In recent years, escape room games have gradually become popular and become a popular project for friends gathering and company team building. I also played it once, with my wife, because she was less timid, so she chose a simpler romantic theme, and there was no danger of escaping it, but if it failed, the two men and women separated by a wall would not be able to develop a relationship. We are not worried about this, after all, we have children. According to the boss, there are more complex and exciting rooms, with themes including murder, ancient castles, and more.
The core of an escape room game is solving puzzles. Players are trapped in a closed space and rely on clues on the scene to find the prompt information to open the door. Advanced games will have multiple rooms nested in layers, and the puzzles will be more complex and mind-blowing. This film was born out of such a game setting and pushed it to the extreme. Several of the film's protagonists are invited to participate in escape room games, some for prize money, some out of curiosity. They soon discovered that the dangers of fire, flooding, and falling from high altitudes in the game are real and will kill people! However, there is no turning back when the bow is opened. Once they start, they cannot withdraw. They can only go down one level at a time, hoping to escape. As the "game" progresses and the plot unfolds, they discover that the setting of the room is closely related to their respective experiences. Moreover, all participants have one thing in common: they are the only survivors of a past disaster. Obviously, someone set up a game to attract them and forcibly took away their luck. From the beginning, they did not intend to let anyone out alive. Other games need money, but this game sucks. So, it's called "escape" instead of "escape".
Escape room games are appealing because they satisfy people's desire to test the edge of fear without sacrificing safety. Claustrophobia is a kind of human instinctive fear. Once you break through the claustrophobic state and escape from the secret room, you will get a great sense of satisfaction and achievement. The premise of safety is based on people's basic trust in strangers in the commercial society: game operators are for profit, and they will not harm us for no reason if they are strangers to us.
This film breaks that premise, tearing open and exposing our inner fear of strangers. Fear of strangers is also one of the instinctive fears of human beings. This fear drove our ancestors to build the earliest groups by blood ties. In the commercial society, the broad social division of labor has replaced the self-sufficiency within small groups, and the richness of material life has suppressed people's instinctive fear of strangers, but it has not disappeared. Under the stimulation of horror films and suspense films, all kinds of instinctive fears have emerged, let us relive the taste of heart palpitations and tremors. Speaking of which, isn't watching horror movies and suspense movies not satisfying people's desire to test the edge of fear on the premise of ensuring safety?
WeChat public account: "littlebasinyo"
View more about Escape Room reviews
