People love to deceive themselves with this kind of confused thinking: often when we encounter misfortune because of our careless behavior, we will blame our misfortune on the sun, moon and stars, as if we were destined to be evil. Fools are also by the will of God. ------Shakespeare's "King Lear"
The ninth episode of the second season of "Westworld" was updated on time today. It can be said that this episode is the most abusive episode since the show's inception. I even think that the screenwriter of this episode is Uncle George Martin, because it is so heartbreaking Hefabento's salacious operation is really unexpected. After we felt the warmth of human nature in the last episode, this episode immediately made us feel the coldness of human nature, which is really wonderful.
William
In this episode, William's POV takes up a lot of time, and we see the unraveling of several mysteries surrounding William.
In the previous episodes, there have been many scenes of water droplets, hands reaching out of the bathtub, and running upstairs. I said at the time that this should be the scene when William's wife, Juliet Delos, committed suicide. The reason why she committed suicide was because Juliet saw William's true face.
In the story of the first season, I always thought that the reason why William turned into a demon-like man in black was because the mental shock he suffered when he first entered Westworld made the already fragile and sensitive Phoenix male William Towards the opposite of his own moral values.
But from this episode, we can see that the devil's seed has been hidden in William's heart for a long time. The trip to Westworld has become the fertilizer for this seed, allowing it to grow rapidly, and William happily accepts the devil's seed. The hug, the reason for all this, is still because of William and Juliet's marriage.
In the real life around us, we often see or hear stories of some men and women with very different family conditions breaking through many obstacles to come together, and most of these stories have not changed well after a period of testing. The reason is simple, the discomfort caused by the crossing of social hierarchies.
At the beginning of this episode, we can see that even though William has become the king of the capital giant Delos, even though he has climbed to the highest stratum of the society, he is still ridiculed by those who were originally born in this stratum. What you have worked so hard to get is nothing but what other people are born with, which is a lot of excitement for anyone, let alone William who has an anti-social personality.
But William is a smart man. He uses superhuman willpower to control himself not to attack in the real world, but to vent this resentment in Westworld, which is why William behaves so brutally and violently when he becomes the man in black , because it is his nature, and this nature is darkened by consuming too much pain. And Juliet finally decided to leave this world just because she found out that her husband was such a ferocious monster.
The theme of this episode seems to be " Walking Alone ", with several important characters having to face the upcoming answers alone. In the first half of William's scene in this episode, we see that the father and daughter are deeply in love. The daughter Emily knows what her father has done, but her love in her heart still makes her want to recall William's humanity and stay away from this film. Sinful land.
But then, we saw the most distressing scene since the show started, William shot and killed Emily, because he always suspected that Emily was an artificial human made by Ford.
In fact, if Emily had read the card seriously, she should have understood what kind of person her father was. We will see later, when Julia reads the memory card that recorded William's behavior in Westworld. , the screen shows William's three main symptoms: persecution, delusions and paranoia .
Let's think about it again, since the second season, Ford's ghost has appeared many times, constantly reminding William that this is a game designed for him alone, and this repeated suggestion reinforces the distortion in William's heart and makes him stubborn. He thought that all accidents were planned by Ford in secret, and all the people who appeared were also artificial humans carefully created by Ford, so Emily's tragedy seemed to be inevitable.
From this, we can also see the viciousness of Ford, who took advantage of William's personality flaws and turned it all into a beautiful trap, allowing William to plunge into the dark, even if the truth appeared in the process. People and things will eventually be swallowed up by the devil in William's own heart.
There is also a scene in this episode worth noting, that is, on the night of Juliet's suicide, Ford also appeared at William's reception. We all know in the previous episodes that Ford would never leave Westworld, but at this time he appeared beside William and handed over the card that recorded William's atrocities in Westworld, the reason for all this Very simple, that is, the entire "Westworld" cyborg riots have started since then.
The conversation between the two also confirmed another previous conjecture of mine, that is, William's experiment on James Delos was successful, but because William gave up the experiment, the results of the experiment were mastered by Ford, and the results were controlled by Ford. This began to design the chain of events that followed. And Ford's intention to give the card to William is actually very clear. He knows that this card will definitely be discovered by William's relatives, thus forcing William to enter Westworld again to welcome his "last game".
