Are robots far away from us? Maybe he can spend his life with your children.
Real Humans is directed by Lewis Arnold, with Camma Chan, Colin Morgan, and others
Starring in eight episodes of science fiction miniseries, Douban scored as high as 8.5 points.
The play tells the story of the interaction between robots and humans in a future society when robots become an integral part of life.
The plot begins with Hawkins' family, and when Hawkins buys a robot, the uncanny valley theory of humans and robots begins to unfold in front of the audience layer by layer.
Family ethics and modern technology
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At the beginning of the plot, the director creates a contradiction for the audience.
This contradiction is not deliberately rendered, there is no strong conflict, the director uses a flat and direct way to show it, but can firmly grasp the audience's heart, the reason is fundamentally the particularity of this contradiction.
On this day, Hawkins made a bold decision to buy a female robot. The reason he gave was that his wife, Laura, was on a lot of business trips and that the family needed a nanny to handle the housework.
The starting point seemed to be good, but his family was confused because of it.
Laura knows that her husband chose a female robot because of his selfishness. The eldest daughter has excellent academic performance but has always rejected the existence of robots. The youngest son is in the ignorance of adolescence, and he is eager to move in the face of a beautiful female robot.
Beautiful robots
Conflicts within the family gradually increase with the robots and the time they live.
The appearance of robots has gradually weakened Laura's family role function, and she has been in this sense of absence for a long time, and gradually becomes sensitive and suspicious. Hawkins also gave up on robots when Laura was on another business trip to satisfy his own selfish desires.
No one says whether Laura's considerations are superfluous, and no one can say whether Hawkins' actions are derailment.
This is a very peculiar contradiction, it does not seem to be a big deal, but it seems to be a thorn, in the throat of the person concerned, up and down is difficult.
Ethics is conventional, it has a certain subjectivity. Technology is objective, it is part of the material of society.
But when family ethics and modern technology collide, we don't even have a clear standard of judgment to measure so-called right and wrong.
The criteria for social judgment tend to blur, and a third gray area appears between black and white, and this third area attracts people's fear.
Uncanny Valley Theory
The robot is activated
Masahiro Mori is a roboticist who, over the years of research, has come up with a hypothesis.
"When robots are similar to humans to a certain extent, human reactions to them suddenly become extremely negative and disgusting."
This is the "Uncanny Valley Theory".
In the play, robots and humans are almost exactly the same in appearance, they are engaged in human work, and even some robots have human consciousness, they hide in the crowd, living human life.
For example, the robot that Hawkins bought back, Anita.
Robot Anita
The conscious Anita is almost no different from a human being, and her instinctive existence according to human cognition naturally poses a great threat to the Hawkins family.
The eldest daughter has always believed that one day robots will rule over humanity, so she is extremely disgusted with robots.
In the face of the technological convenience brought by robots, her anxiety is not a single behavior, she echoes on the Internet, and the calls to resist robots are repeated.
Laura also realizes that Although Anita is a robot, she has obviously become an extremely important part of the family, and even gradually replaces her family status.
This seemingly absurd phenomenon is quietly existing in every woman, or husband, who owns a robotic family.
Laura
This fear of Laura and her eldest daughter is a manifestation of the "uncanny valley" theory.
When robots and humans are so similar, we walk down the street, unable to discern whether it's a human or a machine coming at us, or whether a work colleague is a real person.
Even our own lover, we can't be sure.
Ordinary people who fall in love with robots
This mutual suspicion and mutual avoidance will undoubtedly alienate the relationship between people and people, leaving only strangeness, coldness, suspicion and estrangement.
One cannot imagine what it would be like for a society filled with these emotions, facing the unknown, the instinctive fear and disgust of human beings.
The Uncanny Valley Theory suddenly became a reality.
The questioning of human nature
The director arranged the "Uncanny Valley Theory" into the plot and expressed it through different aspects of life of different characters, which is the biggest highlight of the play and the deeper connotation of the play.
It's not so much that people are afraid of robots as they are about themselves.
When robots and humans tend to be the same, what people are really afraid of is not the cold machines that make up the synthesis, but the humanity of the robot.
Robots that are almost indistinguishable from humans
In this play, the director creates a future world full of technology through bold imagination and traceable theories.
In the modern society with the rapid development of science and technology, we seem to have been inseparable from the convenience brought by science and technology, on this basis, we are also pursuing the development of intelligent technology to a great extent, but are we really ready to face intelligent technology?
Are we really ready to face human questioning?
"Real Humans" has a clear main line, a thrilling plot, and in one plot evolution after another, hidden is one social problem after another, which is very worth seeing on the whole.