After watching it, I feel that the story told by the movie is not very complicated. There is a murder case at the beginning of the movie, and then there is a big boss who wants to rule the world. The evil professor builds a machine to rule the world, and such a machine Controlled by specialized robots (superhumans). Here comes the robot Tima that the big boss asked another evil professor to build, which is different from ordinary robots. Tima's shape is based on the daughter of the big boss who died. Then a big part of the movie is about the big BOSS sending people to look for Tima. During this period, Tima has been with the nephew of a Japanese detective who is investigating a murder case. In the movie, this nephew and Tima are similar to Xiao Zhengtai and Xiao Luoli. relation. In the end, Tima was found by the big boss, and then got on the machine that ruled the world. As a result, there was a problem with Tima's system, and the world was about to be destroyed. But the world was not destroyed in the end, because there is also a key character in the movie is the adopted son of the big boss Rock, Rock has always disliked robots, so he does not want Tima to rule the world. Rock wanted to get rid of Tima from the beginning, until Tima was about to get on the world domination machine. But also thanks to Rock, because in the end he wants to save his adoptive father and wants to get rid of the pesky robot, he destroys the machine that rules (destroys) the world. Finally, the evil forces were eliminated, the world returned to peace, and humans and robots coexisted in harmony.
I think that the prototype of the movie existed in 1927, and I still feel amazed when I watch this animation now. There are about three kinds of relationships between humans and robots in the movie. One is to use robots as tools (or even slaves), and the representative characters in the movie are like big bosses; the other is to hate robots extremely, such as the adopted son Rock in the movie; Of course, there is also a person who regards the robot as a friend, such as the detective in the movie and his adopted son. These three relationships should always exist, and it is very likely that in the future there will be conflicts between humans and robots, or even between humans, humans and society, and society and society. Of course, will this contradiction eventually be reduced or eliminated? If you think about it, it is still possible, because you want to think about the conflict between whites and blacks in American society in the past, although it is not possible to make a similar comparison.
Another thought in the movie is the vulnerability of robots, according to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics: A robot must not harm a human being, or cause a human being to be harmed by inaction (stand by); unless it violates the first Laws, robots must obey human orders; without violating the first and second laws, robots must protect themselves. There are scenes in the movie that reflect these three laws, in which when Tima takes a pistol at Rock, Rock says to Tima, do you dare to do this? It means that robots must not harm humans. But many times, the laws or rules are good, but the actual situation is not. For example, when the BOSS activates the machine that destroys the world, the robots are disturbed and start to attack humans. Of course, the three laws of robotics that Asimov came up with only exist in his science fiction works, and do not seem to be accepted by the scientific community. If you consider robots as tools, it is clear that tools are not good or bad, and of course these three laws cannot be fulfilled. And if the robot is regarded as a human-like machine, then there are still situations in which humans harm people, and people do not obey laws and rules, so how can robots be required to do this? It seems that the three laws of robotics do not exist.
Finally, the film also raises the ultimate question of who I am, posed by Tima. This question is not easy to answer and will not be discussed for the time being.
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