I read the short story many years ago, but I didn't understand it at the time. After reading the extended version, I understood it all at once.

Dejon 2021-12-21 08:01:15

The builders of the underground refuge may be humans, other intelligent species, or artificial intelligence created by humans.

After the shelter was built, it was closed from the outside and was in a state of no one on standby. Once the earth is subjected to a nuclear attack, the shelter will start to operate and enter a state of operation: unfreeze embryos-clone-educate children-supervise adults- Death recovery (circulation).
The computer guides human beings in daily management.
Relying on drugs, human beings live like walking dead.

Human life under the guidance of computers is highly simplified, abstract, and formalized.
1. The object of confession is a computer, and the two parties do not interact, just let you vent alone.
2. Marriage is just a roommate. Humans must have marriage, but they cannot have sex. Sex depends on machines.
3. Human beings produce robots and create a violent machine to govern themselves.
4. News is just a form, and the talk show is completely like 2 mental patients talking nonsense.
5. Shopping in the mall, I bought an abstract polygon, thrown into the black box and disappeared when I got home.
6. The trial is more like doing arithmetic problems. Everything in the bunker is derived from computer calculations.

If you, like me, feel that relying on drugs, many of the above behaviors are completely unnecessary, there is only one explanation: artificial intelligence in order to restore the daily life of human beings, picture cats and tigers, shopping, confession, watching the news, it looks like something, in fact, the essence It is completely different from normal human activities. So it is speculated that this bunker was built by artificial intelligence that is friendly to humans.

Why is it such a model? Because this system can only be triggered when a nuclear war breaks out. Now that this mode is activated, it means that a nuclear war is coming, and human nature will inevitably destroy itself.
Therefore, only the current extreme model (medicine castration) is it possible to continue human genes.

It can also be understood as: the builders before the nuclear war saw through the nature of human beings and designed a system to raise the humans in the refuge like white mice. It seems very inhumane, but it is really helpless.

Waiting for the alien Rai to harvest his DNA? Is it a continuation of DNA?

The huge scorpion SEN encountered in the subway tunnel may be a by-product of nuclear mutation.
Do the apes and the humanoid creatures in clothes that appear at the end of the film indicate that the Earth after the nuclear war has entered a period of recovery?

Similar works:
Leibovitz's hymn
radiation series
subway series
"The Giver" (The Giver)

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Extended Reading
  • Leif 2022-04-20 09:01:48

    It has a huge influence on the subsequent series of independent sci-fi

  • Marcus 2021-12-21 08:01:15

    Look at people who have been playing this kind of movie in 7 years, how experimental is it, and whenever we see this kind of movie, you won’t understand why we are so much worse than others, in fact Huang Jianxin back then The dislocation is also very conscious, but later did not go on the road of science fiction. The impact of this film was very strong in the end, and it may not be understood back then. Now the visual explosion may not be shocked!

THX 1138 quotes

  • OMM: Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses.

  • OMM: Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.