walk to the water

Liam 2022-03-30 09:01:07

I watched it with my friends a few days ago. In fact, it is like a sci-fi suspense brain-burning movie that requires thinking. I would recommend watching it alone. Of course, for the sake of leisure time after dinner, that's another matter. Off topic hmm

Since the beginning of the 20th century, similar futuristic sci-fi films have emerged in an endless stream, such as "Blade Runner", "Robot Butler", "Ex Machina", "The Matrix", "Edward Scissorhands" and so on. For the expectations and worries about the future development of science and technology.

In order to save his wife and children, the male protagonist uses the power of science and technology to convert their memories into data, artificially cultivate their bodies, and create a wife and children who are the same but different from before. During this period, he also experienced difficult choices. Due to insufficient containers, he must Abandoning a child, in order not to let the wife and children find out or even tamper with their memory. He deceived himself and his wife at the same time. As the saying goes, telling a lie requires countless lies to make up for it. When his superiors plan to take back the "experimental product", he has to face the reality. The wife who served him dinner, The kids who asked him "Who is Zoe" were nothing more than experiments he made. But when looking at each other through the window, he will be very confused again, the scene in front of him is so real, but he feels illusory. At the end of the film, the robot with the male protagonist's thinking as the core and the superior who was mechanically reborn after death use this technology to turn "rebirth" into a commercial product, which will be released for sale. The male protagonist lives in seclusion with his wife and children.

At the end of the film, everyone seems to be happy, but thinking about it is very scary.

In fact, there are many successful cases of genetic modification and cloning, such as Dolly the sheep. We already have the basic capabilities of artificial humans. But ultimately failed to pass the proposal. In terms of social ethics, human clones do not belong to any category. They have no parents, siblings, and no biological growth and development process. Its memory can be tampered with and filled, it cannot exist among us as a person, but it is so similar to us. Nor does it delimit the general categories from a biological point of view, but he has a mind. Scientists will give them a set of theoretical systems for their smart brains and healthy bodies to think independently, that is to say, they have the ability to improve themselves and can quickly summarize the laws more quickly than ordinary people. For their own people, they began to need more space, living environment, and living conditions. Then human beings are very likely to become the eliminated one in the natural law of survival of the fittest.

So, when intelligent technology develops to the end, how should human beings behave?

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  • Erwin 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    3.5/5 Disastrous screenplay despite a few good ideas. Felt surreal and touched to see Keanu's face for the first time on the silver screen. Somewhat there is always a profound sadness in his eyes. PS It's traumatic to be reminded that the character of William reflected Keanu's own experience too.

  • Rosario 2022-03-22 09:02:27

    Presumably he also wanted to resurrect his deceased fiancee and children.

Replicas quotes

  • Will Foster: Okay. All right. That just happened.

  • Ed Whittle: And if we make a mistake, I need to know you are prepared to terminate.

    Will Foster: We just won't make a mistake.