从看完电影之后,我就一直在听Enola Gay。Caleb刚到Nathan的科研基地后,他的手机就放了这首歌。听到这里,黑暗的电影院里我感到突然一震,第一个预兆:
These games you play
They're going to end in more than tears some day
虽然这个曲子只出现了一下,我却觉得这才是整个电影的真正主题。
故事充分暴露了愚蠢的人类的弱点。Nathan刚愎自用,倘若他和Caleb沟通的能早一些,或许根本不会有最重的结局。而Nathan又缺乏信任,所以他偌大一间别墅,竟然没有第二个活人(让有情感的机器人服侍自己,果然最后自食其果)。至于Caleb,更是愚蠢至极,在对对方一无所知的情况下,全然信任,全盘都被算计进去。而AI,除了不具有人类所具有的道德感,尽善尽美。最后AVA的离开,简直如同仪式一样,恐惧的美。而如同我最初预料的一样,对于AI的真正检测,肯定不是人类所预先计划的。The situation will get out of the hand! 这也是我为什么觉得需要终极控制手段。
我最近才读了Frank O’cannon的 the Man of the world
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1956/07/28/the-man-of-the-world
“ I could not have explained to him how at the moment everything had changed for me-how, beyond us, watching the young married couple from ambush, I had felt someone else, watching us, and we had at once ceased to be observers and become the observed, and the observed in such an ignominious position!”
这句话照应卞之琳的诗,成为这个电影对我的第二个启发。