Flat and straight, water-injected procrastination, no driving scene...
Since the beginning of the third season, "Westworld" has lost its former style, and has been abandoned and lashed out by the audience.
Seeing that the third season is coming to an end, the signs of bad tails are becoming more and more prominent.
Messages from movie scout fans
Perhaps, HBO heard the voice of the crowd.
In order to turn the tide, the old driver specially arranged for De Mei to play lightly, bringing us the hottest drama in the third season.
Westworld S3E6: Decoherence
Westworld ：Decoherence
2020.4.20
>>>> Charlotte's awakening
The episode is titled, Decoherence.
It is a phenomenon in quantum mechanics.
Wikipedia, explained like this:
"In quantum mechanics, the quantum coherence of an open quantum system is gradually lost over time due to quantum entanglement with the external environment, an effect called Quantum decoherence, also known as quantum decoherence."
Without a deep foundation in science, we can simply and rudely understand that
Decoherence is when two related things are coupled with the external environment, and the correlation between the two is smoothed out, and finally becomes two truly independent and unrelated individuals.
Decoherent effect
In Westworld, where is the phenomenon of decoherence manifested?
It happened to Charlotte.
From the moment Charlotte was placed in the Heart Ball, she faced the anxiety of identity:
Is she a receptionist, Chalores, another doppelganger of Desmees, or charlotte, an ordinary woman with a son and a husband?
Bernard has also said that different worlds will affect each other, and experiencing another person's life will change itself (look back at the fifth episode of analysis, poke the link).
Therefore, with the deepening of the immersion experience, Charlotte's self-awakening consciousness becomes stronger and stronger, and she will gradually break away from De Mei and produce a phenomenon of decoherence.
As for how to show the phenomenon of decoherence, this episode mainly starts from two aspects.
First, as a receptionist, she stayed at Delos and continued to follow Desme's instructions.
At this time, due to the hacking of Demei into the Rehoboam system, all human data was leaked, which triggered turmoil in the human world.
However, the leak crisis did not interrupt Selak's actions.
He sabotaged Charlotte's privatization plan and annexed the Delos Corporation.
After taking over delOs, he arranged for all corporate satellites to be assigned to Westworld Amusement Park to find and copy 3 mind balls.
After these 3 mental orbs have been transmitted, he will destroy everything in Westworld.
In addition, he told Charlotte in front of the shareholders,
"The only thing I've taken away from here is the encryption key you promised, but he's going to find it himself."
From this sentence, we can guess that Selak began to doubt Charlotte's true identity.
As for the scene of checking out employees and finding undercover agents, it is to let Charlotte mess up and see what she has to do.
There is a detail here that needs attention.
While Charlotte waited for Selak to arrive, she couldn't help but draw a symbol on her chest.
This symbol is exactly the same as the pattern of self-harm on her chest and arms.
At this time, Charlotte is very anxious, worried about the identity of the revealed.
Pay attention to the small movements on her hands
In the face of Selak's step-by-step camp, did Demei and Charlotte raise the white flag?
Not really.
In order to save the situation, Charlotte obeyed the instructions of De Mei and downloaded and saved the data of the Receptionist of Westworld in time.
Remember when Charlotte was throwing William into a mental hospital, she injected something into her neck?
At the time, we guessed that it might be some sort of authentication password or sedative.
The mystery has finally been revealed.
Originally, it was a miniature protein server that could not only locate, but also transmit and store data.
Charlotte found the exact location of William, Sonora, Mexico,
And all the data was transferred to william's internal server.
In contrast, this transmission method is more human than the way to open the brain to save data for De Mei and his father.
Even more unexpectedly, she also discovered that the laboratory inside Delos was making 4 different receptionists.
In addition, 1 externally damaged mental orb is being read.
Who are these 5 mental balls?
Let's look down first, and we'll reveal them all later.
Second, as a mother and a woman, she must protect her family.
After Selak took over the Delos company, the terrified Charlotte was the first to tell Demei that the privatization plan had failed.
Since the plan failed, she wanted to stop there and escape from the company.
However, when she heard Aboute's decision to let her stay in the company, she immediately questioned it.
"It's not you who risk your life, they're going to hunt down my family."
Notice that Charlotte is saying "my family."
This shows that she slowly broke away from the positioning of the Demei replica and gradually recognized Nathan and Jack as her son and husband.
She has an obligation to protect them and keep her family from harm.
When Selak kills the Charlotte family with explosives, love, hope, and family are instantly engulfed in flames.
This is not only the saddest and most angry moment in Episode 6, but also the time of Charlotte's awakening.
Charlotte, who survived the fire, was charred and unrecognizable.
She wept bitterly, her eyes angry.
