"Forbidden Planet": Mankind will eventually be destroyed by the subconscious devil

Noemie 2022-02-12 08:01:25

The story draws on Shakespeare's "The Tempest", the difference is that "The Tempest" has a happy ending.

The time is set at 2200. Twenty years ago, the human scientific expedition team once boarded a planet and the whole army was destroyed. Twenty years later, mankind sent a team to investigate and discovered that only a doctor and his daughter who survived the disaster were alive on this planet. After they landed on the planet, they were attacked by a mysterious monster, and some hidden facts were gradually revealed .

This is one of the most famous science fiction films in the 1950s. Although it seems today that the special effects used in the film have long been accustomed to it, the other extraterrestrial magical world constructed in the film is reasonable and full of mystery, as well as the image of a very avant-garde intelligent robot, which is very breakthrough. of.

There once lived a group of highly intelligent creatures, the Quill tribe, who created self-sufficient and self-repairing machines that could run endlessly. After the extinction of high-intelligence creatures, the machines they left behind can continue to operate for many years, but the race has been extinct, and all of this has no meaning. It can be seen that the self-destruction of advanced civilization, a common topic in the world of science fiction, has been involved as early as the 1950s.

The protagonists of this planetary journey discovered that these highly intelligent creatures have advanced technology that can visualize human subconsciousness through machines, allowing the tiny energy of consciousness to increase exponentially, and human subconsciousness can be amplified. A certain powerful entity image has been formed. And the human subconscious, due to the inherent desires and selfish nature of human nature, eventually turned into a devil, instead swallowing themselves. They killed each other and eventually led to their own genocide.

In this way, the film extends the concepts of "self", "intrinsic self" and "superego".

The concept of "self, id, superego" was put forward by psychologist Freud and is applicable to the field of psychoanalysis. The "id" represents the subconscious part, that is, the most primitive desires and deep desires of a person, which are often covered by their own consciousness and are not easily detectable, but they will appear in the night dreams and will face you after being disguised. I have shown your inner desire; "ego" refers to the conscious part of a person, responsible for dealing with things in the real world, regulating the relationship between the id and the superego, which is reason, consciousness, and thinking; "superego" refers to the part of the conscious The level is conscience and moral judgment, the inner manager, and restricts people's various behaviors.

To put it succinctly, the "intrinsic self" is the devil in the person's heart, the "self" is the person himself, and the "superego" is the angel in the person's heart.

The potential of consciousness is huge. Each consciousness is like a small grain of sand, seemingly small and powerless, but once many grains of sand gather together, it will have a huge impact on the earth. The same is true for consciousness, especially the uncontrolled subconsciousness of human beings. Advanced civilization will eventually embark on such a path, and the ultimate achievement is self-destruction.

The only mysterious monster left on this planet is the doctor's own subconscious mind. Having lived on this planet for so many years, he didn't accept this fact until he was finally forced to do nothing. He didn't want to believe that the destruction of the human scientific expedition team 20 years ago was caused by him alone. Because only creatures with high intelligence, the subconscious mind can be shaped without destroying its own brain. So the irony is that the higher the IQ of the creature, the greater the subconscious harm.

But the doctor is undoubtedly in love with his daughter, why kill his daughter? Because the subconscious is hidden deep in the heart of human beings, it is the most real expression. He felt the threat of his daughter being taken away, and finally pointed the finger at his daughter, because the daughter has grown up, has matured in mind, and will soon meet. Get out of your control. The doctor had to sacrifice himself in order to save his daughter. Only when the doctor himself disappears, his subconscious will disappear with it.

The doctor's daughter was born on this planet. From birth to growing up, the only humans she saw were his father and their robot butler. The “innocence” of the daughter is in sharp contrast with the “evil” of the father. Because the daughter was born on this planet, her personality and behavior shaping are completely different from those of human beings on the earth. She will not be exposed to the gloom of human nature in human society. She can't learn the psychological knowledge necessary for human survival, so in her subconscious, she won't have evil thoughts towards the same kind.

The topic of personality shaping is also involved here. Everyone's personality shaping cannot be separated from the influence of the acquired environment, family and society. When these influencing factors are removed, the shaping of personality will move in a direction that is relatively deviated from reality.

At the same time, the avant-garde imagination makes the image of robots on this planet very eye-catching. He is a competent butler who can analyze the formula and successfully copy the finished product you provide (similar to today's 3D printing); although he is allowed to use guns and weapons, he strictly enforces the orders not to harm humans, and the logical analysis function is very powerful. This command also created a contradiction when faced with a monster’s attack later. He could not attack the monster because the robot understood that the monster was a doctor. He wanted to protect the doctor while not hurting the monster. This contradiction was beyond the logic of the robot. Scope. ( Even robots understand the truth, but humans don't understand it ).

However, the overall style of science fiction movies of planetary exploration will not be too low, because humans have been in awe of the universe and the unknown world in the universe since ancient times. When humans on Earth communicate or collide with other civilizations in the universe, humans They are often able to realize their own insignificance, so as to achieve the purpose of criticizing human beings themselves. Therefore, in the world of science fiction, human beings are inferior, movies are inferior, and we are inferior. This low self-esteem also makes the doctor show spontaneous awe when facing the relics of advanced civilization, and deeply feel his own powerlessness when facing reality, and regret not being the first.

At the same time, in this way, it can promote our further thinking about ourselves, thinking about things that human beings already exist and can be changed, and realizing human growth by changing ourselves.

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  • Gennaro 2022-04-21 09:02:29

    I so terribly want to meet a young man, and now three of them at once.

  • Jany 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    only worship. This kind of story is not bad today, and the special effects props are comparable to those in the 1970s and 1980s. The combination of captain + first officer + medical officer, plus the blonde long-legged beauty and the cute robot, is a complete template for the future.

Forbidden Planet quotes

  • Robby the Robot: [regarding the lead shielding he is carrying] The whole thing hardly comes to ten tons.

  • Robby the Robot: For your convenience I am programmed to respond to the name Robby.