Episode 1
The quantitative social evaluation system is like a cage, which binds the fresh and real life. Putting on the mask, what catches your eye are numbers one after another. When you use hypocrisy and flattery to try to improve the social evaluation given by others, you will gradually drift away from your true self. A false display is a journey of self-exhaustion. Instead of getting the admission ticket to the "mainstream" society, it is better to live a transparent life and be a free self in the "niche" world.
Episode 2
The border between virtual and reality has sparked a lot of discussion. But I don't want to make too many inferences and interpretations on this. If every detail shown in these shots is to be explained reasonably enough, it will inevitably lead to additional conjectures. The over-extension of conjectures inevitably deduces all kinds of possibilities, but they cannot avoid a certain degree of far-fetchedness, and in the end, they often exceed the original intention of the creator. To make matters worse, we sometimes even have to convince ourselves of far-fetched reasons in order to conform to our inner-preferred conclusions. If so, is this story still the original story, even if we can grudgingly explain it?
So, our guesswork is best not to go beyond what the plot actually shows us.
The experiment begins at 5:38, and after the sixth blue light on the head-wrap indicator lights up, a signal interference from Mom's call prompts the male protagonist to enter the virtual world. After 0.04 seconds, the silent vibration pulled the male lead back to reality, the indicator showed an error, and the male lead unconsciously called "Mom" a few times before dying suddenly. All virtual situations occurred within this 0.04 second.
The above is what the film really tells us, although many questions have not been answered, but reading this is enough for me. Is the hero really dead or still in a dream? Is the process of secretly taking photos in a virtual situation? Why is the angle of the suitcase in the shot inconsistent? I don't think these are important anymore, and maybe even the creative team didn't think to justify these plots.
Instead of thinking about the perfect plausibility of the storyline, I instead tried to think about what the virtual and the real are.
Maybe they are relative in themselves.
No matter how bizarre the situation in the dream is, we never suspect it is false; it is only when we wake up that we realize that it was a dream. But how can we prove that the waking environment is not illusory? After all, our perceptions are just as real inside and outside of dreams. Maybe we're just living in another, broader dream, where consciousness flows so vividly through the situation that we think it's reality.
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