分离技术是否是财阀对人民的肉体+精神掌控？被分离出来的工作人格是人类还是工作机器？本剧的确是一场对宗教、伦理、科技的前瞻性讨论，本篇评论仅从冰山一角进行窥探，抒发一些自己即刻的感想。
以前看电视剧基本看的是情景喜剧/国内的悬疑电视剧，比方说《摩登家庭》《小谢尔顿》《隐秘的角落》《想见你》等等。虽然都十分的喜欢，但从未有过与这部剧类似的观剧体验。因此每看完一集便写一些感想，中英文夹杂，请见谅。
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平滑的运镜，强迫症般的中线对称，我恍惚想到了韦斯安德森。但这工业风的场景布置、一尘不挂的大面积单色，实在是与韦斯高饱和的欢脱世界截然相反。第一集具体内容记不清了，但音乐和画面都像苹果手机的设计一样，舒服，但强迫症到令人发指的地步。
...哦对，想起来一个情节，Mark面试Helly时被音响砸伤脑袋。下班后收到公司的道歉信，但信上他受伤的原因却是编造出的谎言，可见公司自己也知道自己做的是见不得人的勾当。
...第二集节奏快于第一集，而且同第一集，结尾留了一个抓人的悬念。四十还是五十分钟一集，疑点重重，云里雾里，给予观众的信息量少到可怜，我们同innies（公司里的人）一样，没有任何记忆，只能一点点摸索。
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“this world of crap mortifies the hell out of me and Lumon is the shithole that brainwashes its workers with cult”. 这是看完后我发给朋友的感想，简而言之，Lumon这家公司太邪教了！简直是一切矛盾的起源地，搅乱了本来就黑得不见五指的生活。主角的outie（现实生活中的自己）生活平淡无趣，提不起精神。来了一个原是朋友的佩蒂，但他只带来了濒死挣扎，无尽的疑惑顾虑，和四伏的危机。看完第三集后我甚至没有胆量点开第四集，无形的配乐紧紧扒着剧情，瞌睡的员工眼前粘稠的黑水浸染公司，还有那间休息室。
...休息室是让我觉得Lumon是家邪教公司的直接原因。“这些污点只会存在于我的身上，除了我，没有人可以为我赎罪。”很多宗教都秉持人生而有罪的观点，我们现世之所以遵守规戒，是为了减轻死后的惩罚。休息室里强迫员工阅读的这些话一点点洗脑他们，使他们坚信自己行为的罪深恶极，从而全心全意为Lumon效力，接受黑人监察员和银发老太太无时无刻的窥探和精神虐待。
...Helly’s outie videotaped her, saying the unlike her, the innie Helly is not a real human. Thus all decisions should be made by her, including whether to designate from Lumon. It was a warning bell for me, as technology like severance being invented and humans becoming dolphin-like and possessing double brains, are we separated as two? It is true that the two personalities already parted, one with full memory about childhood and adulthood, the other merely nothing but work. One scene particularly attracts me, that Helly stepped into the elevator after getting out of the break room, next thing she knew was the elevator arriving at the basemen of Lumon - a new day has started. It’s like working 24 hours without rest, a tormenting hell.
...In the end, Helly hang herself in the elevator, though I question why hasn’t the elevator door closed, the wonder of whether she could be alive outside Lumon hunts me. True, Helly was severed, but her body remains as one, so my intuition tells me that the death is irreversible for both the outie and the innie. （但后来发现她并没有死，为人类强大的生命力欢呼。。
Helly is like an intruder and a law-breaker, who was hired to restore peace but instead agitate the environment to a more chaotic state. Before her, the sudden runaway of Pede stirs the balance of the office, making everything crisis-ridden for the unnatural and overly rigid workplace.
What kind of organization sets the manager to peek its employer day and night? What kind of company lasts for centuries without disruption? What kind of company biblizes its principles and rules and hangs murals of its funder everywhere? The worship of the corporate culture is becoming religious, as much as religion gives faith in people, it drives people into a frenzy. The break room is a perfect example, as if Lumon employees dedicate in the meaningless refinement work to pay off sins they made in the real world, where they possess absolute no memories in.
