This is a great work. But there are a few points to note:
1. This film is the first film directed by George Lucas. It was filmed in 1971, so it has been 40 years ago. The picture quality is not ideal, and even the extreme white picture does not have much beauty at all. Those who want to see it, please Make your own discretion.
2. This movie is not a commercial movie, there is no big scene, and there is no detailed plot explanation. The first 20 minutes I watched this movie, I tried to change the disc, but after half an hour, there was a little plot ups and downs. , Please consider it for yourself if you bring KILLTIME.
3. This is a serious movie. Those who like to watch Hong Kong and Taiwan comedy movies, American blockbuster movies, Indian song and dance movies, and small fresh art movies, please bypass and automatically ignore and consider it.
4. Those who like "We", "Brave New World", "1984" and dystopian movies, and those who like future social composition and thinking topics, you must watch this movie.
Basic plot: The underground world of the future is a production base. Here, there are cold monitors and people with shaved hair, or clones. The people living here rely on the tranquilizers and mind control drugs issued to them by the upper-level rulers to maintain a stable mood. People have no gender, no name, no joy, anger, sorrow, or sorrow. There is only one job number. They are engaged in heavy and highly stressed jobs every day. Collective labor. The protagonist, code-named THX1138, is one of the millions of people/clones here. Inspired by a female roommate, he stopped taking the drugs that he was given every day, so his rigid thoughts began to recover, and he began to His female roommate developed a sense of admiration. When the two had sex and were convicted of rape, they also stopped taking sedatives for work errors and were sentenced to imprisonment by the court. The upper ruler disposed of the female roommate. She turned into a specimen in a glass bottle. Seeing that he had a complete awakening of what a human thought should be here, he met with two cellmates and began his escape. --Okay, this is the introduction behind the pirated disc I copied. ======================================== The dividing line after viewing ===== ====================================
Topic 1: Forward-looking and foreseeable
I want to analyze this great work from several aspects, among which my most intuitive feeling after watching this film is that it is indelibly forward-looking and foreseeable. A film made in 1971 is full of imagination from the screenwriter to every detail. Lucas is the screenwriter and the director. At that time, the Chinese people had not yet woken up from the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution. It was the fifth year of the Cultural Revolution. They were still busy criticizing Lin Pikong in the dance of loyalty. They had just established a ping-pong diplomatic relationship with the United States. Dr. Kissinger came. Travel to China. Conversely thinking about other people's works, in that era, we and our country were indeed too far behind. In the movie, Lucas envisioned that all the world in the future will be manufactured by machinery. That era should have been the era when large computers were just designed. Even the concept of PC did not enter people's field of vision until 1984. How advanced. In addition, there are a few details. Feeding medicine to the male protagonist and scrubbing the body are all fully automated robotic hands. It is estimated that these technologies have not entered the field of life applications; there is no need to take off the clothes in the bath; there are projections and communication signals, which can be used The remote control or even the idea of operating signals to communicate with it; the anticipation of the biological cloning replication technology; the EEG and thinking behavior analysis, do you really want a polygraph? And there are monitoring instruments everywhere, and someone is monitoring every move of human beings. Does it feel familiar? Does the use of extremely white scene color resemble the "minimalist design" of Steve Jobs' Apple? The 1971 movie was completely predictable, and Lucas was great.
