Anthony Banderas and Doomsday Robots, such a lineup in Hollywood, will definitely make people feel weird, and it can be roughly deduced that it is definitely not a good-looking commercial blockbuster. But "Era of the Machines" is an authentic Spanish film, not produced in Hollywood, and if you know that Banderas is the number one man in Latin, then this team immediately becomes star-studded. Moreover, "Era of Machines" is not a Hollywood science fiction film, but a profound literary film with a sci-fi coat. If you watch this film with a sense of question, you will be deeply moved. Indeed, it did not live up to Anthony Banderas' handsome appearance and dedicated performance.
The advent of the "machine era" will inevitably be accompanied by the end of the "human era". "Machine Era" tells the story of the end of humanity and the rise of robots. The story has a framework similar to "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", but the arrival of the last days of mankind in "Earth of the Apes" is not a sin of mankind itself, and it stems from the activities of the sun and the increasingly active solar storms have released too many harmful particles. Pounced on the human earth. The earth is gradually deserted, and the countryside is no longer suitable for human growth. The last human beings are shrunk in the city, relying heavily on robots. Even beggars are assisted by robots.
In "Rise of the Apes", the humans and the orangutans go further and further from being close to each other, and for their own survival, the war between the two sides is inevitable, to the point of life and death. "Machine Era" can actually be called "the rise of robots". It also tells the ebb and flow of the relationship between robots and humans. It is also the demise of human beings and the rise of alien robots. But "Ape Ball" is a commercial production, and big scenes and big wars are indispensable, while "Era of Machines" is under the banner of robots, but there is no big scene. Instead, it goes in another direction, between humans and robots. The relationship is not a simple conflict problem, but more complicated. Humans want to destroy robots, but robots carefully search for their own lives. The theme has led to in-depth development and has become a kind of ethical film, which explores the direction of the development of human civilization, which can be said to be a sword.
A highly technological society has not only made it convenient for mankind, but also exhausted mankind's wisdom. In the era of human society in the last days, robots are ubiquitous, allowing humans to enjoy sufficient convenience and become an indispensable part of human beings. But the paradox of the relationship between machines and people is that after human civilization is highly developed, it flourishes and declines, reaching an irreversible path of extinction. At the same time, highly developed robots already have self-awareness and are heading for themselves. Path to evolution. And because they have the outer shell of the machine, they are not afraid of the radiation of solar storms, and do not need the power provided by animal and plant resources. They only need a certain amount of nuclear energy or solar energy to maintain the survival of the robot. The extinction of humans does not prevent robots from living on their own.
In this context, how should the relationship between humans and robots get along? It becomes a big problem. The three laws of robotics created by Asimov are still in effect at this time. These three rules are: the first rule, robots must not harm humans or sit back and watch human beings get hurt; the second rule, unless they violate the first rule, the robot must obey the orders of humans; the third rule, when it does not violate the first and second By law, robots must protect themselves. This is the principle that all sci-fi works currently follow, but the three laws in "Era of Machines" have been adapted into two laws: first, robots must obey human commands at all times; second, robots at all times Can't repair oneself and develop oneself.
Under such restrictions, even if the robot has its own wisdom and can exist without human beings, it is still a vassal of human beings. Although human beings are now on the verge of death, they can only linger and become extinct, and the era of robots is about to come. However, human beings who are dead but not stiff still hold down robots firmly and prevent them from evolving and developing. This is the fear that belongs to human beings, the fear of death, the fear of extinction, and the stubbornness of wanting to hold something makes humans feel uneasy. Even if it is dead, the accompanying robot must be taken to the grave. Just like the slave owners in ancient times, they had to bury their slaves when they died. The selfishness, indifference, cruelty, and ruthlessness of human beings are undoubtedly exposed. And the robot's loyalty to humans, the feeling that you have abused me thousands of times and I treat you like first love makes people look at them. In order to win their freedom, they did not choose to harm humans, but chose to leave. Now that humans have shrunk into a very small number of cities, the vast wilderness is enough to become an open space for robots to survive.
As for the entangled relationship between humans and robots, the film borrowed from the mouth of robots to say, "What you want is survival, and what we want is life. Survival is irrelevant, life is!" There is also such a dialogue, Jakob: I understand human beings, they will not stop until they kill all of you. Rachel: To die, you must first learn to live. The question of whether to live or to survive is thrown out and becomes a different pursuit between humans and robots. For humans, the awakened robots know the truth: humans are just savage monkeys. Humans have evolved from apes, but they have not changed their original intentions, and they have maintained their brutality. Robots want to live, they can only stay away from brutal and cruel humans. Just like the demise of dinosaurs, it ultimately led to the rise of apes, which in turn led to the rise of mankind. Nowadays, the self-inflicted mankind has exacerbated the self-destruction of mankind. Just like the demise of dinosaurs, the byproduct is the evolution of apes and the demise of mankind. The by-product is the evolution of robots, a trend that no one can resist.
With a heart of sympathy for robots, the director of "Era of Machines" filmed the sad song between the two centuries, and also filmed the kind of helplessness towards the irreversible trend of machine civilization. And through this kind of feeling, mock and criticize human behavior. In the film, the robot is also a human being. It already possesses complete human emotions. The most funny scene is the part where the robot Rachel dances with Jack cloth as a human. A dance is full of romantic sentiment. But slowly this sentiment turned into flirtation, Rachel in the dance actually had an orgasm, and used her machine to make the orgasm in the female ML, which made Jack Bu embarrassed. Oh Maga, robots are really omnipotent, what about it, what can stop them from looking for a space for their own life? The whole film looks very slow, but it is not a taste, it is actually a very rare problem-conscious film.
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