The second episode was really, really, really desperate.
It makes sense to read as consumerism, but my first reaction was dystopia
Much like "1984"
The most terrifying thing about a totalitarian society is not that everything is programmed and symbolized, it is not the suppression of some people, or even the elimination of people's desires, but that this society has no thought, does not allow thought, and finally allows each individual to "voluntarily" Programmatic symbolization, becoming a walking dead. When the "individual" dies, can the collective live forever?
Maybe that's what inspired ⌄ For Vendetta. The plot rhythm of this movie is not amazing, but why it can be sought after and remembered, because the power and charm of the protagonist V grabbed the audience.
What makes people even more frightened is that in our current society, everyone feels that even if they are not completely free, at least their thoughts are free. At least the mind is free? Still think that the mind is free.
I think that in order to make a "thought" your own, you must at least understand (a lot of times we think we understand, but in fact we don't), through dialectical thinking and comparison, dismantling and reorganization, (through practice?) Wait for the final result, instead of listening to someone's golden sentence and immediately thinking it makes sense, not the most powerful people think so, so I also think so, and it is not a subconscious approval after listening to repeated calls for brainwashing without logic. . So are our thoughts really our own?
It's not necessarily the system's fault, it's hard to tell whose fault it is. You can even say that people are born with such limitations, but sometimes they are too obvious.
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1. Background This "new world" has a strict system. Everyone is in another place before the age of 21, and after the age of 21, they will come to the "bicycle room" to live a boring life day after day (the heroine's words). There are no elderly people in the room, which means that the elderly should be dealt with in another place. And you can't go anywhere else, the bike room is mandatory (otherwise the male protagonist will run out early)
2. The male protagonist's neighbor is "freedom is slavery". The happiest person in life is the one who doesn't think and walks the way others want you to go.
3. Symbolize "autobots", "yellow men" and "entertainers". These people are virtual animations on the screen. They are not considered "people" with real emotions. Of course, they also symbolize themselves. . no truth, no humanity
4. Enough pessimism enough despair: the disappearance of thought
I'm still complaining that the system in this new world is not perfect. It actually allows everyone to talk. If there is talk, there will be the dissemination of ideas. Aren't you afraid of a "peasant uprising"? When the male protagonist shouted out his innermost thoughts, I was so happy, and at the same time complaining about the new world, how could he let him continue? Turns out I was being naive. They have been completely lost. They think that the "performance" of the male protagonist is very good, but they think that what the male protagonist says is very funny, and they have no resonance with the system that the male protagonist has fucked hundreds of times to obliterate humanity. Even the higher-ranking judges felt the same way.
5. Even the "heroes" are shattered
The male protagonist carefully puts the broken glass into the elegant box, and the broken glass has changed from his determination to defy reality to a tool for making a living. The more advanced penguin said he wasn't after "real" anymore. When he went to a higher level, he became a "beneficiary" (?) and lost the will to resist. (Only the exploited resist the system. When the exploited becomes the exploiter's vested interests, they will no longer resist? But the question is, the male protagonist can't be considered an exploiter, right?)
This is the first time to write a long review, and the words are not satisfactory, Haihan.
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