The second episode was interesting to me personally because it was very immersive. I also traveled alone as a backpacker before, and at the same time, I was also engaged in the vr/vr related industry, and I also had romantic relationships with girls I just met on the road. In addition, my mother is also very insecure and often calls me. As long as I can't pick up, she will make up for my various accidents, and I am a little repulsive in my heart.
Going back to the plot, this episode looks like it's about an augmented reality horror game, but it's actually about a traveler's psychedelic experience, and it's a bad trip. This point is implied in the film very bluntly. The chip that Aunt Hei implanted in him is called mushroom. This point is similar to Li Xianji's Adventures, where the lack of time is a hint of leaf, and Li Xianji also rewarded a mushroom for clearing the game. That movie is also one of my favorite cartoons.
First of all, let’s talk about the hallucinogenic experience of mushrooms. The following content I have not personally experienced, completely from the Internet. Mushrooms can be hallucinogenic, but not limited to visual effects, it can also affect people's cognition and judgment, changing a person's perception of things. After taking (a large amount), along with the absorption of the active ingredients, the cognition of the user will be gradually distorted, from the initial mild visual hallucination and euphoria, to an inexplicable sense of panic, and then the disappearance of the concept of time and space, Disappearance of self-consciousness (personality separation, observing oneself in a similar third person), accompanied by flashback phenomenon (flashback, the experiencer feels that he has gone to another time and space, has experienced many things and come back, but from the perspective of the bystander, it may only be for a few seconds).
The reason why the film slightly procrastinated in explaining the male protagonist's daily life in the first half is actually accumulating material for his dreams. The big spider in the movie I first watched on the plane. The company boss and his "horror game" printed in the magazine. relationship with the heroine. Credit card overdraft. There is also the draft of the original artist that I saw in the company. And so on, these have become the material of dreams.
Then look back at the entire dream process.
In the beginning, it was euphoria and visual illusion. It was in the first episode of whack-a-mole. The male protagonist danced and danced all the time, but from the perspective of monitoring, he looked like a fool. It is worth noting that a normal person would not be so excited even if he actually saw a gopher, suggesting that his cognition had begun to change.
Then it entered the panic stage, including a large jump scare after that.
Then there is suspicion, distrust of those around you, doubting everything. He would question every word of the heroine, and doubt her for apparently illogical things like copying a credit card. At this stage, the male protagonist has obviously lost his basic judgment.
Then there is the disappearance of the concept of time and space, the disappearance of self-consciousness. As soon as the male protagonist entered the door, the door behind him disappeared. I don't recognize myself in the mirror. From this stage, the male protagonist has completely detached from reality, and everything he has experienced is pure illusion.
The flashback after that revealed that the male protagonist's biggest knot is his mother, which is a psychology of love and escape. When he was desperate, he struggled for a long time and still had to call his mother. It is implied that he does not have any special work app, and the source of income that supports him to travel around the world is actually gnawing. This feeling of guilt has been haunting him in the deepest part of his heart.
When the male protagonist died in the end, the Japanese conversation between Aunt Hei and the boss meant that the phone signal interfered with the uploading program, resulting in death, which was considered the ending. As for the ending, it may be that he and his sister were drunk in the apartment and consumed hallucinogens and died. It was already a hallucination from the interview. After all, the whole second half was a bit beyond common sense.
So it is not difficult to see that the screenwriter has a high probability of adapting such a script based on his own psychedelic experience. The prototype of the story is probably "About the incident when my sister and I were playing mushrooms with my sister and was interrupted by my mother's phone call, which caused the plane to crash".
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