I don't need your past, I just need your future

Cheyanne 2022-03-21 09:03:31

"Contains a lot of personal assumptions and immature conjectures, don't scold if you don't like it"


Recently, I have been very mourning for various reasons, and the spring has not improved. So I was very sad and finished watching the "Futurology Conference" in a quarantine hotel in a foreign land. The first half was painful, and the second half was drug addiction.

In a sense, the film discusses the issues and the professional counterparts, so from the beginning to the end, I felt that every cell in my body was eager to write this film review, but when the subtitles were scrolled, I couldn’t say anything. .

In the progress of science and technology, I know that one day movies will "evolve" or "change". The products of this technology have been innovating since the beginning, black and white silent, to naked-eye 3D, and now 4D, IMAX, Dolby and other forms. . The so-called better experience that people are pursuing is actually a more novel feeling: when ordinary flat films cannot satisfy the audience, new ways must appear to entertain everyone; the same is true for the innovation of film type, structure and content, This is also why anti-genre films are particularly popular in recent years, because we are used to seeing genre films for a long time.

What if one day, the film developed into a product that even a series of main creators such as actors, directors, and photographers do not need? Celebrities have fallen victim to over-entertainment, and the public has fallen into a vicious circle of over-consumption, becoming "people who want to be", eating TA, drinking TA, spending at will, and spurning at will. In the film, there is an interview about "Robin" and the movie "3R", which talks about the exploitation of robots by people, and it is said that this sci-fi film is actually a documentary. Isn't the development of the world today the same? Entertainment has become the mainstream, all information and all fields have been entertained, and one by one, people have begun to extract the entertainment value of others, or become the object of extraction. This madness and dissatisfaction may one day lead us to the future of movies.

The advent of film and television winter is very real in this situation. The practice of a director's work jumping to the cinema line and going directly online seems to be an improvement, a challenge to the window period, but also a challenge to the basic respect and compensation established by the traditional system and the lack of creators. Then if one day, it is not just editing, art, publicity, field affairs, etc. that the audience does not know enough to be exploited, but first-class big stars, people will still be so fanatical about idols, or Speak up for your idol? Will this be a good thing, or just another flaw that technology has mapped out?

Or, outside the film industry, all technological progress cannot be predicted whether it is good or bad. There are endless technologies that can make people live more and more lazy. Although I personally have a big opposition to AI (personal idea, don’t like it if you don’t like it), but I have to admit that its current role is great. But when people's cognition of physical chemistry exceeds our own, just like the knowledge innovation of people 50 or 100 years ago, what will this road look like? We will lose our current understanding of the world. Cognitive? Will you forget the existence of the sun and moon galaxies, transcend the dimension of time and sound, and accept or abandon yourself? None of us are sure. There is only one thing that is certain, that is, like the heroine in the film, those who are eliminated will be forever forgotten, abandoned, and will no longer be remembered because they have no use value.


In the end, fortunately Paramount can't stand up now (no

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Extended Reading
  • Adolf 2022-02-04 08:09:26

    The actors cut into the film, which was originally a grand fantasy party, and discussed the virtual and the real in the light and noise. It was a fairly self-consistent adaptation. When the reality is desolate and hopeless and there is no one to rely on, but the beauty and beauty of the dream have all the answers, how would you choose? Walking into the cinema again and again is my answer. Settling on the background of love inevitably narrows the pattern a bit, but that moving blow may be the last real, the only worth in the world to pierce through all illusions. 7/10

  • Bennie 2022-04-22 07:01:56

    The dark world like the sons of mankind, the red chair in 2001, the director's ambition is obviously huge, but he can't hold it back, and the words are unclear.

The Congress quotes

  • Robin Wright: Does that make sense? Or is this just in my mind?

    Robot: Ultimately, everything make sense. And everything is in our mind.

  • Jeff: We at Miramount, want to... want to scan you. All of you - your body, your face, your emotion, your laughter, your tears, your climaxing, your happiness, your depressions, your... fears, longings. We want to sample you, we want to preserve you, we want... all this, this... this thing, this thing called..."Robin Wright".

    Robin Wright: What will you do with this... thing ? That you call Robin Wright?

    Jeff: We'll do all the things that your Robin Wright wouldn't do.