1.
The beginning of Dollhouse is very ordinary. A girl who seems to be in trouble, faced with the conditions put forward by the mysterious lady, and finally compromised after various entanglements.
"Actions have consequences."
"What if they didn't?"
These two sentences are lightly hidden at the end of the dialogue between the two as the central sentence.
The screen changes, two people are racing, the heroine actually fell (falling down very firmly), she dropped the helmet and continued to chase. The two finally stopped at a party. It turned out to be a birthday party prepared for him by a son who looked a lot like Ethan Hawke. The two seem to be very strange but very close. The man prepares a necklace for the heroine, and the heroine is happy and surprised. She left the venue and sat in a black SUV. The man watched her go away.
"It's time for her to go. Had to get to her carriage before it turned into a pumpkin." The
car drove into the underground parking lot. Under the guidance of an otaku-like man, she lay down on a device similar to a recliner. She said:
"I think I found something real." The
blue light was emitted from the top of the chair, and all the memories flashed back into fragments. It seems to be the life of the girl who dragged the car just now, from the party scene to the drag racing to the encounter with the man at school to the laughter of the child to the baby. The necklace in his hand slipped to the ground.
"Hello, Echo, how are you feeling?"
"Did I fall asleep?"
"For a little while."
"Shall I go now?"
"If you like."
The man drew it from the chair to burn firmware similar to a hard drive. With amnestics, she became like a baby.
The camera turns down, the transparent open hall, with green plants and mahogany floors, everyone walks in peace and tranquility, smiling.
The black uncle and the otaku scientist who escorted Echo back looked at these people through the glass.
"She's living in a dream."
"Whose dream?"
"Who's the next?"
2.
At first watching Dollhouse, it's easy to think that this is just another conspiracy science fiction drama, nothing special. The heroine started as Xiaobai, and later grew up to subvert the organization and save the world. Even if you guess the beginning, you still can't guess the end; even if you guess the end, you still can't help but be shocked by the grand three-views and thoughts and explorations that the whole show shows in the later stages.
If a person’s memory can be stored, deleted, implanted, or transferred, is that person still him or her? How important is memory to a person? We are tirelessly talking about forgetting, the more we remember, the more firmly we remember. It was mentioned in "Eternal Sunshine of the Beautiful Mind", "Inception", Oshii Mamoru, and Wachowski brothers and sisters.
Dollhouse also mentioned it, in a refreshing way. Of course, it covers more than just this.
3.
The main mission of this episode is that Echo implanted the experience of a negotiator Penn to help a billionaire rescue his daughter from the kidnappers through non-force means. This negotiator has been kidnapped and violated, and she is short-sighted. During the negotiation, the implanted personality became disordered, and she became unstable—the kid who kidnapped the little girl had done the same thing to Penn. Therefore, she is familiar with the criminal pattern and habits of this criminal. However, the personality of Penn was created. Toffer, an otaku scientist, combined the experiences of various people to create Penn, but he did not expect that this personality encountered when performing tasks is exactly the most feared memory of the personality of someone. , And the person with this primitive memory committed suicide because of fear. This also means that the Echo implanted in Penn is likely to self-destruct because of fear. Although the content of the fear is different (why the difference is a foreshadowing), the results of this fear are predictable. So Dollhouse wanted to stop the mission to troubleshoot, but was rejected by the guardians of Echo. Echo finally completed the task, and the child was born, and the moment she picked up the child, the door was kicked open, and a woman with a very exotic and strong costume simply solved the kidnapper. This girl, Echo saw her in Dollhouse and was shocked painfully—of course, this memory was also deleted.
Echo walked out of the computer room with an innocent face. She kept walking forward, unaware and not care about the world. However, when I watched Dollhouse for the second time, I still felt that her slight profile at the last moment revealed some kind of conscious information. In the shower room, she and the girl with the gun smiled at each other.
At the same time, the female Boss and the security supervisor were worried about a file with the cover saying: Alpha.
Five dolls in flowing pajamas walked to the bedroom, which was a shape similar to a five-corner, and they climbed into their respective sinking sleeps. cabin.
Another line of Dollhouse is that an agent is very concerned about the missing Caroline and has been tracking down. He knows Dollhouse and hopes to reveal that this organization rescues the girl (Klischee!).
At the end of the film, a man with naked torso is watching the video: The heroine of the video is Caroline, who has just gone to college, and is full of optimistic idealists. He laughs and says a little childish words to the family video.
4. In
theory, the first episode of each episode contains the most critical factors.
In the first episode of Dollhouse, there are three personalities: Caroline, Echo, Penn.
Caroline is the first girl, what did she commit, and Dollhouse reached an agreement to serve it.
Echo is Caroline's personality in Dollhouse, which can be regarded as a basic personality-used to implant other personalities, it is the so-called clean slate.
Penn is a typical implanted personality, she does not exist completely, because her existence is constructed in the memory combination of many people, and she is a personality created to complete the task.
Look, it's like Freud's id, ego, and superego.
A similar approach has been tried in The Matrix. Neo is an ordinary programmer Anderson in real life, but he is recognized as the savior. With his choice, Neo enters the real world and is constantly implanted with various new skills, step by step towards God.
5. The
first episode of Dollhouse made me hear Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" for the first time, the remix version. Lady Gaga was not popular in every corner of the year, and Taylor Swift's "Love Story" has not been written yet. And when I discovered one day that the flaming red lips with the bow on the head, who never wear pants, was actually the singer of the song that was played during the Echo dance in the first episode of Dollhouse, I was surprised: It turns out that this song has been popular for so long.
The name Echo is very meaningful. In Greek mythology, the goddess of the mountain forest who had a crush on the beautiful boy Narcissus and died at the water's edge, finally turned into an echo. In Dollhouse, Echo was the carrier of various personalities from the beginning, one mission, one life, clean, start again, she is just the echo of different voices.
When the human brain, like a hard disk, can be erased and stored and deleted at will, who is himself?
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