Talk about free will thinking while watching a movie

Mittie 2022-04-19 09:01:54

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch's movie, because I don't have a Netflix account and I'm too lazy to open it, so I looked for resources to watch the official main story version (this is an interactive movie, the audience decides for the protagonist at the selection point, but it can only be found on Netflix operate). About four stars, the filming is good, the music is good, the expressions and acting skills of the actors are good, and then there are some Easter eggs from previous Black Mirror episodes. As for the interaction, I think it is a gimmick. The thing that made me laugh the most was that Netflix appeared in the options, and all of a sudden the movie became a Netflix hard-broadcast. There is also the fact that when the protagonist poured tea on the psychiatrist, the psychiatrist instantly broke out into a Wonder Woman, and the turn came too fast like a tornado. This kind of plot where the audience decides for the protagonist, I read it in elementary school, is a science fiction novel. The experience of this is that, on the surface, the audience/reader is given free will, but in fact the real story decider is the writer/producer, and the audience and readers don't actually decide anything. Here is the discussion of free will. Free will manifests itself as choice. The right to choose is corresponding to the responsibility. However, just like Forrest Gump's gift box, you don't know what is in the box, and you don't know what will be brought by your choice. This kind of information (between the reader and the author) Asymmetric and non-transparent, it will make people feel wronged: since I don't know whether the box is shit or chocolate, how can I be responsible for my choice? Isn't this cheating? However, "If you know early, there is no beggar." If you know the consequences and paths of choosing the future, then it is actually the same as not having a choice. Everyone knows which box contains chocolate, then everyone will choose that box, then the other boxes (selection) are useless, and the choice is meaningless here. The meaning of choice, I guess, lies in the future that is spread, generated, and created based on the choice. The future is unpredictable, the future is uncontrollable, and it is frightening, like a torrent. While watching the movie, I was thinking that free will may arise from wisdom. Without sufficient wisdom, one cannot know the meaning and cost of choice. Just like animals, they, as living creatures, are also making choices in their circumstances, but their Choices have no moral significance, because their actions are not so much a way of doing things from consciousness as they are a drift of the state of nature, and likewise, there is no way of doing things in human beings who are not intelligent enough. Doing whatever you want based on desire is not freedom, it is going with the flow, being pulled without being aware of the pulling itself. In this parallel time and space-style story structure, I found that the multi-line narrative pointing to the future relies on the repeated narrative based on the past. The past is unchangeable, not in movies The recurring past is the death of the protagonist’s mother when he was a child, and the past has a layer of connotation which is the interpretation and understanding of the past in the present. This interpretation of the past constitutes the history and the present reality, or in other words, reality/fact is not a thing As it appears, it is an interpretation of meaning. The protagonist's explanation for the death of his mother is that his father took away his toys that day, and everything was triggered. The interpretation of this phenomenon generates resentment against his father in the protagonist's heart, which constitutes the real psychological situation and the fundamental motivation for all behaviors. The murder of the father is the inevitable result of this psychological logic. When the protagonist cannot perceive the force pulling him, he cannot explain his behavioral choices. That is, his will is not free. No amount of future variables can save the inevitability of a logical outcome. The same concept mentioned in the movie is to go back to the past to change the reality. Well, I think, it's not really to travel through time and prevent my mother from boarding the train destined to happen, but to modify my inner interpretation of the loss of my mother. What is more important than revision, righteous thoughts and right views is probably the formation process of the interpretation of discovering oneself. Only in this way will we understand how our minds have come, and then we will understand how our minds should behave when faced with choices in the future, when we are faced with a rich, concrete and suggestive real world. Free will manifests itself as the temporal structure of the mind.

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch quotes

  • Stefan Butler: I've actually had a bit of breakthrough with the game. I think I'd got bogged down before, but now I can see.

    Dr. Haynes: So you finally finished it?

    Stefan Butler: Finished, delivered, everything. I'd been trying to give the player too much choice. So I just went back and stripped loads out. And now they've only got the illusion of free will, but really, I decide the ending.

    Dr. Haynes: And is it a happy ending?

    Stefan Butler: I think so.

  • Mohan Thakur: There's messages in every game. Like Pac-Man. Do you know what PAC stands for? P-A-C: "program and control." He's Program and Control Man the whole things a metaphor, he thinks he's got free will but really he's trapped in a maze, in a system, all he can do is consume, he's pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head, and even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze, what happens? He comes right back in the other side. People think it's a happy game, it's not a happy game, it's a fucking nightmare world and the worst thing is it's real and we live in it. It's all code. If you listen closely, you can hear the numbers. There's a cosmic flowchart that dictates where you can and where you can't go. I've given you the knowledge. I've set you free. Do you understand?