If you want to ask the most brain-burning and good-looking science fiction drama in the past 10 years, it must be "Westworld". Although the rating of the first two seasons is not 9, whether it is the story setting or the theme intention, it can be called the "epic era drama" level.
The story takes place in the world of the future, when The Dalos Company, led by Ford and Arnold, developed a "high-tech adult theme park" project.
In this theme park, there are countless bionic robots that share a common name called the receptionist.
Theme parks exist for the dignitaries of high society. In this park, visitors can experience life in various eras and trigger quest branches like a game.
Because money has been paid, visitors can do anything to the receptionist in the park, and all the sick desires that cannot be vented in real life can be satisfied in the park...
Because of this curious and inhuman inferior setting, "Westworld" received a lot of attention as soon as it was broadcast. The worldview in the story is huge, and as the plot progresses, the relationship between humans and robots becomes more and more delicate.
Humans who stand in the dominant position gradually lose their right to speak, but the manipulated robots become more and more powerful.
The setting of the story is simple, and the phrase "the duel between humans and robots" can be described. But the ideas contained are very profound. There are reflections on artificial intelligence and ethics, and there are also revelations about evil human nature.
Coupled with the suspenseful non-linear narrative technique in the series: the first half of the story lays out a lot of details, and in the last episode, all the details are brought together to reveal the truth, thus creating a sudden and enlightened viewing pleasure.
The coexistence of profundity and suspense makes Westworld a well-deserved sci-fi blockbuster for HBO.
The narrative focus of the first season is the awakening of the machine receptionists in the park. Among them, there are three very representative figures, namely the young girl Deloris, the old bustard Maeve, and the robot engineer Bernard. After all the changes, they find themselves just an NPC character in the game, unwilling to be controlled, they begin to rebel, and the first hunt between humans and robots is ushered in.
In the second season, the story escalates, and the robots have the idea of "destroying humans", just as humans abused them in the park. Violence, killings, and so on abound in large-scale shots. The final melee is bright and good-looking, making the audience remember it.
In the third season of this return, the story is even more exciting. Although only one episode has been updated so far, judging from the details that have been thrown out, this will be a story of a "human world and a robot world" that has once again begun to fight.
The first to play was Deloris.
At the end of the second season, she successfully escapes paradise and enters the human world.
Act quickly, have a clear goal, and seduce the director of the most important "Insite Company" in the human world-
This company has a super-strategy computer called Rehobo, and human life is controlled by this computer. As long as you can get a way to operate this computer, you can completely stomp the human foot...
Delores's purpose was to create a new god. In the story, her expression is calm and determined, saying that she wants to be "the origin of a new species."
Humans created artificial intelligence, but in the end, artificial intelligence came up with its own ideas and wanted to replace humans as gods. This kind of discussion of technology and ethics is very interesting and profound, closely related to contemporary life, and it is easier for the audience to feel empathy.
Probably to accommodate a new audience, the first episode of the third season doesn't use a non-linear narrative and looks simpler. But simplicity doesn't mean the story isn't exciting—
This season features a new character, Caleb, who is the lower class of human society. Seemingly free, it is actually tormented by the social rules of the "fractional system". If you don't meet the score standards set by society, you can't get a good life.
From the concept of the fractional system, we vaguely know that there is a world like paradise in modern society. Robots are controlled by humans, and humans are controlled by another higher being.
What exactly is this "higher being"? This will be the biggest attraction of this season's Westworld.
Large-scale, bloody torture, suspense and brain-burning. These are the three most appealing features of Westworld.
Whether it is the picture of humans cruelly abusing the machine to the receptionist in the paradise, or the resoluteness of the machine receptionist to kill human beings, it shows the evil nature of human nature: because there is a massacre, there is a counter-killing, and everything is the self-inflicted of human beings.
While reflecting on human nature, there is also an extreme brain-burning reversal in "Westworld": people who think they are human beings are robots, and after awakening, they think they have self-awareness, but they do not think that even the phenomenon of "awakening" is under the control of human beings...
As the line in the episode says: "These cruel pleasures will end in brutality." "In Westworld, there are too many secrets to be discovered, and these secrets make the audience look forward to it and make the story more exciting."