"Westworld" has always been my favorite show, he's more pathetic than "Darkness."
"Darkness" is purely about time and space and the universe, "Westworld" is about human beings themselves.
Again,
I am very happy and curious to discuss things in this world. When discussing my own affairs, I am very pessimistic and helpless.
When I wrote my first review, I didn't even dare to watch the second season for a long time, thinking what else could shock me.
Then, again, it was really fragrant.
Nolan doesn't want to shock people, he wants to instruct people
I found myself stuck in the Eastern philosophical way of thinking before.
I have already accepted and understood
All the concepts already given in Westworld Season 1:
no self-awareness
freedom does not exist
low human emotions
Receptionist is more advanced
Robot finds out that the world is fake
Humans will also discover the virtuality of the world
But my thinking stopped, and I fell into the state of Zhuang Shengxiao's dream of being a butterfly: I can't tell the difference between dream and reality.
But the logic of Western philosophical thinking is: I must continue to subdivide and study.
Given the facts, the second season continues to portray what everyone will do
- The receptionist alone has three awakening methods:
- Dolores, guided by the gods, is "awakened" and wants to gain power through violence to force all the receptionists to be free according to her will.
- Maeve awakens in death, but only focuses on the self-affection line.
- Akecheta caught a glimpse of the truth by chance and wondered how he could liberate his tribe.
- Once again, the opposite is blurred. When you stand in the perspective of humans and think that the receptionists should be "stopped", you see the side of robots feeling fear, pain and joy, seeing them more and more like us, and the conflict is instantaneous. been softened.
- Can't resist the "instinct" when the receptionist understands that the pain is just a procedure, but still feels the pain. When you know that family and love are just a set program, you still can't resist this programmed love. The story of maeve's daughter runs through her entire plot.
- Subdividing the concept of me in the mirror We know that we can use the "mirror" to face ourselves. For this concept, Westworld has designed several ways to face ourselves. (mave sees the self through Akane, Dolores sees the self through and in her memory, we see the self through the robot)
In the final episode, a painting by the Dutch painter Escher , "drawing hands", (painting hands), appeared on the wall to express mirror reflection, or looping. The time and story of this world are not a single linear development, including the editing narrative of the first and second seasons, which are endlessly interspersed with different timelines.
"They say there are two fathers, one in heaven and one in hell, and they're lying. All the time, there's only the devil, and when you look up from hell, there's only his reflection, laughing at you in hell." .
Patterns of Western theory and practice can be seen everywhere in history, such as the course of the United States Constituent Assembly.
After a long discussion of liberal democracy, the Declaration of Independence was born in 1776 .
So in the 1787 Constitutional Convention, instead of discussing human rights in general, they began discussing state rights. All are based on reality, do not defend liberty, do not quarrel for independence. Without declarative claims, Rousseau, Locke, Plato, Machiavelli all retreated into the background.
Just like the first season gave us a lot of philosophical and literary idea quotes, every conversation wanted to take a screenshot:
Season two puts the theory back.
Nolan is like a worker. After building the top-level logic, he digs deep into the issues of consciousness and freedom. This process may be more boring than shocking, but what is necessary is a bridge.
He even made the screenwriter's consciousness back.
When watching other dramas, I would think that the screenwriter let the character die, and the screenwriter has a good line. But the characters in Westworld are too strong and make me think:
Ford is amazing, Dolores is taking freedom
Character awareness goes beyond the screenwriter's intent, with each character jumping on stage to make their point. Although this awareness is still "not free".
eternal life
The more complex the character, motivation, and behavior, the fuller the character will be. But this time I'm hoping Ford's motives are pure.
In season one, I called him God because of his willingness to step out and hand the world over to his hosts. But in fact, he is also an ordinary god. I don't believe that he is completely ignorant of the experiments done by the man in black. He must have considered immortality. He didn't give the world entirely to the host, he just set himself the perfect stage to live forever in another way.
