《機器人夢遊症》Robot Somnambulism
蕭立峻 Richard Hsiao
2016︱紀錄片 Documentary︱Color︱90 min│3/13(一)│14:00│台南藝術大學 音像大樓152放映室
富士康,世界最大的電子產品代工廠,生產組裝半數以上的iPhone,2010年發生連續跳樓事件引發關注,手上時時刻刻握著iPhone的人們,彷彿才突然意識到生產手機的工人們,過著每天12小時,每7秒一次的機器式勞動。心中有些許不安,但握著iPhone的手卻無法鬆開,智慧型手機已經徹底改變人類的生活方式。另一頭,曾經是台灣之光的HTC手機,上游的觸控面板廠卻發生打壓工會的事件,工會跟聲援的學生找上HTC抗議,讓HTC的主管們既狼狽又委屈,同時,一名HTC的工程師疑似過勞死,臉書最後的訊息是週日凌晨三點「下班了issue還是無解…」。這個時代,由像機器的人製造像人的機器,是一齣無望的悲劇,還是一個美麗新世界的開端?
Foxconn, the world's largest electronics OEM factory, manufactured and assembled more than 50% iPhone of the world. In 2010, the serial jumping of Foxconn workers caught attention. People holding iPhone suddenly noticed that it's producer were working like a robot, acting every 7 seconds, 12 hour a day. They felt a bit uneasy, but cannot loosen their hand. Smartphone has changed human life completely. On the other side, the company supplying touch panels to HTC were suppressing worker union. Union and supporting students choose HTC to protest, making its managers feel embarrassed and aggrieved. Meanwhile, one of HTC engineer died possibly because of overworking. His last message on Facebook was "off work, issue still not resolved", AM 3 o'clock, Sunday. In this era, robotic people making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?