Unlike this year’s other hot desktop movie, Internet Mystery Searching, the dark web uses the form of screen narrative to show a watching game wrapped in a suspense-thriller genre. This kind of viewing has two meanings. It is not only a participant in the killing game inside the text, but also a movie audience watching the protagonist's destiny process.
If you don't watch the end, this movie seems to be a low-cost suspense film, and it does not have much depth in discussing Internet privacy and dark web issues. A lot of screams and crying close-ups are only visually like a shallow horror film. However, what’s interesting is that the scene at the end of the film reveals to the audience that all these murders of the protagonist, the manipulation is also a game, in essence, this is a large-scale webcast, and the condition for this kind of live broadcast to occur is on the screen. Viewers who keep leaving messages, in other words, if there is no audience, this kind of live broadcast has no meaning.
Therefore, from this perspective, the connotation of the film may not be a purely network security issue, but a viewing issue in the Internet era. Some people may think that the audience watching the killing game in the movie is unreasonable and absurd, but in fact, this is not far from real life. With the advancement of technology, we can find a trend that individuals are gradually becoming the objects of display, from social dynamic texts, to pictures, to short videos, which are constantly showing more. And this kind of display is generally not for yourself, but for the viewer. With the continuous emergence of content, viewers will form a desensitization reaction to the displayed content, which means that they need stronger stimulation to produce the same pleasure as after viewing the previous content.
In addition, when the individual's subject disappears and becomes the object of being watched, the person is also alienated into a spectacle or even a spectacle, and the privacy and privacy of personal life disappears. And people's involvement in the lives of others has reached an unprecedented height. But this kind of intervention is an irrational intervention, a kind of scrutiny and voyeurism, and the viewer invisibly believes that he has gained some kind of superiority and God's perspective of prying into the lives of others. As at the end of the film, people’s comments show that they enjoy the game of manipulating others. In this sense, the film asks the question whether the desire to peek at others is human nature itself or is being continuously amplified by the development of the Internet.
The first level of viewing of the unfriend 2 dark web is the viewer's viewing of the murder in the text, but I think there is also a second level of viewing, that is, the viewers who watch the movie outside of the text, viewing the entire process. In fact, what the movie audience sees is exactly the same as what the live broadcast viewers see in the film. The audience's reaction to the content in the film is just a satire of themselves. In other words, when we were watching the dilemma the protagonist encountered, we also entered this live broadcast. The only difference is that we know that this is a movie, and this is not a real web live broadcast. But in fact, the live broadcast in the film and the live broadcast in reality are essentially spectacles and prying eyes of others. Therefore, the audience also enters the live broadcast, and the more the audience enjoys this viewing process, the more deeply involved and Spy into the lives of others.
So, this is the interesting part of this movie. It is like a mirror of the modern Internet society. While the audience is involved in the fate of the characters, they are also involved in the viewing of their personal lives. Although the film is a bit rough in terms of audio and video, it does not prevent it from becoming a reflective work in the context of the rapid development of the Internet era.
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