In 2026, Company W's first foundry AI will be put into the production line. In the decade that followed, different models of foundry AI wiped out 95% of the world's human occupations.
By 2046, after twenty years of iterative renewal and development, human beings no longer need to use their own labor to make a living, and the problems that plague humanity at this time have changed from material to time.
How to "kill" the excess time has become the most difficult problem for human beings.
As a result, there are devices that allow humans to enter the virtual world and experience all kinds of wonderful journeys.
The actor's name is Ruthless Killer, well, at first glance, it's a very old screen name.
He is a killer in the virtual world, and the person he wants to kill is named Billy.
The killer is a hesitant but determined person, although he has forgotten the reason for killing Billy, but he knows that people always need a reason to live in this world, and killing is both his job and the reason to live.
It's just that in such a virtual world, no one will really die, and he can only experience the helplessness of Sisyphus's curse in the infinite reincarnation of killing Billy and resurrecting Billy.
He doesn't care about living a miserable life, because he thinks that people are meant to be that.
He had become accustomed to repeating in reincarnation until the appearance of a woman changed everything.
Later, he learned that the woman's name was Sonorous Rose, which didn't seem to be much more novel than his name.
Rose is also a killer, and the person she wants to kill is a ruthless killer.
Oddly enough, every time before being killed by the rose, she asks herself to close her eyes.
Why do you want to close your eyes? Rose said, "If you close your eyes, you can see heaven." ”
People who die by accident always die with their eyes open, because they still have nostalgia for this world.
At one point, the killer literally closed his eyes before he died, and then he saw a forest and himself hanging like a doll.
The killer's illegal operation caused the system to lag (the word is edgy), and the killer finally woke up from the virtual world.
It turns out that this is a virtualizer called "Kill Time". The killer has been in this virtual machine for three years and four months.
Jumping out of the system with him was the girl named Sonorous Rose.
The killer tried to call his mother, but found that her mother was still in the virtual experience, and he tried a few more people, and the display was all virtual.
Until the system is restored, he can only wait patiently in his small room, and too much time becomes his biggest dilemma.
He remembered that Rose must have jumped out of the virtual machine like him, so he tried to call Rose by number.
They connected, in a world that was different from the virtual machine and different from the real space, they drank, danced, sometimes bored, sometimes speechless.
Rose said she had woken up many times, but each time she woke up not long before she returned to that virtual world.
The killer thinks that there is nothing wrong with this, that people live by sleeping, waking up, sleeping, waking up again, and so on.
He advised Rose not to be so pessimistic, but Rose said, "If you don't stay pessimistic, you can't live." ”
Rose tells the killer a story about Universe 25.
A long time ago, there was an experiment in which scientists put four mice in a huge container that could hold 5,000 mice.
Then keep them under long-term observation. Scientists have found that when the rats are given unlimited food and water, they begin to reproduce rapidly.
When the number of rats reaches 2,000, they stop breeding and eventually all become extinct.
The same is true of man, Rose argues, and in the so-called carefree paradise, where humanity faces endless time, may eventually become extinct.
The killer believes that humans are different because we will seek meaning, such as love.
"The pursuit of meaning is meaningless in itself. Rose said calmly.
After a rather ceremonial kiss goodbye, the rose disappears before the killer's eyes.
The killer tried to contact Rose several times after that, but the other party did not respond.
He mustered up the courage to step out of his room, and saw that he was in a large and boundless room, with small rooms, each of which was a person being hanged, and the difference was that the picture in front of him was either a swaying bamboo forest, a rushing sea, or a fragrant flower.
He kept shouting "Hello", but he never got an answer, he ran into the boundless distance, and the film ended at this time.
This short film directed by Wen Shipei, a promising director, explores the philosophical aspects of what is the meaning of existence and life if human beings live in a paradise-like world, and how to pursue this sense of meaning.
The leading actors Zhang Yu and Li Manxuan contributed a fancy kiss scene that lasted for 2 minutes and 40 seconds at the end of the film.
This scene is not just for gimmicks, but the theme is closely related.
What I understand is that in Rose's view, no amount of love, family affection, or friendship can completely solve the problem of the meaning of life.
Because she believes that being pessimistic is the basis for survival.
Her departure is obviously not a return to the virtual world, because that would show that the contact is in the virtual world, and she should have returned to normal real life, or continue to enlighten others to find the meaning of life.
Whether it is love, family affection or friendship, these emotions that give meaning to life are more or less dependent on others other than themselves, that is to say, in the process of pursuing the meaning of their own life, they also need to rely on the giving and dedication of others, which is unreliable and unstable in the long run.
There is no emotion that can shine with life, and I always think that the meaning of my life needs to be controlled and found by myself after all.
The so-called "pursuit of meaning itself is meaningless" is what the sages said that "life has no meaning at all".
Regardless of whether life is meaningful or not, whether the pursuit of meaning itself is meaningful, the real feeling given to me by this short film is that I can't pursue what I can't help but pursue all the time seems to be meaningful, and this pessimistic pursuit process that seems to never have a satisfactory result is the meaning of life.
Moreover, the meaning of this pursuit and the process of pursuit do not seem to require the participation and response of others, and what cannot be obtained is always in turmoil, and it is precisely because of this turmoil that we have the courage and motivation to pursue.
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