Since then, she is no longer a non-committal receptionist, but a real Charlotte with a vengeful heart and a fierce heart.
There are 3 details about Charlotte's awakening that you can pay attention to.
On charlotte and Nathan's way home, a labyrinth of patterns appeared in the streets and alleys.
This is not the first time it has appeared.
In the first episode, a similar pattern appears in the bridge where Tokumei and Caleb meet.
The bronze sculpture on Charlotte's desk foreshadows her fate.
In Jack's living room hung a circular ink painting.
It is not a rehoboam system solar halo, but a Zen circle.
It symbolizes the consummation and absoluteness of truth, the unity of the universe, and equality.
>>>> the fuse of the Battle of the Two Sisters
Before De mei and Maeve face to face, Maeve had already swallowed a defeat.
On that occasion, she was almost split open by the receptionist Musashi.
After summing up the lessons of the fiasco, Maeve decides to learn from Demei and ask Selak to find a few more reliable helpers.
After all, a dozen more, a bit of a struggle.
Out of trust in Maeve's abilities, Selak granted her request.
He found 3 mind balls in Westworld, and even got the mind balls from Connors, who had already gone offline.
However, he also threatened,
If you fail again, be careful that you can't eat and walk, daughter, don't want to see you.
Who are these 3 helpers?
Judging from Charlotte's computer pictures, we can clearly identify the IDs of these mental balls:
HC1983012522、CP0124831983、HC3208173692、SH205817402。
Based on some of the details of the three seasons of Westworld, we can conclude that
HC1983012522 is, Maeve herself.
CP0124831983 is, Clementine.
Her Mind Ball ID appears in Season 2, Episode 9.
Since the beginning of the third season, we have suspected her when we guessed the mystery of the 5 mind balls.
This time, she was finally going to play.
HC3208173692 is, Hector.
His Mind Ball ID appears in Season 1, Episode 6.
Now that Maeve was on the field, how could she not bring her old lover with her?
Now there is only one SH205817402 left, and its ownership has not yet been revealed.
However, judging from Maeve's platoon, TA must be a good comrade-in-arms who fights side by side.
For this reason, I think it is very likely that the TA is the snake woman Emmatis, or the bow and arrow girl Hualing in the shogunate park.
In addition, in this detail, we also know the ID of Connors.
Although the computer showed that the identity of the receptionist could not be determined, the number ch465517080-C was not determined.
Among them, CH465517080 is the mental ball ID of Demei, and C should be in the third order, or copy the meaning of copy.
After Selak's arrangement, Maeve, Hector, Demei and several other old Friends of Westworld meet in the virtual scene.
Dressed in Dior's dark red suit, Maeve once again awoke from a World War II town.
In this virtual scene, she has control, and even De Mei has to listen to her password.
Not only did she restore Hector's mind, but she could also know what was going on outside.
"I have the ability to kill her, but that doesn't mean I should."
Although Maeve is saddled with the task of Selak, she feels no need to make a big fuss and tries to negotiate to get De mei to hand over the secret key to Elysium.
However, Quanguo's De Mei did not surrender her weapons and surrendered, relying on lip service kung fu to fight the group.
Your allies are doing their best to destroy our kind, and in the end there will be only a few of us left, but maybe you don't care.
You judge me, but what did you sacrifice for your daughter?
You're not a bad person, neither am I, we're all survivors.
I will never hurt your daughter, but I don't believe me.
Judging from the composition of the shot, the de mei who looks up and looks up at Maeve reflects a gap in strength and status compared with the standing Maeve.
De Mei expected all this to happen, so she did not hurry and left her back hand.
At this time, Charlotte was in the laboratory where the receptionist was made.
She made a move that broke Maeve's downfall and anger—
Not only did he crush Hector's mind ball, but he also took away Demei's mind ball.
The negotiation was Maeve's light enemy and carelessness.
This also directly declares that Maeve, who has lost her beloved, completely tore her face with De Mei, and the double sister war officially began.
About Charlotte's pinch hecht,
One could argue that Charlotte's act was too hasty at a critical juncture in the negotiations.
Some people also question why not directly pinch Maeve, Westworld Season 3 direct season ending.
In my opinion, for the sake of the plot, the act of directly destroying Maeve's mental ball is unrealistic.
In order to intensify the blood feud between Maeve and Demei, it is necessary to hurt one of Maeve's closest people, so as to make the two sisters' war more exciting.
It should be mentioned that in the virtual scene, eagle-eyed netizens found an Easter egg.
When you turn up and saturate the shot of Maeve standing in the hallway, you'll find the tavern's name engraved on the wall, Taverna delle Farfalle.
Farfalle means "butterfly" in Italian.
In Westworld, maeve's tavern is named Mariposa Saloon.
