No no no, you are not dummy data!

Verlie 2022-03-25 09:01:10

As the title, here, I want to think from another angle, maybe even achieve the effect of dispelling doubts.
At the end of the film, we see that the male protagonist has finally ascended to the upper level of the so-called "real world", and he has achieved his wish to live happily with our female protagonist. At first, I was very disappointed when I saw this kind of warmth: the part where the truth appeared was clearly very uncomfortable in my heart, depressed by the limitations of thinking, but it was very "enjoying" such a "pleasure", (I don't know Does anyone feel the same way as me) At the end of the film, I see a romantic happy ending, and I'm sure there are a lot of people who are as disappointed as I am, and have been longing for that "ultimate thinking fun" that is suddenly interrupted Now, halfway through, there is a perfect and happy ending that none of us want to see. What we long for, shouldn’t it be the ending where the hero struggles hard between reality and fantasy, and finally has to give up struggling due to limited thinking? ?
The latter is so good, it points out the eternal limitations of thinking, it rips the word meaning to shreds in front of you, it makes you understand "you are nothing", what a terrible feeling! But instead of making up a lie, we'll find out in the end; it's better to point our noses and say, "You're just a bunch of electronic components!" Sometimes reality is much better than an empty fantasy, and sometimes it's not...
so , the director weaved a huge fantasy for us at the end? To relieve everyone's inner depression? Although, many people may think that this is definitely a huge failure.
At first, I thought so too. I was so obsessed with truth and falsehood that I couldn't do it. At the end of the day, I thought of a huge flaw in this film: when the manipulator of the previous world was possessed When he dies, the consciousness of the manipulated person will come to the world of the upper-level manipulator. This slot is also the reason for the warm line at the end.
I suddenly found out what it was trying to tell us!

"When the manipulator of the previous world dies when possessed, then the consciousness of the manipulator will come to the world of the manipulator on the previous level"

Yes, what I want to tell you is that there is such a possibility that there is a virtual person numbered 12345, whose consciousness has crossed to the upper world due to an accident, yes, this layer may not be real either , then there may be a virtual human number 12345, whose consciousness has crossed to a higher world due to an accident... I believe he will see the real world, at least, some people think that he was once a The person who sets the data is already in the same world as him. This shouldn't just be a slot for irrelevant entertainment, but the director has something to say!
So what did the director say at the end, I think the director has already said by the actor's mouth: "They are not data at all, they have life, love, and thoughts", yes, they are not virtual people at all, they and you Like me, they are living people, from the moment of creation.
So I would say that we too are like them (maybe from the upper world).
So what I want to say is, what is life? What can represent us as human beings? Not hands, not feet, but our consciousness, and consciousness, and consciousness alone, is who we are. It is mentioned in the video that consciousness can be downloaded. Does it mean that consciousness is also data, then we are data in the first place! Everyone inside and out is just data, and there is no virtual world on the upper or lower level at all, because we are only data from beginning to end, and those virtual worlds are the same as you. , are all data, and you don’t need them to be awesome; similarly, maybe those higher-level people, like you, are just a bunch of data. So it's not a progressive relationship at all, but a parallel world, and it's just a question of whether to pull the plug.
So it's not the previous life, but another life...
So in fact, everyone is not data, they are all living people!


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The Thirteenth Floor quotes

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: Why are you fucking with our lives?

  • [last lines]

    Jane Fuller: There's so many things I have to tell you about, Doug.