Which One Will We Choose

Which One Will We Choose, Virtual or Fake?---My View about Simone It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. We had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.---A Tale of Two Cities These words from Dickens occurred to me after I watched Simone. Just as one of the lines in the movie“Our ability to manufacture fraud, now exceeds our ability to detect it.”There's the best technology but some worst use of it. It is the age of freedom of faith, it was the age of belief quandary. We had everything before us, we had nothing before us. We lost ourselves between something virtual and something fake.The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world. What Hank and Victor had first is only imagination and the harsh reality, Simone's coming made it better. But as the story goes, this virtual idol had to face the reality. Victor made Simone win the Oscar Prize but he forgot to make her thank himself. He was confused. He worked hard for himself and in order to succeed he forgot himself. What's the goal of his life, himself or his job? So Victor decided to destroy Simone. But beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. People were still crazy about her, and Simone even became more charming to them. The pressure from the reality and morality made him decide to end this lie with another lie---the fake funeral. The irony is that people cried a lot when Victor was caught and told the truth. Victor became the scapegoat, becausepeople believe in perfect things even they are fake and Victor destroyed their dream of perfect. Just as Victor's little daughter said:" Your mistake wasn't making someone fake, we are fine with fake, as long as you don't lie about it."We all have idols. Idols are admired by their fans because they have some qualities or characteristics that fans want themselves to have. But no one is perfect, that' s why virtual idol become so popular now. Virtual idols have perfect appearance, they never grow old, they don't have gossip or dark past, they are the most idealized images. This new tide benefit from the developing technology and become very popular now. For example, it is widely used in films. Avatar, the Hulk, the Iron man, and the Transformers, they are all virtual idols. Some people judge them and they don't think we can admire them because they are all fake , but at the same time many young people follow them eagerly. In my opinion, to some degree, people may get lost between virtual things and fake things. Something fake is something that is a counterfeit or what it seems to be, and something virtual is that something being actually such in almost every respect or existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact, it's a kind of technology. Victor lied about Simone, he made a virtual thing fake. He could have succeeded in another way, but he was trapped by emotions of sadness and anger.There is a real and successful example. Japan has a very famous virtual idol called Hatsune Miku(初音ミク). She is a perfect girl and even people know she is virtual, she is also very very popular. On March 9th. 2010, the brokerage firm held a grand solo concert called Miku's Day for her. And the tickets were sold out long before. They used a kind of screen technology from Germany and made it a sensation.Virtual idols meet people's need of persueing perfect. We can admire idols and we can persue perfect, but one thing to note here is that we should clearly know that they are not real person, what we admire are the good things on them. In addition, imagination is good but we are real person, we live in a real world, so don't be too crazy or do something fool about them.Class 4 Iris (李晶）。