I just found an interesting sci-fi drama from China, with the title of "Three Body". It is a sci-fi with hard science approach. The story is about an Alien civilization from Trisolaris planet who planned to invaded Earth. They will arrived on Earth in 400 years with their invasion fleet. To destroy the Earth capability to fight back, they sabotaged Earth's technology. By convert and killing Earth's scientists secretly. They created a game called Three body to recruit Earth Scientists to join their rank; while they used their superior technology to attack Earth scientists mind so they would commit suicide.
They used their converted Scientists to gather their targetted scientists for scientific discussion; to brainwash them with scientific mind games; to make them thinking that their passion in science is pointless, and their struggle to invent new technology is futile.
This sc-fi is written by Liu Cixin, who also wrote previous Chinese's first sci-fi movie, Wandering Earth.
What make this drama so special for me is, because the war between human and alien doesn't involve any weapon. At least to the current stage of the story. They use psychological attack to do their bidding. From brainwashing the scientists to kill them by using secret weapon that can cause hallucination to their target.
My favorite Alien mind game in the story is the Farmer Theory.
Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: “Every morning at eleven, food arrives.” On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn’t arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flocks.
This story tell us that the turkeys think that they will get food every morning without realized that they're themselves are the food.
Basically the Alien brainwash their victims to think that humans are the turkey while they are the farmer. And whatever these turkeys do is futile. Because at the end of the day, they are just the food for the farmer.
They used their converted Scientists to gather their targetted scientists for scientific discussion; to brainwash them with scientific mind games; to make them thinking that their passion in science is pointless, and their struggle to invent new technology is futile.
This sc-fi is written by Liu Cixin, who also wrote previous Chinese's first sci-fi movie, Wandering Earth.
What make this drama so special for me is, because the war between human and alien doesn't involve any weapon. At least to the current stage of the story. They use psychological attack to do their bidding. From brainwashing the scientists to kill them by using secret weapon that can cause hallucination to their target.
My favorite Alien mind game in the story is the Farmer Theory.
Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: “Every morning at eleven, food arrives.” On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn’t arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flocks.
This story tell us that the turkeys think that they will get food every morning without realized that they're themselves are the food.
Basically the Alien brainwash their victims to think that humans are the turkey while they are the farmer. And whatever these turkeys do is futile. Because at the end of the day, they are just the food for the farmer.
Last edited:
