I fear that one day technology will surpass our human interactions, and then the world will have an era full of fools – Einstein
<h1>preface:</h1>
On January 14, 2020, American scientists announced the success of the world's first living robot made of animal cells, shocking the scientific community, and this news reminded me of a movie that also fabled a similar world, it is "2077 Japan Lockdown".
"2077 Japan Lockdown" is a CG animated film released in 2007, which was originally mixed, and many Douban authors defined it as a lackluster and mediocre work.
Watching this movie more than ten years ago, Quan was a pastime, and now that people are middle-aged, they have enlightened about life and remembered many details in the film.
Watching again today, it is not the message conveyed by the film that forces me to examine reality, but the reality that makes me take the initiative to regurgitate the buried value of this film, and suddenly understand that it is a wonderful fable that dissects our times.
The storyline is not complicated, Japan has mastered the biochemical machinery technology that can make human beings bid farewell to the shackles of the flesh, this dangerous technology has been opposed by the entire international community, and Japan is angry, severing all contact with the outside world, and using high-tech electromagnetic barriers to cover the country and open the state of locking the country.
After 10 years of locking the country, the outside world can not see any wind and grass inside the barrier, and it is conceivable that the invisible Japan has become the heart disease of all countries.
In 2077, the United States sent a special operations squad, WORD, to secretly infiltrate Japan by sea to find out.
The locked Japan represents mankind's obsession with technology, while the curious United States symbolizes the human face of technology's gains and losses. Outside of movies, we ordinary people are both beneficiaries of technology and have been confused and helpless in the face of technology, how familiar are these feelings?
When SWORD crosses the barrier fireline, only the female team member Vic Hill passes alive under the cover of captain Ryan, and the story can only revolve around Vick Hill, who is saved by a mysterious Japanese woman named Maria.
Vichill and Maria are also the two protagonists of the film.
According to normal logic, Vichill's japan should shine on the horizon like Wakanda in Black Panther, but she saw a desolate scene: inside the high walls, there were low shantytowns of the Edo period, pedestrians on the streets, looking sluggish; and outside the walls, huge serpents made of metal fragments searched the wilderness for all the metal remains that could be swallowed.
The name of this shantytown is Tokyo!
Inside the wall is a regressive history, outside the wall is a dangerous unknown, and the worldview constructed by "Attack on Titan" may have borrowed from this film.
Revisiting the film, I realized that all dystopian mirrors are a scar of reality.
<h1>The value of technology will be reversed in greed</h1>
1. The film's mirror expression of the technical paradox
In 2007, when the film was released, the Internet was in the ascendant, still carrying the first rays of morning light, and not many people at that time expected that many new technologies such as mobile Internet, algorithm recommendation and artificial intelligence would refresh our understanding of life again in just a decade.
Like the initiator of the lockdown in the film, the japanese people have fantasies about immortality when the villain boss Ruzuki invents the biochemical mechanical technology.
Greed is the source of evil, and in pursuit of immortality, the Japanese underwent biochemical inoculation experiments, and the cells of the body gradually alienated, eventually becoming a metal body that only human shells were left. The knockouts of the experiment became metal corpses, which devoured each other under magnetic action and eventually became huge snakes that fed on metal.
The ultimate goal of scientific and technological progress is all for the progress of people, but people have desires, and once the desires are out of control, they will be counterproductive.
When Vick hill used high-tech signals to penetrate the electromagnetic barrier and establish contact with the U.S. command, the other side of the Pacific was finally able to scan Tokyo. They were surprised to find that there was only one life under infrared imaging, and that was Vic Hill.
Except for her, there are no humans in Tokyo, even though she is in the crowd to avoid being chased by Yamato heavy steel guards.
This aerial shot is shocking, how much like a metaphor for modern people who are in a hurry every day, but can't find themselves? Science and technology should have made life better, but we are isolated because of the convenience of life, and dare not stop every day like a machine, what is the meaning of life?
2. The realities of the technical cage
If technology deviates from its original intention, it can only make the annoyance seem more advanced.
For example, the introduction of computers in the workplace, initially to achieve paperless office, after connecting to the printer, paper consumption has soared; in order to make the office more efficient, a variety of new office software and operating systems have emerged, and one job has evolved into multiple jobs, and simple things have become more and more complex.
Our lives have also been squeezed silent by technology, since the popularity of social software, more and more people have lost the desire to communicate sincerely, and even fear of hearing the ringing of incoming calls, watching TV with their families has become a luxury.
In the long run, will humans become pets for technology? Has technology become the most advanced expression of human greed?
As early as 1818, the British writer Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein", which profoundly revealed the paradox of technology and human nature, and Frankenstein is a flaw in human nature that is infinitely magnified by technology.
