Recently there is a new drama called "Erotic Westworld". It sounds wild. The director of the show also directed the second, third and fifth seasons of the famous sci-fi satirical British drama "Black Mirror". Actress Jessica Brown Findlay also had a good performance in "Downton Abbey". Sci-fi, lust, drugs, mind control, hierarchy. What do you want to express? This new drama is "Brave New World", which was launched on July 15, and is adapted from Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World" of the same name. This novel and George Orwell's "1984", Zamyatin's "Us" and called "dystopian" trilogy! Because the drama version may not be very friendly to friends who have not read the book, the editor will intersperse the explanations in the book when sorting out the plot. In the future world, there is a city (resident) named "New London", a place full of technology. It's new because there are three things in New London: no privacy, no family, and no monogamy.
Only work and live according to the instructions of the superior, take drugs, and have sex. People here don't get married, let alone have children. Breeding is just a job, a machine-driven mass production of embryos; intercourse is a form of entertainment designed to make the people of New London forget about the present and, of course, thinking. All fertilized eggs are randomly grouped and tagged as they develop into embryos. It is divided into five grades, namely alpha alpha, beta beta, gamma gamma, delta delta, and epsilon ε of the Greek alphabet. Alpha is the highest level, and special care was given during the genetic breeding period. They are all intelligent, tall and beautiful, and they will be the rulers of New London in the future; Beta is one level lower than Alpha, and generally new. London's scientists, pilot doctors and other high-level occupations; Gamma is for Alpha and Beta, and the lowest-level Delta and Epsilon can only work at the lowest level, cleaning workers and the like. There is a difference between Alpha and Beta, the male lead Bernard is Alpha+, and the female lead Lenina is Beta+. Everyone wears something like a contact lens to communicate and share information with each other, and through this lens, everyone can know which class the other is. This is to determine whether you can communicate with this person, and it is more convenient for the superior to monitor people. In addition to physical surveillance, it is more mental brainwashing! For example, sonic brainwashing in fetuses, sleep therapy in childhood, make people give up resistance, give up thinking, and become tools in childhood; there is also electric shock therapy, if you don't want to touch flowers and books at a certain level, you will get an electric shock as soon as you get close. , in the long run, the formation of Pavlovian conditioning. The last thing is "slack", which is similar to a drug that can soothe one's emotions and add to the fun. The purpose is to control people's minds. Various means of controlling people's bodies and minds. Therefore, people in New London do not have privacy at all, nor do they have wombs, and the most intuitive thing is: an all-time sexual culture. Long-term stable sexual relationships are not allowed in New London. In the first episode, the heroine Lenina was reprimanded by her superior Bernard because she had sex with an Alpha 22 times in the past two months, and neither of them had sex with anyone else during the period! In New London, the body is shared, and the joy is shared. It is a disgrace that Bernard considers Lenina to have violated this collective principle. Because in New London, where there is a luxurious light show every night, the rotten life is just right. On the dance floor, many crazily twisting bodies are intertwined. This is the great harmony of life. However, Bernard has not had sex with anyone for over a month. Coupled with his recent confusion, he didn't understand why an Epsilon would choose to kill himself.
(CJack60-Epsilon, looks the same as the jumper)
His superiors sent him on vacation to the "savage land" opposite New London. It's called vacation, but it's exile. Bernard's strangeness also caught Lenina's attention, and they decided to go to the Wilderness together. The wild land is the ordinary world as we know it, where there are animals, weddings, violence, emotions, love and viviparity, and hope for freedom! They have been under the jurisdiction of the New Londoners for a long time, and New Londoners come to travel every day, and the savages need to put on a show for the New Londoners. Another male protagonist, John, is Savage, who falls in love with a local actress who joins the local rebellion against New London. They took the opportunity to kill a lot of New Londoners while they were performing "Marriage" for New Londoners.
Bernard and Lenina fled during the riot, but Bernard was shot in the shoulder. John rescued the two and hid them in his mother Linda's lover's house. Little did she know that John's mother, Linda, was also a New Londoner, but was forced to stay in the Savage Land. After the Badlands riots, John is brought back to New London by Bernard and Lenina. Next, what kind of life will John, who has the ability to think and doesn't need to take "slack", start out in New London?
Will he be educated? Can he adapt? How will Bernard and Lenina change after this?
The above is the plot introduction of the first 4 episodes of "Brave New World". In fact, it is quite innovative to view it as a science fiction film. Many people who have read the novel say that the "dystopian" awareness of the drama version is not strong. The word "Utopia" comes from Plato's "Utopia", which is simply a far-flung country in the imagination, a beautiful society in the consciousness, which is generally unrealizable. And Huxley's "Brave New World" is the most classic dystopian literature of the 20th century. The fictional world in the book, a world where people are controlled from birth to death, is such a brainless, accustomed to being Arrangements, high-intensity work, and ever-present sex. People lose their personal emotions and their individuality. Lost the right to think, but also lost creativity. Maybe the cultural rationality of the drama version is not so high, but if the scenes in the play also make you feel and start thinking, then the meaning of the play has already appeared. As Neil Postman said in "Entertainment to Die": The reality of "1984" may not come but we will eventually destroy what we love. This is most vividly expressed in Huxley's fantasy. The full text is complete. ps: I hope that through the supplement of the background knowledge by the editor, everyone has a better experience watching the drama.
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