of Technology The technological revolution that originated in England in the seventeenth century cannot be overemphasized. It is this mighty technological revolution that has made the world what we see it now. So we have the benefits of technology, such as the Internet, artificial intelligence, advanced medicine, and so on. It is no exaggeration to say that without that revolution, perhaps we are still in the slash-and-burn stage.
In recent years, natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, and plagues have occurred frequently, which has to be linked to the booming industrial development. So from the initial fantasies and shouts of technology, I began to think about the nature of technology. Whether technology is neutral or has its own biases, we can at least know from this film that technology is neutral.
"Prawn" is an insulting name given to aliens by the earth (in fact, human beings are too good at inventing such nicknames, such as niggas, such as Chinese people...the list goes on. It seems that human beings are arrogant by nature , arrogant.), their technology is no less than that of the earth. It can even be said that their civilization is a civilization that is more advanced than ours. It can be seen from the sophistication of their weapons and ships. However, armed with sophisticated weapons, they did not wage war against human society, but lived in humiliation under human rule.
The comparison of aliens and terrestrial weapons can be compared like this: a modern man with an AK47 and a primitive man wielding a wooden stick. Compared with this group of "prawns", these modern people are primitive people. Brutal, arrogant. There is no such thing as a self-proclaimed civilized person.
These modern humans use technology to dissect "prawns," and their mutant counterparts. As BOSS said, how many technical achievements can we get from him? ! Therefore, this individual is no longer important, and for another big leap in human technology (to put it bluntly, for the sake of more bulging pockets), we need to dismember him. Note that the reason why our male protagonist escaped is because he was not injected with anesthesia before being dismembered again, that means that for "orcs" (though his mind is definitely human), we use the method of killing fish: scraping alive The fish scales will let you die awake.
Let me ask, where is the humanitarianism that the Western world has been shouting about all the time? Could it be that in the face of technology, living people can only make concessions?
So we can easily come to the conclusion that for the advancement of technology, human beings can pay any price.
Although our technology is only the level of other people's primitive society, the price is too high.
Not to mention the damage to the earth's environment, but only to the impact on human society itself.
2. Endless Desire
The film chose to destroy this time, not New York or Washington, but Johannesburg, South Africa. Where is South Africa? South Africa is considered a wilderness by the Western civilized world. The people there are violent and cruel. This is the impression our media bombards everyone with. But who is behind the media? Benefit. Whose interest? Nothing but economics and power. No matter how technologically advanced, human desires can never be satisfied. Even in a consumer society and a commodity society, desire will only be expanded and amplified without limit. And while some people's desires are fulfilled, others' desires can only be fulfilled. According to Freud, frustrated desires bring about psychological distortions. So, killing "prawns" is the hobby of the black MNU SWAT. Of course, he might as well kill those black people in South Africa.
No matter how poor an area is, there can be no adequate food, no complete education, no clean housing, but there must be one thing: oppression. People have never been poorer and more united, but the poorer the place, the more privileged the existence. The leader who blindly pursued power and even resorted to eating aliens was one of them. We can sympathize with their ignorance, but we cannot forgive their cruelty.
The same is true in wealthy regions. Still fighting endlessly.
The bustling world is for profit, and the bustling world is for profit. Sima Qian had already discovered this true meaning.
And the satisfaction of desire brings the expansion of confidence. It is unimaginable that four hundred years ago, someone really thought that human beings could see everything in nature. What is even more unimaginable is that four hundred years later, people still believe so strongly.
Christianity, which was originally a secular concern, evolved into Protestantism. Weber was right in associating Protestantism with capitalism. God has become a tool used by human beings. So what is invincible?
So, what are ugly aliens? What is the mutated "half-orc"?
Even our male protagonist, although he seems to realize the incurable arrogance and cruelty of human beings in the end, why is he not one of them? I always thought the movie would have a cruel ending - human beings destroyed by their own hands. However, the director didn't seem to have the patience, or increased his box office in order to make it acceptable to the audience. In the end, it was the actor who chose the right path: sacrifice.
Western egoism and individualism no longer exist only in the West. In China, with the vigorous advocacy of the media, especially for today's young people, there is no ability to discriminate and resist Western ideas. Even the West itself is already reflecting on its own civilization, but here we seem to be unaware of this, and regard what others have abandoned as treasures.
3. Irresponsible media The
media has played a role that cannot be ignored. The entire film is based on media interviews. For aliens, the media are like curious flies, extending their tentacles to all areas of human curiosity and voyeuristic interest.
Therefore, for the reports on aliens, it is not to think about human attitudes and behaviors towards them, not to reflect on the unreasonable aspects, but to look for the tricks in them - novel and shocking. It is in this way that the actions of the MNO were not known to the world until an accident 20 years later. It's hard to imagine that in 20 years, the media is completely unclear about the true face of MNO.
Perhaps the media is clear, but it has been "checked". "Censorship" is Lippmann's concept, not only referring to the government's inspection, but the result of the media itself due to various interests. As a result, aliens are portrayed as evil, incompetent, and ugly. The conflict between the local people and the ninth district has intensified, and the media has an inescapable responsibility.
I noticed that when the media interviewed the head of the MNO after the hero escaped, the boss said: This is a terrorist attack. Don't worry, though, things are already within our control.
This "but" is the twist that our rulers often use. And the media is content with this, but cannot help but ask, where is the truth? ?
In the return of the last aliens, there are constantly commentary by male and female hosts. This doesn't seem to be about the safety of hundreds of millions of people happening around us, but a rehearsal for a Hollywood blockbuster. Undoubtedly, the public of Johannesburg, who is hinted by this, will flock to the streets to watch the aliens.
What if the alien was malicious? I can't imagine.
It reminds me of a sci-fi movie in which people flock to the Empire State Building to watch aliens, and New York is destroyed in an instant. And those who are curious, until the moment before they die, can't figure out what happened.
4. Sacrifice
Tarkovsky is a devout believer. In his opinion, some of the actions of modern people are unbearable: the gap between people, the nuclear threat, the decline of culture, the rupture of tradition... In response to all this, he proposes his own solution: sacrifice.
Sacrifice is an attitude. A kind of reverence for nature and respect for life.
The atrocities in the film are precisely those who lack this respect and awe and appear hopeless. Today, when technology has penetrated into every corner of life, and at the moment when human beings conquer one problem after another, perhaps we should reflect more. Therefore, some people put forward the concept of postmodernity. There are even proposals to return to primitive times.
These are not alarmist. Be aware that aliens are not always well-meaning. It can even be said that due to the law of the dark forest (a concept in Liu Cixin's science fiction), aliens and humans are on the same page. If human beings continue to be so arrogant, there will be a day when they will find out.
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Only today saw the United States impose a 35% punitive tariff on Chinese tires. This blatantly announced: WTO is our home, so you can only stand aside when we can play.
And such a sci-fi film China does not know what year to see it? Or is this also only through the entry of foreign capital? That's not China's. MADE IN CHINA is not something in China, but made in China. Don't let Chinese culture become someone else's factory.
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