Really reproduce the world of drug addicts

Maudie 2022-08-16 19:55:43

Drug users, in the illusory world, get not a moment of pleasure and enjoyment, which we can easily ignore. If there is pleasure when eating something, and then the pleasure disappears soon, then it is difficult for us to become addicted.

Therefore, the movie actually shows an addictive world. Can really let us experience why drug addicts are so obsessed with drugs. The protagonist is unlucky, because of his failed marriage, a pair of children are not with him. His career was not going well, because he was obsessed with dreams and loves painting, so he was not attentive at work, and was caught by his boss and fired. Because of a moment of anger, he punched the boss to death. It is obvious that he lives in a world that is out of control, a world that does not belong to him (others dominate, and the happy ones are others).

He hung his boss in front of the back window glass of the curtain, then fled the company and went to the cafe opposite. He met a miraculous woman, and she asked him to help her get the man who fell in the toilet, and snatch the blue crystal (in fact, high-purity drugs) and wallet from the guy. Then she can use the energy of the blue crystal to control the world: As a result, with her gesture, the protagonist’s boss just fell from the window. Everyone thinks that he committed suicide, and the protagonist does not need to be suspicious. Then, the amazing woman actually took him to demonstrate how to arbitrarily control those who do not like to fall on the skating rink. In fact, it was obvious that she gave him drugs and then led him into a "world in which he controls everything." Not only that, she also took him into a pure "real world", in the way of "The Matrix" (he entered another world after a large dose of drugs, but the film treated it as a dedicated person in charge connecting Reception, need to wake up from the sleeping cabin).

That world is not only beautiful, but the key is high-end atmosphere: that world is very clean and tidy, and it looks like heaven everywhere. More importantly, we are all gentlemen and ladies, all wise men, all thinkers, and all scientists. You don’t have to do dirty work. What you do every day is to engage in scientific research, such as projecting the spiritual environment on the screen, or immersively experiencing the "dark life (actually our real world)" to obtain "happiness" Sense" (Always no sense of happiness without comparison). And the sense of gain in this world is the glory of creation and invention.

In this way, he is actually her lover, he was a great scientist before, and now his miserable experience is only willing to be her experimental mouse, to experience the "illusory" painful world, to experience the "real life" Happiness".

Just as in the article I just read, Asimov's understanding of the destruction of mankind by artificial intelligence: because artificial intelligence does all work, human beings have nothing to do and lose their meaning. If human beings are in such an extreme environment and want to stay awake, then they have to experience from time to time the "flies and dogs" and "unconsciousness" before the liberation of human beings.

Therefore, the idea of ​​the movie is quite logical. It also truly shows why drug addicts are deeply addicted to drugs because of the "perfect experience" they get in the illusion: a heavenly environment, complete control of the outside world, without any responsibility or even an extremely noble mission. And these are things that the real world cannot give them.

Because as long as there is a drug relay, they can stay in that world forever. Therefore, when the drug confession is withdrawn, how to obtain drugs eagerly, even at the expense of killing, is "justified."

So how to get free? The protagonist is because of his daughter, even though Wonder Woman tells him that it is an illusory image. But the protagonist always believes in the authenticity of the daughter, and the daughter's love for him, even if the father not only did not attend his graduation ceremony, but disappeared for several years, the daughter did not give up looking for him. Because even when he saw his daughter in the illusion of drug use (in fact, it should be in the real world), he struggled to wake up from the predicament.

In the end, the mysterious woman was arrested by the police for murder, and he chose to receive drug treatment and returned to his daughter.

Because directly facing the illusion after drug abuse, we really feel the problem of drug users, and we can naturally understand the director's idea of ​​"using family affection to break the illusion and save relatives". 2021/2/17

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Bliss quotes

  • Isabel Clemens: The thing is that... it's amazing how easy humans can get used to even something spectacular. Most people say, "Ignorance is bliss," but I say... you have to experience the good to appreciate the bad.

    Greg Wittle: No, the other way around.

    Isabel Clemens: Exactly.

  • Esteemed Guest #3: My grandmother used to say, "The universe is sitting on the back of a tortoise." And I would ask Granny, "What is that tortoise standing on?" She replied with quite confidence, "Another tortoise. "And that one stands on another tortoise. And that one, another tortoise." It turns out it's turtles all the way down.