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不同讲述者口中的历史是截然相反的。图中一幅画作出现了两遍，相同的构图和绘制，唯一变化的是主动被动两方的身份。这场屠杀的主使是Optics and Design 还是Macro Data Refinement？抑或是Lumon创造的谎言，为了孤立各个部门？
...当Ms. Cassie发现Helly and Mark missing, she panicked and asked them whether they were hurt the second she found them. This may be an indication of the hidden danger inside Lumon, and that the massacre may be lurking somewhere.
...另外一个引人入胜的点就是哺育羔羊的男人，《新约》称耶稣为“上帝的羔羊”(约1：29，36)，说他为担负世人的罪孽而献身受死。羔羊亦比喻民众，如《以赛亚书》第40章11节：耶和华“必像牧人牧养自己的羊群，用膀臂聚集羊羔，抱在怀中”。当喂羊人发现Helly and Mark by the door, he was terrified, scolding them away, shouting “don’t take them, they are not ready.” If according to Bible, the lamb here may be a symbol of scapegoat, being killed to make up for the sins humans made. Like in the break room, “除了我，没有人可以为我的行为赎罪。”
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无论是Lumon员工还是管理层，都或多或少会引用Kier的语言，以佐证自己的观点。我想到了当同性恋刚被媒体抓住大做文章时，反对的人会引用《圣经》，支持的人也会引用《圣经》。在Lumon，Kier就是the higher power, whose words are engraved and passed down. He’s no longer a human being, but a symbol, a character that everybody uses to support their own truth and justice. This is what may happen to a religion, that is, it was created for empowerment, but gradually through centuries of worship, becomes a tool that contradicts itself.
...原来被innies可以在公司外部被唤醒，而不在Lumon上班的人，如度假村的产妇，也可以被分离。这种情况下，分离的作用肯定不止是平衡工作和生活了，可以被看作是当局者对人民直接的物理+精神掌控了。
为什么Lumon负责执行分离手术的医生这么执着要反对分离手术？她知道什么不为人知的秘密？Lumon如此迫切地隔绝各部门联系又是为了什么？
OND部门的Burt在被发现和MDR联合后立即迎来了退休，虽然欢送会的气氛十足的喜悦，但正如Irving所说，innies退休就相当于自杀。这种情况下，severance是否创造了一个机器劳动力？这个劳动力存在的意义只有劳动，而且除了其他的机器，无人知晓存在。一个机器离开又换成另一个，反正大家都不知道自己工作的具体意义，流水线工作多你少你一个又有什么影响呢！这个机器的消亡与陨落，本体，即outie，无从得知也无从关心。虽然Burt的outie feels satisfied and fulfilled everyday after work, but he doesn’t know a single thing about what he does and how exactly does the innie feel.
...As much as Mark feels the sense of deliverance from the death of his wife thanks to Lumon, severance is in fact an escape from real life. The loss of one family member is unbearable for many, but that such life. I know it sounds condescending for I never experienced the loss of one close family member, to sever a new self who holds total ignorance to the reality can’t be the solution to sorrow. And the severed new self may be going through inhumane treatment but the outie has no recognition of, this way the outie creates pain for both selves.
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华夫饼派对后面的舞蹈真的像邪教仪式。另外overtime mode开启后，Mark肯定会认出来他的邻居是自己上司，好害怕会把辞职的事情搞砸。宏观数据经检部门的觉醒是四个人的启蒙运动，大高个不再盲目崇拜公司邪教，而是开始审视公司和所处环境；小胖子看到了儿子，有了作为父亲的认同感，也不像从前那般愤世嫉俗、出口成脏；Helly原先作为一个冲动的抗议者，现在也会制定精细计划，悄无声息改变命运；Mark从不情愿接任工作，变成了小组的头，真正地有了担当。主角妹夫的那本书可以说是他们的精神指导了，知识改变命运（笑
...多线叙事，好不刺激！最后一个大反转——主角老婆虽然现实世界死去，但在分离世界仍存活着。再加上议员老婆说的，因为分离技术，她才有精力照顾三个孩子。一下使人意识到，分离技术不能消失！赫丽的身份十分独特，是Lumon公司千金，这也可以解释为什么她的Innie即使自杀她也不愿辞职。她对媒体宣称与自己的Innie情同手足，实际上根本不看待Innie为人类。资本家丑恶的嘴脸。听说原本有十集，因为收视率出奇的好把最后一集切掉了，那就明年看第二季吧！开等！
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