"Moon" also has one of the most discussed themes, and that is how to define "person"!
Film critic Zhou Qingquan wrote in his personal column: ""Moon" can be regarded as a relatively successful science fiction film in recent years. The cost of this film is not high, but when it was released, it almost attracted attention at science fiction film festivals.
Every venue was packed and the reputation was very good.
It can be said that it is absolutely the right choice to use this film as the opening film of this year's Science Fiction Film Festival.
Because "Moon" can be regarded as pointing out a clear path for low-budget science fiction films. At least it proves that science fiction films do not need to rely solely on money for special effects. If the story is good and the creativity is successful, it can win everyone's favor.
How to save costs? First of all, use fewer actors. This film is basically a one-man show. It is really weird. If there is a communication conflict, there must be an opponent. He completed it with just one person, and it does not make people feel deserted or airtight.
The space also saves environmental costs. I think the number of sets he built is at the level of a sitcom. Of course, there are still some limitations. The outdoor scenes that have to appear are small models at first glance, which makes people feel less immersive. However, the flaws are not concealed, the story is better than
Everything is important. An excellent idea, as long as it starts and ends well with a unified style, and the other parts are reasonable, it can be as brilliant as a blockbuster.
In fact, the story is not complicated. If the clones are replaced by robots, the original intention will be greatly reduced. We still seem to value ourselves more. How sad it is for a person to be deceived, isolated, and enjoy a loneliness that can never be broken through.
As for the AI Bajie who is in the same situation, no one sympathizes with him, although he is also a victim. The reason is that the plot design is that adults are deceived, and the machine is informed, but the key is that we sympathize with the same kind. But
Thinking about it carefully, can the unlucky Wu Gang No. N be considered a human being?
Technology is changing with each passing day. It can be said that the topic of human cloning is familiar to most people. There are also many movies about human cloning.
But most of the time, we feel that some science fiction movies about human cloning are actually very science fiction and not realistic.
Although "Moon" is low-cost and does not have any particularly eye-catching special effects, and of course it does not feature special effects scenes, this movie makes people feel that it is very close to us.
Why do we feel this way? Because we have indeed been able to land on the moon, it has indeed been proven that the moon is rich in mineral resources, and we have indeed succeeded in bringing back lunar soil from the moon.
This proves that the plot in "Moon" is not fabricated out of thin air, but that it is very possible to realize it in the near future without the element of human cloning.
At the same time, the use of human cloning also has a very complete and self-consistent logic. In fact, to a certain extent, the movie is satirizing some of the current social realities. For example, in order to reduce costs and save costs, is it possible for capital to do such a thing?
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The answer is yes!
This is why this movie feels "real" to people.
What makes "Moon" different from other clones is that in our film and television works about "clones", there is often a scene where someone is lost outside due to an accident, and when he returns home, he finds that he has been "cloned"
Replacement, and the clone is living with his wife and children without anyone noticing. If the director had a bigger imagination, it would be revealed at the end that the protagonist himself is the "clone". It's scary to think about it...
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However, "Moon" tells the story of human cloning from beginning to end, and the focus is only on clones, or in other words, whether clones are considered "human" or not!
Due to current technical limitations, the identification of people's identities is still limited to physical signs, that is, fingerprints, eye patterns, etc. But fundamentally speaking, these things are just tools. With the development of technology, they are likely to be replaceable.
Manufacturable.
In principle, people should be just our memories and thoughts. In other words, even our brain is not the essence of a person, it is just a biological hard drive. The operating system stored in it is our way of thinking, outlook on life and world.
It is a characteristic of people. When they see one thing, different people will have different reactions and have different opinions, but the scene they see is objectively consistent. This is the reason why the same scene produces different reactions.
It is the essence of a person, and the other identifiable essence of a person is memory, the storage of our own experiences in our brains. The combination of these two points makes a person.
Returning to "Moon" and the protagonist Wu Gang, we will find that these two points are actually man-made for him.
Needless to say, his memory is fake. His way of thinking and outlook on life are also imitations, but does this mean that this artificial man is not a human being?
It seems that it cannot be said that there is an essential difference between him and AI Bajie. What is it? That is, he has plasticity, which means that although his past was created, his future can be changed. This
This is why even though a baby has no memory or personality, he is still a human being, just because he may have these two things. And an AI, such as Bajie, will not be any different from other Bajies until it is scrapped.
.So Wu Gang-N can be considered a human being, at least a processed baby.
This can be seen from the different personalities of different clones "Wu Gang". Clone No. 5 Wu Gang and clone No. 6 Wu Gang have obvious differences in personality.
And even if No. 6 spends the same three years there, the result will definitely be different from No. 5. This is the biggest difference with robots.
Different experiences and different emotions will lead to the formation of different personalities, and the same will also make their memories start to appear different.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Therefore, although clones have initial memories, they have different experiences and personalities. So there is no doubt that they are also different from humans in other aspects except lifespan.
There really is no difference. So in this respect, are human clones also "human beings"?
If we really agree with this conclusion, then there is no doubt that Wu Gang is a big tragedy.
He is a human being, but he does not have the slightest human rights, that is to say, he has no right to fight for his own happiness. The meaning of his existence is to create value for others selflessly and fearlessly like a machine, and he does not even need to be paid. It can be said that
It is a humanoid cow whose labor value has been selflessly extracted.
Although this is a science fiction film, the question he raised still has some significance. If life is really no longer the prerogative of God, then should the same kind we created have the same rights as us? This issue has been discussed all the time.
, but there has never been an answer, but technology will not stagnate because of ethics. What is supposed to come will still come. If I can keep my spirit alive by changing my body, then why not do it?
