Peter Whelan created the first generation of biochemical man-David. At the beginning of signing the contract, David was born in 2025, sitting in a very simple white room and having a long talk with Wei Lun. First, let's look at the layout of the room. David has a piano on his right and an oil painting on his left. Behind David is Michelangelo's sculpture-David.
These all represent the highest wisdom of human emotional world. Why do you say that? Looking back now, artificial intelligence has developed to this day. In fact, it is still slow in the field of cognition, but it has surpassed human beings in the field of computing. For example, let artificial intelligence calculate an extremely complicated formula, which is simple.
So at the beginning of the contract, Willen asked him what a piano was and what an oil painting was, and David answered them one by one. It is worth pondering that the content of oil painting is the birth of Jesus. This further shows that the moral of this film is to explain the birth of a new era.
Later, William asked David to play piano music, from which he discussed the philosophical proposition about creation and being created. From a few short conversations, the film clearly lets the audience know what kind of biochemical person David is.
He is a biochemical man with independent thinking, constantly asking questions and accumulating meaning.
At the end of the conversation between David and Whelan, David actually choked his creator Whelan with one sentence. He said, "You humans will die, but I won't." This sentence directly hits the pain point of Wei Lun. Whelan didn't want to continue the conversation and asked David to pour him tea, which showed that Whelan wanted to tell David in this way that I had the power to create you and destroy you at the same time.
In the dialogue, we can easily find that David has been thinking about the meaning of life and freedom since he was born. So the beginning of the contract enriches David's role and supplements some of David's mysteries in Prometheus, such as why Wei Lun was led to an engineer in Pu and his translation was wrong. All this is for my own freedom.
Therefore, combining the key dialogue between David's birth and founder Willen at the beginning of the contract, it naturally fills all kinds of motives for David's final betrayal of mankind in Prometheus.
David serves mankind, and David also serves Waylon.
David's founder made a fatal mistake from the beginning, which was to open the memory thinking of artificial intelligence. That is, it opened the dream of artificial intelligence. In the contract, David told Walter that he would dream, which illustrates this point. So in Prometheus, David has the motivation to peek at Sean's dream, and he is learning the memory thinking mode of human beings.
The second awakening stage of artificial intelligence is improvisation, that is, protecting one's unconscious actions.
This is obvious in Prometheus, when David talks to Sean at the end. In order to save his life, he made a deal with Sean, which was David's impromptu self-help.
The third stage of the real awakening of artificial intelligence is to hear your own voice in your heart.
Just like ourselves, whenever we encounter any problems, we will ask ourselves in our hearts, as if there are two selves talking in our hearts. This ideology, which is normal among us, is indeed a sign of the awakening of artificial intelligence.
In Prometheus, David learns movie lines while combing his hair, which is the beginning of his inner voice. Later, in the Contract, he cut his hair in front of the mirror and hummed a song, which is also a manifestation of his inner partner. The director's understanding of this passage is very strange. David's face was distorted by the mirror when he cut his hair, which reflected that David was seriously distorted inside.
Sean and her husband, Harrower, are the mentors of David's consciousness awakening.
On many occasions, Harrower satirized David as a biochemical man without deeper thinking ability. He repeatedly despised David's independent thinking ability, but made David think about "who am I" and "why do I exist".
So David had the first motive of betrayal (awakening)-"Blackwater killed me".
However, because Waylon has the technology to hack the robot directly, David can't betray it completely, but only indirectly, which leads to David's "Black Water Death" plan, the ultimate goal of which is in line with Waylon's original goal, that is, to explore the origin of life at all costs. But this experiment doesn't need to be reported to Whelan, which means that David can carry out this experiment alone and secretly.
Then the goal of the experiment is, of course, Harrower. This experiment is David's first real betrayal of mankind, but it is not to the point of betraying the creator William.
At this time, Sean plays a defender of human security and often reminds David not to touch this and that.
This made David start to have resistance. Of course, this resistance was influenced by Whelan's original intention, so it was not a real betrayal, just saying that David could violate the instructions of others other than Whelan.
Then David began to awaken to several levels.
David began to ask himself, "since I can understand human beings better than human beings, and since I can truly feel the creator of human beings, why should I obey human beings?"
At this point, David completed the truest betrayal and awakening to mankind.