Topic 2: Human body number, and the coldness of institutionalization
People no longer have names, just letters and numbers represent a living body. Anything other than this is superfluous, even the wall has no decorative objects other than the number of the building, the number of the room. There is no difference between men and women. They are all bald in overalls. If you go out without a badge, you will be punished. Millions and hundreds of millions of human bodies are numbered 1 and 2. Everyone cares about the feelings of others. People take the initiative to take tranquilizers to achieve this. Work efficiency is maximized, there are no emotions, no extra thoughts and expressions. Does it feel familiar? Isn't that the way our working environment is? Little tellers working in banks, no one cares what the name of the girl sitting at the window is. We often call them the number and number of the teller. We use the rank to distinguish their functions in the business position, and only understand the business. Public business knowledge, personal savings only understand personal savings business, the division of labor has become more and more detailed. We assess their various perverted assessment methods such as "how much money is counted", "error rate", "accepting business time" and so on in one minute. We have seriously regarded people as machines. Most of them have no facial expressions and smile. It is 8 teeth that are forced out. The children of these tellers have no time to go to the bathroom at work. Everything is done according to the rules. Knowing that you are her colleague for many years, you need to show your ID to do business for you. There are so many musts and regulations. Their limited youth is consumed in these small positions. In a blink of an eye, a few years later, they became aunts. They were lucky enough to be dispatched to the internal operation positions to do some basic things. Even if they were not lucky, I have also seen most of 40 uncles sitting. The personal savings counter of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China frowned. The small counter was not even the width of his shoulder. Have you seen it? This is our life. Having said that, I’m not much better. I clock in and out of get off work every day, and pay the salary at the beginning of the month. It’s just that the things I deal with every day are a little bit more technical and I think I’m a bit shit. But I also often wake up in the middle of the night, dreaming that one day I will be out of this environment and will have nothing. So every day I keep reminding myself not to just value the work in front of me and accumulate resources and platforms. Will I be able to escape from this environment as a male pig's feet without hesitation and run towards the unknown future.
Topic 3: Commercial contribution rate determines the meaning of a person’s existence
This topic is a bit similar to the last one. In the movie, the male pig's feet repeatedly chant, pray, broadcast reminders before going to work, and a concept that is repeatedly mentioned in TV-like equipment is "your personal business value and contribution rate." The problem, this problem has developed to the present is the problem we have to face every day. When the male pig's feet prayed and reflected, he said that I didn't do a good job today, I almost made a mistake when I wasn't concentrated, and I didn't give more value to myself and so on. Seeing this, I can’t help but feel cold behind my back. Damn, I sometimes reflect on it this way, but the object of reflection is that I am not a god. A few years ago, I was tortured by work and became ridden with diseases. I haven't gone to the hospital today for the problems that I found out in the physical examination the previous year. We often go to the unit to work overtime in the middle of the night and go home early in the morning. We check whether our workload is saturated every day before we get off work, and whether we are worthy of the salary that XX Bank gives me. We ask that every document we produce is perfect enough. . Until we fall ill, we may not remember that we are just one person after all. Until the end of the movie, I think it’s funny that I know that male pig’s feet can’t beat the robot police, but when he was captured alive only a few steps away, the upper ruler exceeded the "single person’s budget online" because of the hunt. , And ordered the robot police to abandon the hunt and allow them to flee. This ending was designed so wonderfully. I remembered the line in the motto of a bank I once worked for, "Allegiance to shareholders, and contribute the greatest personal value to shareholders." Damn, isn't that the way it is. No industry is more ruthless than this industry. The customer manager evaluation indicators of the branch are already calculated based on your contribution rate and other indicators. Deposit loans, daily average deposits, Japanese army loans, intermediate business income, incremental rankings, all kinds of disgusting It reminds you not to rest at all times. Recently I chatted with my old colleague and classmate. He also changed his job and did business approval. I asked him why he wanted to do business. I used to do business in the branch for about 300,000 yuan a year easily. Later, he sighed. In a tone of voice, "The profits I create for the bank are far more than the 300,000 to 400,000 in a year, and more than a fraction. However, the bank has exhausted the energy of the customer manager and has to consider its own long-term development." To be honest, this is also my best effort. I feel disgusted with the reason to be an account manager at a branch, but after all, we are just burning our youth in another form and contributing our strength to the so-called socialist cause. Isn't it nauseous?