From the fresh to the unconscious, the time for human beings to accept new things is shortening, and if one day, technology is out of control, technological colonization will be more rapid and thorough than cultural colonization, because technology users, in the unconscious, become monsters, and all changes can happen overnight.
We are still the same species, both good and evil, to say the difference, is that after we have the power of science and technology, it is easier to do than before, even if it is not necessarily a good thing.
Look at these walking dead on the streets of Tokyo in the film, with our shadows.
<h1>Technology allows us to own the world, but it can also make us lose it</h1>
1. The Hong snake is not a certain type of character, but an artistic symbol of technological regurgitation
The most impressive setting of "2077 Japan Lockdown" is the electromagnetic barrier of the locked country, and the second is the terrifying Hong Snake that specializes in devouring metal. The barrier represents the imprisonment and manipulation of people by technology, while the Hong Snake represents the unconscious alienation of the humanistic core and the re-division of classes.
This electromagnetic barrier is the boundary of Japan, and its operator is also the actual controller of biochemical machinery technology, the Yamato Heavy Steel Group. The world could not see the interior of the Boundary, allowing Yamato Heavy Steel to carry out biochemical experiments in the mainland.
As for Yamato Heavy Steel's boss, Ruzuki, the ultimate goal is to use biochemical machinery technology to transform the world and achieve true rule.
In ten years, all the japanese people lost their physical bodies, all the carbon-based cells were silicized and turned into another kind of creature, although they achieved a certain degree of immortality, but life in the natural sense, after the lockdown, ceased to exist.
Sadly, many people after the mutation, such as Maria, still retain human memories and feelings intact, and they can only watch themselves completely degenerate into the biochemical puppets of Yamato Heavy Steel in the gradual silication; or die early and become the food of the Hong Snake.
Before the human consciousness completely dissipated, they calmly enjoyed the last days of their lives inside the walls.
Hong Snake is the most successful character in the film and the most emblematic character. It has no life, but it can devour all life; it has no position, but it determines the end of the story. In a sense, the serpent has the perspective of God who judges mankind.
The Hong Snake is composed of human metal corpses that have died in mutation, it is like a death scavenger, with a soaring anger, whether it is devouring corpses or devouring transformed humans, as long as anyone has a little metallic breath left on them, it can be smelled by it and cause it to follow.
Therefore, before the population of the country is eaten by the hong snake, the remaining citizens of the human consciousness gather in Tokyo and build a tall wall to block the hong snake.
Mary and her resistance are some of them, even though they have lost their human bodies, and they will not give up on continuing to fight for human dignity.
2, THE ERA OF AI ANIMALS, EVERYONE HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING DEVOURED
Ten years after the release of the film, the era of cloud data and algorithms has arrived unexpectedly, and the artificial intelligence that only exists in science fiction has entered our lives.
Maria's pain, Lee Sedol, who retired not long ago, should be deeply aware of it. He had fought with the young AlphaGo continuously, and came to the conclusion that human chess players can never defeat artificial intelligence, so that game of luck is likely to become a human song.
Most people are unaware of the risks behind technology, and simply enjoy the convenience of food, clothing, shelter and transportation.
For example, the goods of the online shopping interface, like a sensitive nose, can always smell our preferences, saving us a lot of time to find, at the same time, our ability to go deep into the screening is also invisibly weakened; we in the news client, we can always receive the same kind of information surrounded, and in another person's client, may receive completely different information from us.
The personality recommendation of big data and cloud computing saves time for us, but also replaces the thinking of the brain, so that modern people are getting farther and farther away from the real information sharing and information freedom, everyone is surrounded by digital islands, life is quantified and cannibalized by algorithms, unconsciously, people become a unit in traffic.
If, one day, the algorithm has its own thinking and is out of human control, it will be suffocating.
More than ten years later, I really understood the meaning of the Hong Snake, which symbolizes the technological disaster that is beyond the reach of human beings, always sniffing people's happiness and sorrow, so as to search for and devour every sentient life, and finally make it a soulless shell; and the barrier of the locked country also means that modern people are isolated by science and technology in different personal lives, obviously in the bustling city, but extremely lonely.
Yamato Heavy Steel symbolizes the few people who control science and technology in reality, but are not controlled by technology, they stand at the top, use technology to control the joys and sorrows of most people, life and death, monopolize social resources, and finally make most people become more helpless AI animals than social animals. If the fable comes true, an era of AI animals composed of modern humans will come unexpectedly.
When humanity strives to open the unknown world, who knows if it is Aladdin's lamp or Pandora's box?
<h1>Guarding people's feelings and dignity is the original intention of all progress</h1>
1. The protagonist of the film is sacrificed, declaring the rebirth of human nature
Back in the film, at the moment when Vichill sets foot on the land of Japan, the island nation is only a ruin and desert, and within the walls of Tokyo, a group of living dead people watch their bodies alienate day by day, without any spare energy to save, they quietly watch the sunset every evening, waiting for death to come.
