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In the hearts of many sci-fi fans, Terminator is definitely the first choice if you want to choose the best sci-fi movie in film history. The pursuit of excitement and amazing special effects are still shocking. But in essence, this film advocates eschatology and directly points out that the development of science and technology will bring destruction to mankind. In essence, the Terminator series greatly exaggerates the negative impact of science and technology, and belongs to the standard anti-science film.
The plot of the Terminator series is very old-fashioned. It is said that in the future, the artificial intelligence "Skynet" has developed to a certain extent and has a high degree of personality wisdom, so artificial intelligence declares war on human civilization. It manipulated the nuclear powers to wage war and almost destroyed the whole world. ...
What if the outbreak of nuclear war is contained? The plan given in the film is to send the protagonist to destroy the scientist who invented "Skynet" decades in advance.
This implies that movie audiences realize that technological invention is very dangerous and will inevitably bring "dark fate" to mankind. It is better to nip in the bud than to risk developing technology. We should even legislate to ban research in related fields. I believe that as long as you have seen this series of audiences, you will have this idea. So, Cameron's goal was achieved.
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What kind of person is this world-famous director Cameron?
Cameron has been actively advocating "returning to nature" and opposing all industrialization. He himself excitedly ran to Brazil to participate in the local anti-dam demonstration. Including Avatar, which he later directed, is actually an anti-science film. Anti-science will eventually move towards anti-humanity. There were some psychedelic sports in America in the 1970s. Young Americans, including Jobs, go to developing countries to experience local religions. There is a setting in the story of Avatar that the tree is the place where all souls are concentrated, which is a popular religious concept at that time. After the female scientist said it, the mine owner said, are you taking drugs? This is actually a reappearance of this movement in the United States. Young people eat some banned chemicals for the mysterious religious experience.
The China film market in the new era began with Hero in 2002. In that year, there was only 654.38+0 billion box office, which increased several times last year. Therefore, the vast majority of film practitioners have started to enter this industry in recent ten years. What they learn is a high conceptual model, plus a pessimistic view of the future. Zheng Jun, a science fiction writer, once asked a science fiction film project planner, why do you set the future in science fiction films and only write about the destruction of mankind? He told Zheng Jun that he had never seen the opposite science fiction film! So, he only shoots things like "destruction" and "doomsday".
These anti-science and pessimistic sci-fi films have also influenced the creation of domestic sci-fi novels. There are only a handful of domestic science fiction writers except Liu He and Jiang Bo, and almost all of them have mysticism and anti-science tendencies. Some of them are still obvious. Wang Jinkang, a sci-fi mogul, wrote a trilogy "Escape from Mother Universe". The plot in the second film "Father and Mother" has typical characteristics, saying that earth scientists invented egg-laying people, and in order to take refuge, they managed to colonize aliens with hundreds of eggs, and then propagated on other planets, and these descendants became aliens. Because a lot of impractical religious and philosophical knowledge was deleted and abandoned in order to survive better, the technology of aliens has developed by leaps and bounds and evolved into a highly developed mechanical civilization. As a result, they lost their humanity, and with highly evolved technology, they went back and invaded their home planet, the earth, and almost extinct the earth people. Therefore, in the preface of Jiang, it is written that the development of science and technology needs the guidance of religion. It seems that without religious constraints, technology will be everywhere.
Back to the Terminator series, we can't see the solution to the problem, only desperate nuclear war, endless pursuit, blood and terror. As long as people who have seen Terminator are basically afraid of artificial intelligence, they think that this thing should never be done, and it is better to be in a "primitive state". Some extremists even think that all technology and industrialization should be destroyed. For example, Professor Song Tian is an example. Song Tian believes that industrialization is the evil and cancer of the earth, and human beings should return to the "pure natural" life of slash and burn. Because, only in this way, science and technology will not appear, and Song Tian thinks that science and technology is "original sin".
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Like some other sci-fi movies in Hollywood, they constantly exaggerate nuclear terror, but fail to see the reality that nuclear weapons can effectively contain wars: if the 20th century is divided into two halves with the birth date of 1945, we can see that the number of people who died in wars in the first half without nuclear weapons is much higher than that in the second half with nuclear weapons; Comparing Vietnam War with Iraq War, we can find that the total number of casualties in the war under precision bombing is much less than that under carpet bombing.
Because the anti-science trend of thought prevails in foreign science fiction circles, it naturally affects China. The domestic sci-fi industry started late, and the sci-fi world was founded in the 1980s. At that time, the editors didn't know how to make science fiction, but only learned from foreign countries, thinking that that was the correct route of science fiction, and this period was the period when anti-science thoughts flooded. This has also led to the mainstream publication of the national medical fantasy world, Science Fiction World, which always has the most theme: destruction.
These anti-science fiction novels or movies have a grandiose slogan called "Rethinking Science". But in essence, it is always against others, and it is not allowed to be against yourself. Therefore, "reflective science" has become "anti-science" in essence. This is the truth of science fiction now.
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In fact, what really has a negative impact on human society is not science and technology, but industrialization.
Industrialization will indeed bring some negative effects to the world, such as emissions and pollution. But the problem can't be solved by closing. People who think in science and engineering have two modes of thinking, one is "quantification" and the other is "choice". According to extreme environmentalists, all factories should be closed because industrialization has caused ecological pollution. However, people who know how to "quantify" and "choose" will make detailed quantitative calculations, know how much loss will be caused to human society and how much pollution we can bear if all factories are closed, and then work out solutions in turn. And anti-science people, they don't quantify and choose, they just want one, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off all.
Just like the concept conveyed by the Terminator series movies: To solve the potential "danger", it is to eliminate scientists in front and eliminate potential technologies in advance. In fact, these so-called "dangers" are just some people's fantasies.
I hope that professionals will come forward to expose the anti-science and science fiction themes represented by the Terminator series. If no action is taken, future generations will think that anti-science is the mainstream of science fiction in this era.
Author: Questioner