost impossible. It can be seen that their meeting was just the result of chance. As Ma Zhe said, there is inevitability in the accident, and the encounter between the two is also the inevitability of the development of the plot.
But it is impossible for Caleb to save the injured Dolores alone, and the two begin to trust each other and begin to die. Caleb must have more complicated plots yet to unfold (at least it seems that the battlefield memory line should be unfolded), and in terms of values, they must have further exchanges (Dolores help Caleb understand some uglier social reality? ).
3. Rico, the GTA order taking software, is too simple and rude? What's behind it?
Of course, the blockchain can not be tracked, but what about the maintenance cost? (Will the future society be able to run software without servers in a few decades?) So even if it is a decentralized software, complete decentralization is almost impossible (who is the original developer? Or is there a technical community behind it? , why does it exist?)
How did this software come about?
As the so-called " water is clear, there are no fish ", only in chaos and disorder can there be greater energy (higher entropy).
If the original developer has no economic purpose (like the decentralization of the blockchain, such as Caleb grabbing an ATM ticket, the money is directly thrown on the self-driving vehicle, it should be a point-to-point transaction, no middleman), at least this exists. It's ideologically different: be a spoiler . Regardless of whether the series will be involved in this aspect or not, the existence of the software and the perfect rating and credit system it has established at least show that a considerable number of people are dissatisfied with the existing system and want to "fish in troubled waters". I personally think that , which will be one of the great sources of the Dolores rebel army!
(This black brother's emotional t-shirt is so cool, I'm fine with it...)
Here is the biggest question
Dolores values, will this season be changed by Caleb, and where is this fight going?
Is it a Terminator massacre or a human redemption?
1. The increasingly heavy left-wing values of Western dramas
In the first episode, the debut of Incite and super AI, Rehoboam, seems to have taken care of some big technology companies in real life who claim not to be evil. On the one hand, they say that technology makes the world a better place, on the other hand, they violate personal privacy and sell data. Profit and even predict individual behavior arbitrage.
And the ugly western government is not painful to the life of the people at the bottom. More and more dramas such as "Mr. Robot" and "The House of Paper" begin to show the awakening of people's wisdom and different degrees of resistance.
So looking back at the two paths Maeve and Dolores chose in the second season (assuming they are the ideological agents of Westworld creator Ford and Arnold respectively), if Dolores' ultimate goal is to exterminate human beings, it is not only too boring, but also The degree of feasibility is a bit low (the fake Hale went into the boardroom to disrupt the situation in order to keep the host group so that it can be released into the human world, but Maeve and other people with different ideas will inevitably disrupt the situation), it can be seen that transforming human beings and awakening human beings is the only way for her. The first step is to obtain super AI authority, or expose ugly big companies and awaken the wisdom of the people.
Therefore, it is not difficult to see that Dolores, who has nothing to lose, is the perfect leader of human redemption: she is multi-faceted and exquisite, faces pain, and is resolute and firm.
2. The proletariat unites with the working class against the ugly bourgeoisie?
In the first two seasons, it seems that human and robot Host are a pair of natural enemies. The former is indulgent and bloodthirsty, while the latter is repressed and ignorant.
However, after Dolores was seen by the rich Asian wife at the beginning of S3E1, not only did he not kill anyone, but instead said, I am the one who set you free. It seems that after entering human society, Dolores may have learned about the differences between people at multiple levels. There is no freedom, oppression is everywhere (in the first few minutes, we see the plutocrats do domestic violence on the first, and verbal violence on the second).
So she already has clues to realize that the class differentiation of Western human society, the enemy of Host may not be all human beings, but the so-called elites, interest groups. To put it simply, the capital groups (rich class) that seek money and murder, such as Incite + Delos, are the common enemy of the people at the bottom and the hosts.
Here, Dolores is the representative of the proletariat (with purer beliefs, she was not worth a lot when she first debuted, and even as she herself said, she is the only species left), and Caleb, who cannot break free from the cage of the system, is absolutely The representative of the working class (loving relatives, loving colleagues, diligently striving for the top but being let down by the system). In the play, Dolores claims to be a new god, the man-made wrath of the gods, which will inevitably bring about the reconstruction of a new system. This subversive revolutionary force is very much like the spiritual baptism that Marx brought to all mankind.
It's really not a cliché. When I think of this, I'm actually shocked.
Finally, please throw away those preconceptions and read my quote below:
The realization of the free and comprehensive development of human beings is the fundamental value goal pursued by Marxism and the fundamental characteristic of the communist society. In a communist society, human development is a free development, a development based on a high degree of individual freedom and self-consciousness, rather than a forced development. Communism is the realization of human emancipation, when human beings will finally be freed from alien forces that govern their lives and destiny, make the leap from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom, and begin to consciously make their own history.
Pay tribute to the ideal kingdom of freedom. Next, the officials will watch the show!
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