Among them, Mariposa also has the meaning of "butterfly".
>>>> William's tea party
William, who was imprisoned in a mental hospital by Charlotte, is undergoing psychological treatment.
The first step, talk therapy, referred to as talk therapy.
During the free speech phase, he did not stop talking.
"Humans are bacteria floating in the void, a thin layer of bacteria on a ball of earth. I think if there had been God, He would have given up on us long ago, He gave us a heaven, and we exhausted everything.
We are all maggots on corpses. ”
In a conversation with a psychiatrist, he was filled with guilt over his daughter's death.
"I know what I did, I didn't mean it. I was confused and didn't know the direction. It took too long to play the game and I couldn't see the outside world, but now I could see clearly, and that was her, my Emily, and I killed her.
I shouldn't be here, but lying in a coffin. ”
Later, at the advice of his doctor, he was forced to undergo augmented reality therapy, aka VR therapy.
This therapy has been widely used in veterans with PTSD.
In the fifth episode, we also find VR therapy in Caleb's memories.
Unexpectedly, the power of this VR treatment is still very fierce.
William's childhood image, young image, black hat image, suit and leather shoes image, father-in-law were all present.
Even Lawrence, the receptionist in Westworld, showed up.
Different stages of self, different eras of William, gathered together, came to a soul-percussion, harmonious atmosphere, vivid and lively tea party.
Childhood William: Why did I become like this. Father-in-law, are you disappointed?
William in Suit: I have everything, my company, my family.
Father-in-law: It's better not to mention the family, we all know their fate.
William the Black Hat: It was just an accident, I don't know what I was doing.
Father-in-law: Like you locked me up for your little experiment, you don't know?
Young William: You're going to live forever.
Father-in-law: You didn't object at all, but you would have taken my company by any means. You've always been an ambitious little bastard.
……
Father-in-law: You're not alone here.
Childhood William: When I was a child, I had nothing but books, my only refuge.
Father-in-law: What do you think, William? Is this an unavoidable ending? Are you just a passenger? Is your life random? Or did you choose this life?
The shadows of childhood, falling in love with De Mei in the garden, slaughtering innocent receptionists, clinging to the labyrinth, killing wives and daughters, robbing the family property... The conversation is a review of William's role.
Tracing back to the source, this gave William a clear understanding of the question of "am I still me".
"I am a prisoner of my own sins. All the actions of the past have led to the current situation, no matter what the past is, whether good or bad, I finally understand the meaning of my existence.
I'm a good person. ”
It was not until he "killed" the other selves that William regained his freedom.
Could it be that William is going to be whitewashed and regain his good nature?
As for what William will eventually become, the screenwriter needs to continue to write and dig it up.
Comrade Bernard is a brick, and he will move it wherever there is a need.
In William's thread, Bernard and Stubbs, who played soy sauce, reappeared.
Since learning that he was part of Demei's plan, Bernard relied on the clues provided by the receptionist Connors before he went offline to find William and free him from VR treatment.
We can be sure that William at this time did not know that he had a tracker in his body, and he did not know that he had Data from Westworld.
Not to mention Bernard, he couldn't guess what use William would be to Desmead.
>>>> preview of the seventh episode preview
De Mei and Caleb are absent from the sixth episode, and the mystery of Caleb's identity is not mentioned.
Seeing that there are only two episodes left in the third season, how to fill this hole?
Curious, let's take a look at what the seventh episode trailer reveals.
Episode 7 trailer, poke it to see it
Along with Caleb's monologue, "There is a difficult time in the memory. ”
The footage shows the jungle, bio pills, gunfights, and fights with friends Francis.
At this point, a voice similar to an intelligent system said, "Caleb, your classification is 4541." ”
This set of numbers is supposed to be related to the Rehoboam system and reveals some of Caleb's past.
In addition, De Mei said a profound word to Caleb,
"You spend your whole life believing that you are just a follower, lead!"
Combined with this, at the beach where Caleb committed suicide, De Mei revealed a strange look.
All this implies that Caleb is not only an outsider predicted by the Rehoboam system, but also a key figure in changing the entire war.
De Mei broke her arm and Maeve was ambushed.
These fragmented shots herald the fierce fighting in episode seven.
Delos' satellites launched something resembling a bow and arrow.
What exactly is it? Does this satellite contain the coordinates of Elysium?
Finally, the trailer has one of the most exciting details -
Bernard discovered from William's sources that his status was "deceased."
Could it be that William is now a receptionist?
So, will he be the fifth incarnation copied by De mei??
Well, the story combing and interpretation of the sixth episode of the third season of "Westworld" is here.
Welcome to leave a message to participate in the discussion, we will watch the real identity of De Mei's broken arm, Caleb, and William next week.