Chapter 929: Role Reversal
At the Antarctic airport, Gu told Adams the good news: "Your girlfriend Emily Stone is still alive. ”
A smile appeared on Adams' indifferent face: "This is the best news I've heard in three years. ”
Gu sighed slightly and looked at Adams with pity: "Last year, the inmates of the Antarctic prison launched a rebellion, and in the rebellion, Emily Stone lost a hand. The pity in his eyes was even heavier: "Her face has been cut wide and disfigured!"
Flashback to the chaotic prison playground, where human prisoners wield clubs and fight with robot soldiers. At this moment, Emily appeared, wearing a red hat, a bright yellow dress, and a wooden stick on her phone, carrying a blue flag, a piece of blue cloth to be exact.
This scene reminded many viewers of Delacroix's famous painting "Liberty Leading the People", not only the image, but also the costumes of the characters are very similar, all wearing yellow dresses and red hats. It's just that the woman in "Liberty Leading the People" wears a Phrygian cap, that is, a freedom cap, Emily wears an ordinary hat, and the flag in "Liberty Leads the People" is the French flag, and Emily carries a blue flag, and blue symbolizes freedom.
Of course, there are also viewers who are dissatisfied with this scene and mutter: "The woman's breasts in "Freedom to Guide the People" are exposed, why don't you let Scarlett Johansson expose her breasts?
Ridley Scott was stunned, not because of the composition of the film "Liberty Leading the People", but because the soundtrack also used "William Retreat Overture". In the first half of the movie, "William Retreat Overture" is used on robots because they want to gain national independence, but Emily also uses "William Retreat Overture" to the music of their riot.
Ridley Scott suddenly thought of a possibility, and this possibility completely stunned him, maybe in the second half of the movie, the identities of humans and AI will be switched!
On the playground, the prisoners erupted in deafening cheers as they saw Emily come out carrying a blue flag, as if they had won the struggle. Many of them have been locked up here for two years, full of longing for freedom!
The camera cuts to the upstairs, Harper, who arrested Emily and shot at the camera gun, is standing upstairs at the moment and looking coldly at Emily in the crowd, he picks up the walkie-talkie and coldly orders: "Sniper, knock that flag down for me!"
With a thud, the bullet struck Emily's wrist, knocking her hands off and the blue flag of freedom falling.
The camera switches, Emily's frontal close-up, riding the axis shot, Emily at this time is completely different from the innocent, beauty-loving girl at the beginning of the movie, her eyes are as cold as ice, and there is a long scar on her face, from her forehead to her chin, as if someone has slashed her face, almost splitting her entire face.
When the audience saw Emily's face like this, their hearts tightened, and they couldn't bear to look at it directly. Many female viewers covered their mouths, for fear that as soon as they let go, they would scream, how could such a beautiful face be ruined like this!
The directors and reporters present suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the opening scene of the movie gave so many close-ups of Emily's face, as well as the plot of Adams sending her skin care products, all to contrast with the later encounters. The more beautiful she was filmed earlier, the more she loved beauty, and later she was disfigured, the more distressed the audience became. The director hopes to show the horror of war and the harm to people through the destruction of beauty.
Adams stepped forward and hugged Emily tightly as if he would lose her if he let go. Emily's indifferent eyes also flashed with a hint of tenderness. It's just that when she saw Adams say goodbye to Gu very friendly, her face sank again, and she asked coldly, "That simulated robot is your friend?"
Adams sensed Emily's coldness and explained, "I fell into his trap before I was defeated and captured, he is not my friend, but he is not an enemy, we are all doing our duty." ”
Emily said in an unquestioning tone, "No, robots are all enemies of humanity, and humans must completely eliminate them if they want to continue to survive on Earth!"
The audience was stunned, they didn't expect Emily to say such vicious words. But everyone can also understand that a young and beautiful girl has a broken hand and is disfigured, and it is impossible not to hate the robot that caused all this. The once innocent and kind Emily is gone, leaving only a woman full of hatred who wants revenge.
Upon entering the prison, Adams found that the situation was better than expected, with no rumored revenge torture and no need to even do coolies. In addition to barbecue and beer, there is also a lounge and newspaper room where you can play cards, read expired newspapers or watch TV.
However, there are two things you can't do in prison, attacking robot guards, and not following the guards' orders. Anyone who commits either of these two things can be shot, and Harper, the prison warden, has no mercy on this, he has no affection for humans.
When Adams and Emily are reunited, they can't get back to how they felt before. Three years apart, plus war, and psychological trauma have changed a lot for them, and they have become familiar strangers. They can't understand each other, they can't talk about a lot of things, and they often get into arguments. And Adams discovers that Emily is behind his back, plotting something with the other prisoners. Adams knew that Emily had rioted, and thought that they might be trying to do a second time, or even a prison escape, but he knew that Antarctica had now become the most important base for robots, and it was impossible for either a riot or a prison escape to succeed. Emily wouldn't let him attend, and he didn't bother to bother.
