Who's controlling you?---Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

Sunny 2022-04-22 07:01:25

It is said that this is a modern and relatively novel way of playing the plot, which is to decide the ending according to the audience, so this movie has a lot of endings, because the public has many tastes. Because there are so many endings, and I keep watching it repeatedly, it reminds me of a movie "Falling in Love with You One Hundred Times". Because my lover will die, I want to prevent such an ending. The male protagonist keeps using records that can go back to the past. , and constantly let his life come back, just to avoid or prevent the ending that the heroine will be killed by a car, that is, to change the fate of the ending. The difference in this show is the choice of the audience. The male protagonist Stephen Butler is a programmer. He wants to develop a game software, and of course he can get a 5-star game. He wrote the game based on the book Bandersnatch, which is characterized by the fact that different choices have different outcomes. In fact, it's not a strange thing. Isn't life full of surprises with different choices and different endings? Although there is a saying in our old saying that "there is a god three feet above the head" to be vigilant against doing bad things, it is also the same as using conscience to control oneself. But in reality, especially in the game, you will find that once you enter the game, you only have the choice given to you by the game developer. In fact, you have no choice beyond the development of the game developer. The deepest feeling of this is that when I played with a drift bottle, when I caught a fish, there was a choice called "throwing it into the sea" or "freeing it." We can't steal things in China, so this contradiction has also confused me. If the game is a game, the reality is reality, but the game is played by people in reality, I play with my heart, I can't make a fake or the me in the game. So, the controller of all games is the game developer. Remember Plato's dialogue, there is always a person to lead the conversation, and the leader who leads the conversation will lead you into a world that he wants you to know and get an answer that he approves. Unless, your knowledge is wider than his. And in life, who do you want to control you, is it yourself? Is it someone else? Or fate? Should this be an option?

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch quotes

  • Dr. Haynes: The past is immutable, Stefan. No matter how painful it is, we can't change things. We can't choose differently with hindsight. We all have to learn to accept that.

  • 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.