Although this film is a restart, the related settings have been changed. In the original work, the dying villain transferred his soul to the doll through witchcraft, and the doll was evil at first.
But the doll in this work was only removed by an engineer from a toy company who did not work well. After all the safety settings of the doll's artificial intelligence chip (no swearing, no violence, etc.) were removed, the smart doll with its own learning function gradually became evil. the process of.
The film advances with the times, turning the original horror into science fiction horror. And in terms of connotation, it surpasses the original. The film assumes the damage caused by the combination of uncontrolled artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, which is very similar to the setting of the classic film "Terminator". At first, the ghost baby Chaji was just to accompany Andy to please the owner and avoid him from being hurt. But through its own learning function, the "one strand" artificial intelligence ghost baby got the logic to please Andy by hurting people who make Andy unpleasant. And because of the existence of the Internet of Things technology, this kind of damage can be magnified several times. Does it resemble the logic of "Skynet" in "Terminator" that human beings must be eliminated to eliminate the threat of war?
The thing that makes me feel better than the original is that the ghost baby itself is not "evil". At the beginning, it hurts objects or people that the owner, Andy, said he hated: scratching Andy's cat, and the middle-aged man who has been intimate with Andy's single mother. Andy's pissed "I want him to disappear" was "perfectly" executed by the ghost boy. It can be said that Chaji was only an explicit expression of the evil in Andy’s human nature at the beginning, and was “taught” step by step to be bad under his own program of “protecting Andy”.
The film also pays tribute to the original in many places, such as Chaji's classic scenes of stabbing people with a kitchen knife. As a "hack and slash movie," there are also many bloody scenes and a little suspense. very good.
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