The resistance squad led by Maria has been fighting yamato Heavy Steel to the death.
However, Yamato Heavy Steel's lair was built on the sea, heavily guarded, insurmountable, even with the fastest means of transportation in hand, it was impossible to successfully sneak in in front of the gate where the old lair closed on time every day.
The appearance of Vic Hill gave Mary the last hope.
Maria needs Vic hill to wear a rocket-thrust WORD combat suit and lead her into the headquarters before the lair gate closes, while dragging a long metal wire to attract the Hong Snake and destroy Yamato Heavy Steel.
Before I thought Vic Hill was the first protagonist of the film, she was An American, representing the alien savior. Looking at the film again, I was completely conquered by Maria's righteousness to die, and she was the first protagonist of "2077 Japan Lockdown", because of her, the film had the resilience of life.
Even if she is a robot with only human emotions left.
In the end, she attacks the fortress with the help of Vic hill, uses her metal body to summon the Hong Snake, and dies with the villain BOSS.
At the end of the film, Japan is completely destroyed, there is no one left, but a butterfly flies on the ruins, this sad and poignant plot, very Japanese.
2, those back to the basics of the good, is the reason for us to live well
If tomorrow's world can't feel the body temperature, there are always some people who will work hard to turn back the clock, after all, only the old days are slow, the cars and horses are slow, and there is only enough to love one person in a lifetime.
The moment Mary died, I understood why Tokyo had become what it was like in the Edo period, and there were some tears in my eyes, and it turned out that the rest of the people were using nostalgia to maintain the dignity of dying.
The film is a stark allusion to reality.
Surrounded by AI data today, human nature can be calculated, feelings can be realized, and even various reality SHOW variety shows are infinitely tapping the dramatic side of human nature and using conflicts to win eyeballs.
When hope can be bought, feelings can be rented, loneliness can be exchanged, friendship can be performed, love can be consumed, everything is traffic, and finally loaded into a variety of APP.
The value of the existence of science and technology is to liberate people from heavy labor and focus on the pursuit of spiritual sublimation, rather than using external convenience to consume people's inner emotions, but in fact, science and technology make the world change too fast to stop, even the creators of science and technology are tired of coping and at a loss.
How many people are nostalgic, how many hearts do not want to be imprisoned by the "modern" life; how many songs praise freedom, how many repressed hearts desire true freedom.
This year's cross-Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Ziqi played a song "Dispel Sorrows" under the moonlight in the countryside, a cup of freedom, a cup of death. Her popularity around the globe illustrates a problem: too many people now want to break free from an invisible shackle, return to the time in memory, and live a life that seems familiar but is lost forever.
Otherwise, it does not explain the fact that we are becoming less and less happy.
That's what "2077 Japan Lockdown" tells me.
<h1>End:</h1>
Progress is not an event, but a need—Spencer
The emotional line in the film, which I did not explain in the previous article, wanted to put it at the end and let it turn into a glimmer.
The missing WORD Captain Ryan is not dead, he is captured by Yamato Shigeru, and Maria and Vichill finally rescue Ryan.
In fact, Maria is Ryan's ex-girlfriend, and when she saw that Ryan went to save Vic Hill at the first time, she had no thoughts in her heart.
Yamato's old lair was about to collapse under the devouring of the serpent, and in order not to burden Ryan, Maria hugged Ruyue and decided to die together. The villain boss is the last uncarried human in Japan, and his death means the annihilation of the country.
Before dying, Maria leaned over and whispered in Ruyue's ear: This time we will never be separated again, because she knows that Ruyue liked herself ten years ago, when he was still a genius scientist, and she was the search officer who investigated his scientific research results, as an old classmate.
When the Hong Snake stormed the headquarters of Yamato Heavy Steel on the sea, it was bound to pass through Tokyo. In order to destroy Yamato Shigetsu, the remaining humans alienated in Tokyo opened the city walls and allowed themselves to be swallowed up by the Hong Snake. The Hong Snake carried the hatred of humans and eventually devoured Yamato Heavy Steel.
A film with almost no emotions, all the emotions burst out at the end.
Seeing the ending, I know the grandeur of this movie: how much humanity in the cage of technology struggles, how depressed, how amazing it is the moment it breaks out of the cocoon.
So, this movie is not mediocre, but I didn't understand it at first.
When the 21st century enters the third decade, technology, traffic, AI, and finally return to the choice of human nature and return to the needs of the heart.
Perhaps in the new era, calmness is a kind of thinking, and warmth is a kind of strength. No matter how smart AI is, it can't replace human nature after all, and in the possible era of AI animals, how many Marys are still alive in the world is very important to us.