"On May 17, 2023 local time, it was Hirokazu Kore-eda who premiered "Monster" at the Cannes Film Festival, the first of the 21 films in the main competition. The theme of "Monster" is still concern for the human condition. After the film screening, the audience stood up and applauded, which made the fans' expectations even higher.
Recently, "the first person to lose his job after AI came out is Sun Yanzi" has become a hot topic. Sun Yanzi's own response makes people believe that AI Sun Yanzi cannot replace Sun Yanzi. She ridiculed herself as an "unpopular singer" and wrote that she was hotly debated about her AI Sun Yanzi: "At the moment, I feel like a person who is eating popcorn and sitting in the best position in the cinema." ”
"Those who don't think, that's monsters"
"Nikkei Shimbun" recently published an article commenting that the director is Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film "Monster". It is Hirokazu Kore-eda as the director, Yuji Sakamoto as the screenwriter, and the soundtrack is from Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died not long ago, which makes the audience look forward to this movie.
"Monster" unfolds with the bizarre experience of two teenagers. Giant baby parents, calm teachers, children who can't figure out their identities, and people who look like monsters from the perspective of others, once they change their perspective, they will become serious. Where do the monster attributes on them come from? Kore-eda explains, "Because they don't want to see the whole. Of course, human beings cannot see the world objectively, but can only start from their own perspective. This has been amplified during the pandemic. It's the same with social media, where the trees don't see the forest, people attack each other, are hostile to each other, live in an information cocoon, and only accept what they want to believe, and this kind of thing is really happening around us. ”
"Draw 〇 or draw ×, you have to choose one of these two. But all I always wanted to draw was △. If I have to choose between the two, then I will draw a line. The people in "Monsters" face such a situation. ”
is a still from Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film "Monster".
"Move" the library to social platforms
According to US media reports, in the United States, libraries are attracting the attention of young people. It's no longer the quiet but somewhat boring place people think, "we want people to know that we're a library that has evolved into the 21st century," said Paul Wellington, a staff member at the Hamilton County Library in Cincinnati.
On TikTok, library staff from all over the world gathered under the topic "LibraryTok". They upload videos showing the library's reading materials and interesting facts. So far, LibraryTok-related topics have been viewed nearly 80 billion times.
Take the library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which opened on TikTok in June 2022 and currently has about 100,000 followers and 3.5 million likes. Videos uploaded by staff included "How the administrator observes readers' preferences," "I rushed to the library before the holidays closed," and "If I were a recycled book," which attracted more than 500,000 likes. In addition, the videos they uploaded of librarians dancing and acting out sitcoms also brought them closer to younger audiences.
Screenshots of various videos under the topic "LibraryTok". /Tiktok
Sun Yanzi herself responded to "AI Sun Yanzi"
Recently, a large number of well-known songs covered by "AI Sun Yanzi" have appeared on the Internet. Using AI technology, netizens can hear Sun Yanzi's singing voice appearing in songs such as Hikaru Utada's "First Love", Eason Chan's "Under Mount Fuji", and even "Kill That Shijiazhuang Man" by Universal Youth Hostel. According to incomplete statistics, "AI Sun Yanzi" currently has more than 1,000 cover works, far exceeding the total number of works of Sun Yanzi in the 23 years since his debut.
On May 22, Sun Yanzi posted an article on social media to respond positively to the phenomenon of "AI Sun Yanzi".
"My fans have officially changed doors and accepted that I am an unpopular singer, and my AI character has become the current top stream. What I'm trying to say is, what else do you have to argue with someone who releases a new album every few minutes. ”
In the article, Sun Yanzi indirectly hinted that artificial intelligence technology has the potential to have a huge impact on human work, and said that it is just around the corner that humans cannot surpass it. In the face of all this, she said: "Everything is possible, everything does not matter, I think it is enough to be pure in mind and be yourself." ”
Singer Sun Yanzi's response to the phenomenon of "AI Sun Yanzi". /Social platform screenshots
"Wool Wars", a sample of social experiments
The first season of the TV series of the same name, "Silo," based on Hugh Howie's science fiction series "Wool", began airing on Apple TV+ in early May, and is currently more than halfway on the air, with a Douban score of 8.
"Wool Wars", which won the Kindle 2012 Fiction Championship, is based on the basic premise: In the future, the earth is deserted, and the last humans live in a silo on the 144th floor underground, and the only contact with the outside world is the monitor lens outside the silo. Here, "going out" is the biggest taboo, and once you say "I want to go out" in public, you have to walk out of the floodgates that leads to the "outside", take a woolen cloth to wipe the lens, let the people inside the silo see the "outside", and then fall to the ground in a poisonous miasma.
The "silo" is a utopian society: all residents perform their own duties, live on different floors according to different identities, and are subject to the Convention; In order to avoid excessive population growth, fertility quotas are required. However, there are always people who want to know why people live underground, what is "outside", and the search for secrets and "truth" drives the story.
Some film critics pointed out that at a time when the audience has seen too many sci-fi films, is familiar with various settings and routines, and even produces "doomsday utopian syndrome", the significance of "Wool War" is that it is a sample of social experiments, and its success or failure will bring inspiration.
A still from the first season of "Wool War"
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Author丨Tan Shanshan, Wang Yaqi, Zhang Wenxi
Special editor丨Tan Shan Shan
Operations Editor丨Wang Yaqi
Proofreading丨Xiangyang