WestWorld is THE fictional TV Serie.
My mind was blown away by it. I wonder deeply about what's coming next.
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" by Edgar Allan Poe
Westworld is a personal voyage in to the cosmic human mind.
It goes beyond everything I have ever watched on screen sci-fi storytelling related hence giving me a rest or a struggle (!?) to my own mind every time each episode’s finished!
The vigorous message throughout this ten episodes is that it plays with your mind. Mostly because there are four dimensions, in a world we have never seen before. Our world. Or the world we have imagined of.
What’s the reality in this story? Humans? Androids? Hosts? Newcomers?
Well, the reality in this story is consciousness! Memory, wit, technology and men craft to build such a TV series.
Relating it to Black Mirror is a faithful coincidence. Once reference to AI and Game is all over the place. Technology did it. Humans did it. We evolve, unmeasurably!
Dreams? What’s the concept of dreams?
One month before I started watching Westworld I wrote about my experience in having Black Mirror for supper. As you can see on the post at this blog about BM, I wrote: “Black Mirror makes you wonder. Wonder more”. When you wonder more, there’s Westworld.
According to history and science, in the early 16th century Amerigo Vespucci named the New World what would later be called the Americas in the age of discovery. Before that classical geographers thought of the world as Africa, Europe and Asia [Afro-Eurasia].
That world is nowadays known as the Westworld.
If we were to talk about an endless twist from the pilot The Original until the season finale The Bicameral Mind, we would have a rather nice journey through hippocampus where short term memory is located. But twists are just a detail in scriptwriting art.
Westworld goes far beyond that. Frequently dares the viewer with the philosophical question: Meaning of life.
What others referred to Samsara, where cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or mundane existence were applied to human life. It also refers to the theory of rebirth and "cyclicality of all life, matter, existence". The continuous flow. Reincarnation. The new life.
Hosts or human like androids sense the feeling of being in some place sometime before, but they can not be quite sure, because memories are a trap. There’s also references to next life and past life, in a spacetime world just like the cosmos.
In the current era of digital technology enhancement, everything might appear as a dream. But the dream world we have been thinking since the beginning of times is just the cornerstone.
Westworld is the “holy grail”.
The door to another dimension. The superlative concept of storytelling through audiovisual. The highway to the brain. The secret passage to the cosmic consciousness.
Where do we go from here? Can not wait to see what’s bringing on to the table, Jonathan Nolan and his wife Lisa Joy for the second season of Westworld.
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