Topic 4: The form of God's existence, and the border between prisons
You will see a very interesting plot. A male pig’s feet prays to God because of his lack of “duty” work. No one listens to him in the prayer room. He is the only one who talks to himself. God is an electronic recording MP3 with a single Replay of the song, so a few clichés, without any guidance. When the prisoner of the male pig's feet ran to the integration center, he knelt down and prayed when he saw a huge image of God, and then he discovered that the God was just an electronic device, nothing. In the movie, Director Lucas is an anti-god. He believes in God or something. It is just the best way for the upper-level rulers to brainwash and enlighten civilians. Therefore, everyone in the movie takes tranquilizers and has no thoughts, just blindly knowing. Obey and accept. But in the end, he was very pleased to see this prisoner of male pig's feet. He killed a person who prevented him from escaping in front of the giant electronic screen of God. He rushed out of the cage of his thoughts and rushed out of the real world. . This person is also kind. Finally, he stopped at the station to play with the children. He was photographed by the face recognition system and captured alive. He must have become a specimen in a glass bottle later. To be honest, I have always believed that gods are a way of brainwashing to imprison mankind, be afraid, but restrain man’s normal behavior; Believe in yourself; but in the end, the director only used this method to reveal the hypocrisy of the upper-level rulers, and there is no anti-god intention. On the contrary, the movie ironically tells the audience that God has been turned into an electronic product by your ruler. As for whether you believe it or not, that is your business. We are only responsible for creating Gods. Just believe me. Incomparable reality, incomparable reality.
Topic 5: The outside world
At the end of the film, the only son of a male pig's feet stands in red in the sunset. What the outside world looks like is actually not important in my personal opinion. This is not the point of the film. The point is to remind each of us whether we have the courage to escape and how to escape. I discussed this topic with some film friends, and everyone generally felt that the outside world was a Chernobyl-like world swept away by nuclear weapons, a barren and nothing; and I think this possibility is also possible, because Such a broken picture, there is not even a manhole cover, human beings living in such a deep place, should be to escape the consequences of certain races or certain disasters on the ground. In fact, no matter what, escaped is the meaning of this movie.
Topic 6: The controller, who is the high-level ruler?
This topic was not mentioned in the movie. I watched a post interview with the film by the director in recent years. Lucas said that he didn't want to explain this issue when he made the film because the narrative is more realistic. Today, "New Weekly" published an article called "Compared with reality, all heavy flavors are small and fresh", which is almost exactly what it means. Nothing is more cruel than reality, and it is like the boss in 1984. The supervising police that we see are not even human. The police are just machines that only know how to execute, including work with a bald head. They don’t need to know how to think. Just take medicine to paralyze the mind and execute orders. Thinking is left to the upper-level rule. class. This is the most important aspiration of totalitarianism and the ruling class. The upper level is responsible for creating gods and fools, the supervisor is responsible for execution, and the labor is responsible for the production of labor. Everyone takes tranquilizers to eliminate all senses and thoughts. Do you feel that if you work for a long time, you will lose a lot of personal interest. On the one hand, there is no time, and on the other hand, boring work consumes your energy and makes people no longer think about a better life. Therefore, it is precious for people to have dreams, especially adult dreams, which are lovely and respectable. It was 11:30 in the evening after watching this movie. At that time, I basically started to prepare for bed. It has been many years since I have been getting older. Hard work is one aspect. I don't want to face the more real thoughts and consciousness in my dreams, which is the key. When it comes to the subject matter of the movie, it is nothing more than the so-called "dystopia", which guides us to think about some unreasonable aspects of the real society. Such subjects have been particularly numerous in recent years, but as a 1971 work, it is still rare. of. =================================== Perception line============ ============================
Regarding the practical significance to me, I decided to gradually give up the time spent on the Internet, give up the demand for unnecessary consumables, give up soap opera comedy movies, give up chicken movies and some boring video games. Life is limited in time. Whether you are riding a bicycle or driving a Bentley, whether you are in a cave by the Yellow River or in a tall office building, remember that the quality of life is the most important thing. While we are still young, we should experience more life, read more, and perceive more. I want to travel, record more feelings to benefit my children and family, and not in vain to come here in this lifetime. Calculating the time we can live, it is only 40 years left to live to 70 years old. All entertainment is superfluous, and there are many important things we need to do. In addition, I also want to tell my dear family and dear friends that we are not spending much time together. The time I can spend with you is only a few years for the elderly, and the time that I can experience with you, parents. It’s only twenty or thirty years. Friends and I can only spend time with you and cherish these years. My lover, I can only rely on you to accompany you for forty years, so remember to be loyal, kind, and tolerant. , And remember that we can only live for decades.
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