Technology has made people more and more like "machines", while artificial life forms and artificial intelligence have become more and more realistic and perfect, and the boundaries between the two have become blurred and dangerous. Cameron, who is terminally ill, is faced with such a choice, whether to let people create life forms to replace themselves? - "Swan Elegy"
"The Boundaries of Technology", "End-of-Life Care", "Disappointment and Death", "Do You Want to Say Goodbye, My Lover", if I had written the label for this movie, I would probably have written it this way. Such a word collocation is very Internet sense, far less poetic and beautiful than the four words "Swan Elegy", and there is a touch of despair in Mahershala Ali's interpretation.
When the boundaries of immortality are broken by the science and technology we create, is this state of humanity 2.0 really what we humans need? The memory fragments of "warmth and love" flashed in the movie are often mixed with such thinking, and the beautiful picture will definitely drag on a life-or-death decision.
The future technology in the movie seems to be able to connect everything, and this magical special effect function is like the black jade intermittent paste in Jin Yong's "Dragon Slaying in the Heavens", even if it is a broken bone like Yu Daiyan that has been powdered by King Kong's finger, it can be seamlessly connected. And this process, like a boat, makes people burst out of unlimited potential in a desperate situation, and completes the death and rebirth.
But is this 1.0 first death, 2.0 life really what we ordinary people expect? In the movie "Swan Elegy", such a dilemma is thrown to the audience with a direct picture, so that 1.0 and 2.0 are dialogued in a space, as if to say: "You see it yourself, choose it yourself." ”
After watching the movie, I couldn't make a choice, but I was endlessly circulating the question "What is the future technology?" ”
While sighing the magic of technology, I passively experience the tearing feeling of technology on people, link east, link west, is the Internet world that can connect the world really what we need? If technology is infinitely immortal, and there are so many cycles of eternal life, what unfulfilled wish do we have to use such a stolen opportunity to fulfill?
Suppose, suppose that one day in the future our real world can be like the game world, infinite loop optimization, are we willing to do it? Will the slavery proposed in Lu Xun's time evolve into machine slavery? Is this the book "The Game of Finite and Infinite" written by James Cass?
Obviously, "Swan Elegy" made me think clearly that in addition to the enhancement of technology, technology will also bring us new diseases, such as technology anxiety.
Of course, if you follow the logic of this movie, I can also see the profit zone of the psychological counseling industry, and if I am lucky, there may be one or two contemporary psychology masters, after all, the Internet, technology, and algorithms are the world that Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Carl Jung do not understand.