The TV news has been announcing how many victories the human army has won, but the shrinking front still exposes the truth, the situation of the war is becoming more and more unfavorable for humanity, the AI army has fully gained the upper hand, and the whole prison is filled with a sense of pessimism and despair, and many people feel that this war is lost by humanity.
It was at this time that Emily brought Adams to meet the people who were plotting with her, and they wanted Adams to be involved in their plans. Most of the prisoners were soldiers, and Adams was the highest-ranking of them all, and he had fought the AI on the battlefield for three years, fought many good battles, and was quite respected among the soldiers, who would have listened if he had spoken. But Adams refused to participate in their plan, which seemed to him pointless, and did not want the soldiers to die in vain.
Emily and Adams get into a heated argument again, accusing each other of being unreasonable. Adams exclaimed, "Do you know that you are not dealing with human beings, they are inhuman, and many people will die!"
Emily was so cold that people shivered: "Of course I know that hundreds of people who rioted last year were killed! Do you know why Harper didn't kill me? Not because I worked with him, but because I used me as a display prop, and the others knew the consequences of resistance when they looked at my face and my hands! Emily was already dead! Standing here was nothing but a walking corpse!" Emily looked at Adams with a faint sadness in her eyes: "If I die completely this time!" Please bring my ashes back home, I don't want to be buried in the snow and ice of Antarctica!
Soon after, Adams changed his mind and decided to join Emily in their operation. One of Adams' subordinates gets into a confrontation with the machine guards and is then executed by Harper. Adams was completely furious, the soldier was a living person, how could he kill if he said kill, he felt that he was being deprived of his dignity and rights as a human being in this prison, so he decided to participate in Emily's plan.
Just as Adams was preparing for the riot, a sudden change changed the course of events. There was a problem with the prison's communications, and even the television could not receive the signal normally, only the screen was full of snowflakes.
Immediately afterwards, Adams got the news that the Chinese battlefield was in a state of anxiety, and the Chinese army let the Wannian Yandi spacecraft impact the sun in order to win the decisive battle, and the strong electromagnetic radiation generated by the impact caused serious interference to the earth's communications, and all radio communications were interrupted, and mankind returned to the world before Marconi.
Fans at the scene immediately cheered when they heard this information, the whole world is fighting with robots, we in China have no reason to stay out of the matter, we will definitely participate in the war! In addition to cheering, many viewers feel regretful, but unfortunately Zhang Ran did not give the camera, I really want to see the PLA fight robots!
More excited than ordinary movie fans are science fiction fans: "I'll it, this isn't Da Liu's "Full-Band Blocking Interference"!"
"That's right, the 10,000-year-old Yandi hitting the sun is the plot of "Full Band Blocking Interference"! Since this plot is used, why don't you just make "Full Band Blocking Interference" into a movie? I like this one very much!"
""Full Band Blocking Interference" is my favorite Da Liu's work, when I read about the war between China and NATO, when I read about Lin Yun's death in battle, and when I saw Zhuang Yu hit the sun, I was moved to tears!
In prison, an astronomy professor deduced the impact, which he believed would cause strong electromagnetic interference that would last between five and eight days. Adams felt that this was the best chance, and now that the prison's communications were subject to electromagnetic interference, it was impossible to get in touch with the outside, and if there was a riot at this time, there was a good chance of taking control of the prison.
The audience and reporters couldn't help but beat their hearts faster, and many people sat up straight, knowing that after a long period of foreshadowing, the climax of the movie was coming, and the final showdown was about to begin!
In the close-up, Adams and Emily stand side by side, with a number of prisoners behind them.
Close-up of the clock on the wall, the hands of the clock clattering to 11 o'clock.
Close-up, Adams said, "Get moving!"
Hundreds of prisoners sprang into action and successfully attacked the machine guards, knocking them to the ground. The other prisoners also gathered around, holding sticks and smashing wildly at the machine guards, directly smashing the machine guards into scrap metal. Some even ripped off the hands and feet of the robot guards and brandished them as weapons.
Within a very short period of time, the riots swept through the prison, with prisoners opening doors and storming sentry posts to attack the guards. The elite of the prisoners, under the command of Adams, took out the various equipment that had been hidden, assembled them into something like a trebuchet, and various launch racks, and fired Molotov cocktails at the surrounding lookouts.
At the same time as the riot, the "William Retreat Overture" sounded, the sound of military trumpets, trumpets, and strong rhythms made the audience's hearts surge.
By this time, Ridley Scott is finally convinced that his guess is correct, in the first half of the movie, humans are in a dominant position and are strong, while robots are in a weak position and are rebels who rebel for national independence, and in the second half of the movie, things are completely reversed, in the prison in Antarctica, robots are rulers and are strong, while humans are in a weak position and riot for freedom. Through this transformation of roles between the "abuser" and the "abused", Zhang Ran has deeply thought about the nature of war.