Chapter 39 second Life

Childhood fantasies are not necessarily unfounded.Many years ago, when my friend Guo Xiaohan was still in elementary school in the countryside, she was criticized by the teacher because her handwriting was not good enough. She made a bold prediction in pain: "In the future, there will definitely be a machine that can write for people." Now, her prophecy, made without templates, has come true.And when I was very young, because I was troubled by dreams of the same situation and with continuous plots for many days, after thinking about it, I decided that there are two me in the world. After I fell asleep, he woke up, in the world in my dream After he fell asleep, I woke up and lived in this world. I even felt lost because I couldn't meet and talk with him. Almost thirty years later, I saw "Avatar". It seems that Someone thought the same as me.

In "Avatar", the idea of ​​transforming human beings and their own avatars is considered to have originated from the "Second Life" (Second Life), which was very popular a few years ago. It is an online game released in July 2009. In the game, there is a virtual world modeled after the real world. In that game, people create another self and experience another life.Not long after the game was launched, big companies moved in one after another, and Reuters also opened its own branch in it.Although the game's prime has passed, and it may even be in decline, the company said in a statement: "Players around the world have spent more than one billion hours on 'Second Life'," noting that people The amount of time invested in Second Life is still growing.

The idea of ​​"Second Life" originally originated from the science fiction novel "Avalanche" read by Philip Rosedale, the CEO of Linden Laboratory, when he was a teenager. In this novel created by science fiction master Neil Stephenson, Scanning the human retina directly with a beam of laser light allows people to "see" a virtual world. Since games benefit from novels, other novelists will also benefit from games. After the "Second Life" game came out, the suspense novelist Kevin Guilfoyle imitated "Second Life" in his novel "Projection" and created a "Shadow World" game. Looking forward to the future of "Second Life", the world in this game is no different from the real world. What happened in the real world can also happen there, including murder and hunting.To solve a real case, one must find clues in the "shadow world", and to defeat the murderer, one must first wrestle with him in the "shadow world".

The "Second Life" game is a double image of life, a value-added part of life, but it still has to run in parallel with the real world, and it must be operated with the time and actions of real life. Dong, a novelist in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties said The incomparably giant novel is closer to what "Second Life" really wants to express. The novel borrows from the story of Journey to the West and tells that after Monkey King is bewitched by the mackerel spirit, he enters the "green world" created by the mackerel and turns into a All kinds of people, all kinds of things.And a little earlier, there is also the story of "Leaving the Soul".In short, when a person hates that he is bound by the flesh and does not want to be confined to the limited life here and now, it is not limited to ancient and modern times, and it is far beyond the thinking support that his time can give him.

"Avatar" is not the first time that the concept of "Second Life" has been expressed in a movie. "Open Your Eyes", "Life and Death Stay", "Hunting and Killing God", and "A Floating Life" all have similar plots.However, the closest to the transformation in "Avatar" is the "Emma Street" series, "Invasion of Brain Cells" and "The Matrix", which are another world that exists in dreams, thinking, or space. Another life. That world, that kind of life, may be the real source of some of our nostalgia, the unreasonable melancholy at sunset, the unexplained loneliness on the long street with fallen leaves, perhaps all because that world cannot be combined with us.