After the role of Emily debuted in the first year, everyone generally believed that "the father and daughter must have a fake ", but my intuition has always made me think that William is the "fake" one, and the plot after that has also continued. Stick to my suspicions. In this episode, although William has passed the inspection of the machine, there are still several shots that show that William seems to be a human being.
In Bernard's scene in this episode, we can see that the interface of the artificial human connection system is buried in the front of the forearm, and William's forearm also has symptoms of trembling and pain several times for no reason. And when William was about to commit suicide, his forearm seemed to have an abnormal reaction again.
"Where does choice come from?" "If you keep pretending, you'll forget who you are."
Although the camera stopped abruptly when William dug out his forearm, the few words that appeared when he committed suicide still make people have to think, maybe William is really an artificial person, maybe, this game Ford made is actually It is a real deep "awakening" of the self-consciousness of the android.
Bernard, Maeve, Teddy
Although there are three other main characters in this episode besides William, in fact, these three characters are not talking about themselves, but about the ghost behind them - Ford.
In Bernard 's part, the ghost Ford has been instilling in Bernard the idea that any human being is evil and ugly, and they will never agree to own the world in peace with the androids. Bernard, who still maintained Arnold's compassionate soul, fiercely resisted Ford's influence on him, and Ford seemed to have anticipated it long ago, and even when faced with Bernard's deletion of him, he did not panic in the slightest. Except for the Ford in my mind, go on the road alone.
In Teddy 's scene, although the ghost Ford did not appear, he sneaked into Teddy's mind in another way. This can be seen when Teddy unconsciously gave up shooting when facing the native. Come out, and at the end, we also hear Ford's voice, and it was he who awakened Teddy's innermost memory, bringing back the memory of this warrior who had been transformed by Dolores.
And all of this also awakened Teddy's self-consciousness. He painfully discovered that it was his beloved who turned him into a demon, and the love that once seemed to be full of falsehoods. In the end, Teddy chose to commit suicide, leaving Dolores alone and on the road alone.
In Maeve 's part, the ghost Ford poured out his heart to Maeve, and as I expected in the first season, Ford did not notice Maeve's "abnormality", but gave the character the greatest freedom . The other androids are all chess pieces, only Maeve is Ford's "child". Ford hopes that his "child" can walk out of this dark land and become a real person in the outside world. Unexpectedly, this "child" chose to stay for the sake of his "child".
Ford once opened a door for Maeve, a door to the real world at that time, but Maeve chose to turn back at the door. Now, watching her child be disemboweled, Ford once again opened a door for her, and this door is the key to ruling this android world. Since then, Maeve has really become a world leader in this world. "God".
So let's talk about Ford, who was seen as a god in the first season, and is seen as the devil in this season. And the plot of this episode gave me a new understanding of the role of Ford. I think he is neither God nor the devil, but very much like an image played by his actor Anthony Hopkins- Cannibal Doctor Hannibal Lecter in the Silence of the Lambs trilogy .
In fact, if you study the "Silence of the Lambs" series carefully, you will find that Hannibal Lecter is not just a perverted ogre. He has a high IQ and EQ, he knows the context of human nature like the back of the hand, and he is also well versed in the solidification and darkness of human social hierarchy. Facing this ugly world, he did not set off the violent storm of revolutionary envoys, but was good at planning, hiding himself, looking for his reliable believers among the crowd, and using various behaviors that the mainstream society would not pay attention to to remove the scum, and carry out a It is a very detached and self-improving "human transformation".
On the other hand, Ford in "Westworld" seems to be a character with the same purpose as Hannibal Lecter. As an elite among human beings, he is also well aware of the ugliness of human beings, so he also carried out a "revolution", and in this revolution, he has always been hidden behind the scenes, as a ubiquitous ghost, to believers With "spiritual guidance".
It seems ironic that all of the androids’ actions against humanity these days are basically following Ford, the human being. But we all know that human nature is inherently a coexistence of good and evil. God and the devil are actually in the same shell. What artificial humans are constantly looking for is the awakening of self-consciousness and the possession of "humanity", but after they have obtained "humanity" , it will inevitably become an "ugly" species again, then, what is the meaning of this revolution?
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