But I still like him, and I think Nietzsche likes him too:
"I like people who don't go to the stars to find a reason to perish and sacrifice, but only intend to sacrifice their lives on the earth so that the earth will one day belong to Superman.
To be a god requires two conditions , eternal life and wisdom
Back in the Garden of Eden, there existed the tree of life and the tree of good and evil, and God said,
You cannot eat from the tree of good and evil.
But God's prohibition is very strange. He only said that you should not eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil, but he did not mention that you should not eat the fruit of the tree of life.
According to general logic, the more you are forbidden, the more you will do it. This prohibition of God is "encouraging" human beings to have wisdom, and God is also tempting. He is not afraid of human beings being wise, but he is afraid that human beings will live forever. We explore the secrets of consciousness by building receptionists,
God explores life by giving us wisdom. In any case, when we are wise in God's game and cast out of the Garden of Eden, we are still looking for eternal life in various ways. Can't live forever, can't own this world. And has the God who created us in the first place achieved eternal life?
significance
The discussion of meaning is the cruelest tenderness of the show.
I built you to be curious, to look at this empty world, and read me aning into it.
The subtitle group translated "read" to give meaning,
But to give meaning and to understand meaning are two concepts.
The former is active and the latter is passive.
The former is the creator, the latter is the created.
When the Creator graciously said:
Is this sunshine really hope?
To understand a world that has no meaning, to find meaning for it, and to live. On top of this falsehood, how should all the systems, cultures, arts, and words that have been invented be understood?
Again, here's how Ford sees humans:
That's why Sartre, Camus, and others (although they "on and off") keep emphasizing the absurdity of life for us:
When you share a romantic candlelit dinner with a loved one, you are essentially eating the tissue of a dead animal, and you and your fellow mammal are sitting on a dead log.
When you bring all meanings back to the essence of facts, when you separate the vocabulary of everyday objects from reality, you will bump into strange absurdities again and again, these strange moments that cannot be explained by logic.
Philosophers always say that it is crazy to be extremely rational about everything.
Is it that human beings can't bear the truth of extreme rationality, or that we are designed to understand and need emotion at the same time.
When the receptionist thinks about this kind of thinking, which is called awakening, what about human beings?
Maybe in a meaningless world, if humans don't have a unified main storyline (code), I think the result will only be madness.
Target
When we understand that everything is meaningless, where is our meaning?
"passenger"
As Nietzsche said,
"Man is a rope stretched between animals and superman.
"It's dangerous to walk, it's dangerous to stand still halfway, it's dangerous to look back, it's dangerous to tremble or wince.
The greatness of man is that he is a bridge, not a goal, the loveliness of man is that he is a transition, a destruction. "
"There hasn't been a superman. I've seen theirs, the greatest and the least,--they are too similar to each other. Indeed, I see that even the greatest--are too human. "
Humanity's goal is only transition, the open secret that everyone has known for a long time—death.
Heaven is on the road to death.
As long as my stats are around, every death is an opportunity to level up.
In the transitional stage, we also need to create many goals to reach the other side.
At the same time strangely
The first season was the labyrinth and the second season was the Promised Land, and without a destination and purpose, human beings cannot tell stories.
Journey to the West without "Western Heaven"
If Harry Potter doesn't defeat "Voldemort"
If Moses did not lead the crowd to the "promised land"
If we don't earn money to buy a house and have kids, where will we go?
When it is judged that we are only bridges, what should we ask for?
At the end of the third season, Dolores finally stepped out of Westworld to pursue her paradise - the real.
I wonder if she has ever thought that if the real world is exciting enough, why should humans go to Westworld to experience happiness.
She just went from one loop to the next.
In the end, it's just because God (human) and receptionist (robot) are still on the same latitude, sharing some sort of similar way of thinking.
Otherwise, if it is an interdimensional act of creation, even if we slip into their realm, we will not understand the shape of their world.
free will is not free
Should the third season be out of the park?
There is no freedom in the paradise, and there is no freedom outside the paradise
High-rise buildings are just wooden stakes that pierce our chests
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