It’s a bit far to say. If a science fiction film can arouse these thoughts, then it is meaningful enough, not to mention that the money it spent is not too much. The times will not stop because of human will. For example, whether artificial intelligence will
It may really betray humanity in turn. This is also something created by us humans, and may even be faced with it sooner than clones. So will we still use it?
The answer is yes. When technology arrives, it will never be used. So how to use it and whether it can be used as equally as possible is a big question. It is a chronic disease of society to not suffer from shortages and inequality. When technology comes,
When acceleration completely divides the population, a new era may be coming."
Compared with Zhou Qingquan's more rational interpretation, there are more film reviews with emotional interpretation.
Unconventional film critic Liu Fei's film reviews are more emotional, or in other words, he looks at them more from the perspective of the audience.
"I have been looking forward to "Moon" for a long time. It has been promoted that it is a lunar version of "The Truman Show", but after watching it, it seems that it is not!
Similarly, everything has been arranged. The difference is that Truman in "The Truman Show" at least still has the power to break through the control of this world, but Wu Gang in "Moon" does not.
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He is even more sad, because Truman in "The Truman Show", his feelings are all fake, but at least some of them are true, while Wu Gang is fake from beginning to end, only with the robot
Those memories are real.
In fact, no one cares about him at all.
Because he is just a tool to the company, but to the so-called "family", he does not exist!
Closer to home, "Moon" made me watch it several times in a row, and I had different feelings every time.
When I watched it for the first time, my favorite scenes were when Wu Gang called his "family" on Earth on the 5th without signal interference, and when Wu Gang on the 6th watched the 5th and his "family" without any psychological preparation.
When recording a call.
It can be said that there are subtle differences in the reactions of the two Wu Gangs.
When No. 5 heard the little girl say that his wife was dead, his initial reaction was to think about it, and then asked in disbelief: "Are you sure?" Then No. 5 discovered that the little girl was the daughter he thought about day and night.
He blurted out: "Dear", then felt rude and changed his question: "How did your mother die?"
But on the 6th, when he heard the news of his wife's death, his body shook twice, as if he couldn't stand still, because for the 6th, his memory only lasted until one week after he came to the moon, and he and his wife had just separated.
For more than a week, this blow was too big for him. So it was unacceptable for him.
No. 6 was immersed in the grief of losing his beloved wife, and felt strange to the 15-year-old person in front of him, who should be his "daughter". It was not until the call was about to end that he took the machine in front of him and looked at his daughter.
, the doubts in his mind were instantly overwhelmed by the pain caused by the news of his beloved wife's death.
This is also the difference between the two clones, and it is also the most painful thing for them!
They all have the same starting point of memory, but No. 5 has three more years of memory than No. 6. Although they already know that those memories are implanted and are false memories, for them, they are not the same.
Maybe it really doesn't exist.
This is also the cruelest place, because their emotions are real, at least to them!
Even that was their only belief. The most terrifying part was that they discovered the truth, which was equivalent to giving them the biggest emotional blow!
Let the only belief collapse!
When I watched it for the second time, what moved me the most was No. 5 and No. 6 recalling the scene of their encounter with their wives in the car. No. 5 said one sentence, and No. 6 said one sentence after another. They felt exactly the same at that time.
, the little worries in my heart, the joy and disbelief that my wife happily accepted the invitation.
When people live in the world, even the closest people cannot share their hearts 100%. Even if two people experience a life together, their memories and feelings of every moment will be different. Only by becoming the same person can we stand together.
From the same standpoint, if you love the same person and worry about the same thing, you can have the same memories.
This is originally a beautiful thing, because finally there is someone who completely understands my heart and emotions. But in the movie, it is so sad. For No. 5 and No. 6, the beauty of meeting their lover for the first time,
The appearance of the lover is so real, but they are all fake. No. 5 has this memory, No. 6 has this memory, and No. 1 to No. 1000 have this memory. Such beautiful memories are fake and do not belong.
them.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But the company used these memories to make them willingly dedicate themselves until their death, or in other words, from the time they appeared to the time they died, they were being deceived.
Watching it for the third time, I saw that No. 5 entered the confidential system of the computer with the help of the robot Bajie. No. 5 saw the previous videos of Wu Gang. They began to lose their hair and have nosebleeds because their life span was almost over.
The end.
But, so what, they didn’t know. They still held up the photos of their wives and children with silly smiles, and innocently said to the computer, “Did you see that? I’m going back to see them!”
They calmly but happily got into the deep sleep machine in their hearts. The incineration process lasted only a few seconds, and they did not have any pain. In their last memory, they closed their eyes and looked forward to being with their lover.
When their children are reunited, they wish that time would fly to three days later when they have returned to Earth. At that time, they can watch live football, live a two-person world with their wives, go to the park with their daughters in their arms, or travel around.
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They don't suffer at all because they don't know anything.
The pain is for No. 5, because he knows that his life is over, he knows that he is a clone, he knows that neither his wife nor his daughter belong to him, and they have never belonged to him. He knows that the company will not give him away.
Back on Earth, he knew that the deep-sleep machine was actually an incinerator. He knew that Wu Gang No. 1-4 who looked the same as him had turned into ashes. He knew that hundreds or even thousands of him in the basement would have to repeat his miserable behavior.
He knew that the love in his mind was fake, and even the pain was fake, but it was so real.
It’s so desperate, because even the pain is fake!
Perhaps for No. 5, death is truly a relief at that time!
So I don’t know why, when I saw No. 5 closing his eyes, the sadness in my heart was not because of his death, but because of the collapse of his faith in his last days!
Maybe he doesn’t want to go back, and he also doesn’t want to continue to suffer the pain of his “false” existence and everything being fake!”
