Author: Wang Zhongzhong
The workday after each long vacation is a good time to think about philosophy. For example, this life problem: people live, why should they go to work?
If you also have this doubt, you may wish to make up for this recently concluded American drama "Severance".
This year's Apple TV momentum is good, in addition to this "Life Cutting", the spy war theme of "Slow Horses" is also a good harvest of word-of-mouth traffic.
Originally I was going to recommend it to everyone as a may-one list, but think about it, the holiday is still suitable for watching something light and pleasant. After all, my assessment of the show is: the dark fable of the beat worker.
After a holiday, the Douban score of "Life Cutting" has risen by 0.1 points (currently 9.1 points), and it has been imprisoned in the position of "9 points of excellence", and the stable happiness is just so.
Overall, "Life Cutter" is a near-futuristic soft science fiction work full of imagination but "lacking imagination".
Who is from all over the world, and confined to the working grid...
For example, its overall setting is that in the future, Lumon, a super-head enterprise comparable to the high-tech power of "X Fruit", invents a new technology - memory cutting.
Some of the employees within Lumont will undergo this surgery to form the company personality and daily personality, and when they step into the company door, their daily personality will fall into a deep sleep, and the body will be dominated by the company personality; after leaving the company, the daily personality will take over the body again, and this personality will not remember anything that happened in the company.
To put it simply, it is "legal" to create a dual personality. The dream of every contemporary worker has been realized: to let another "me" work instead of "me", I am only responsible for pleasure.
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As for the lack of imagination, it is because in such a powerful setting, the company is still implementing an 8-hour workday, and the face of 996 is gone.
It may seem like a joke of beating workers, but this setting is the core of the problem explored in the entire TV series: when ordinary people who do not want to be bound by work become "evil capitalists" who voluntarily enslave themselves, how will we balance work and life and escape self-materialization?
As the plot progresses, the "terrifying high-energy moments" of "Life Cutting" have the horror of different personalities fighting and grabbing the right to manage the body when the protagonist finds that he has another personality; there are also the management methods of large monopoly companies and the so-called "corporate culture spirit" that cannibalize human nature, like brainwashing to deprive individuals of their thoughts.
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In essence, "Life Cutting" is still a suspense thriller, the concept is not new, but what is special is that it completely shows the whole process of a "person" gradually collapsing after human beings are willing to accept slavery.
The most presented in the series is the various institutional disciplines encountered by these employees after the memory cutting, and the further self-exploitation brought about by the memory cutting.
Emotional punishment replaces physical violence, repeated brainwashing of work manuals and work ideas, complete separation between departments, working personalities and life personalities, ubiquitous monitoring, discipline and domination... Everything makes "me" a victim of "me".
Even if you seem to have a glamorous and free life, you are still controlled by everything.
Although until the end, there are still many suspenseful baggage that has not been explained. Of course, a better way to say it is "yet to unfold", after all, Apple TV+ has quickly announced the renewal of the second season of "Life Cutting", which will be broadcast in 2023.
Whether the future in "Life Cutters" will become a reality is difficult to say that there is no such possibility. After all, from creating mobile phones to being ruled by mobile phones, human beings have only spent more than 40 years.
The "modern age" wrapped in numbers and concepts, to find and define the self, can become a Chaplin who exposes the truth.
One of my favorite scenes in "Life Cutting" is that after the heroine Hayley was personally sent to the "cage" by herself in the first episode, Hayley's working personality was first awakened on the conference table without manners, and she was forced to answer five questions.
"Who are you?" Where were you born? Say the name of any place? What is Mr. Egan's favorite breakfast? What color are your mother's eyes? ”
"I don't know." "Unknown, full score answer."
Even if the numbness of ignorance is the best answer, there is always an instinctive desire for freedom hidden in the clues, and we will always find this.