Marx once said: "The productive forces created by the bourgeoisie in its less than one hundred years of class rule are greater and greater than all the productive forces created by all previous generations." And I think the most important of them all is The reason is the rapid development of technology during this period. The use of machinery and industrial products has greatly improved work efficiency, thereby enabling society to operate and develop at a high speed. It has to be said that if there were no three industrial revolutions, our society might still be stuck in the feudal era of "monarchical authority". However, technology, which represents human wisdom, often plays the role of "reversing the wheel of history", which makes us worry about whether technology is the god of mankind or the god of death.
Obviously, Otomo Keyang is also worried about this issue. The background of "Steamboy" is placed in the middle of the nineteenth century, which is called "the period of primitive accumulation of capital". People are desperate to develop science and technology, and they have no humanistic feelings at all. Humans frantically plundered all the resources they needed, and "interest first" and "conquer the world" became the most popular slogans at that time. The desire for human development is so pure and so barbaric. The "Steam City" in the film represents the primitive desire for conquest of human beings that is spawned by technology.
A foreign scholar once commented on today's scientific and technological society: It is really strange that with the development of science and technology, human wisdom is regressing. Looking around the world, it is not difficult to find that the gap between technology and morality is gradually widening, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger, and even the convenience of technology makes morality begin to shrink. Scientists always reassure themselves that human morality will adapt to the development of science and technology.
But it's actually a ridiculous thing. Humans create a "monster" with ambition, and then want to control it with "morality"? This is obviously not possible. History has proved that in the face of naked desire, human "morality" is often weak and powerless.
When people have the power to be infinitely close to God, that is the most dangerous, because it will give people the illusion that they are God. The movie "Heroes, When the Country Needs It" once had such a line: We never know the will of God, and when we pretend to know, we will bleed. We have the power of "God", but not the will of God. Technology is not guilty at all, it just completes one program after another in the formulaic operation of simple physics, but whether this program saves or causes death, it cannot be held responsible. At this time, it is necessary for the manipulator of technology to maintain a cautious and adoring attitude towards it.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist's father and grandfather finally disappear into the steam city they designed. In reality, humans will eventually be devoured by the "monsters" they create - if we continue to go our own way. And the snow that the steam turns into may also be God's cleansing of this filthy world.
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