A science fiction film with the same theme, Fassbender’s "A Day in the World" is higher than "The Matrix". Many people feel that the plot is procrastinated, but I don't think it's right, it's totally wrong. Even if the plot is faster, the emotion is gone.
I think this movie even has a feeling of Greek tragedy. In the end, the scene where Stiller met Eva in the real world and the scene where he was shot and killed in the electronic world were cross-edited, and my eyes quickly moistened. Not only happy for his reunion with Eva, but also tragic for his sacrifice in the electronic world.
Leaping away from the surface level and the plot, I think the film's performance of the electronic world is more realistic. Delicate women with sluggish expressions only exist in service-oriented professions. At first glance, they are the perfect women in their own minds carved out by men in the real world; in a regular and serious office building, the employees in it seem to be in a panoptic prison. The dictators conspired to oppress and monitor; in the third world, fat and funny transvestites were unreasonably pushed away by the protagonist, transgender people, people of color, doing obviously the lowest level of occupation...
On the one hand, the world composed of these symbols is extremely weird, on the other hand, the deeper insinuation of the real world is open to the viewer.
Even in the real world, we still have a strong desire for truth and self-knowledge. The protagonist Stiller is the first person to think about the question of "who am I" among all the living "dummies", so it is extremely painful. The ending of the film arranged for him is: the lunatic who doubted his own existence was finally saved through a series of self-seeking and confrontation with power. But in our real world, there are many obstacles to the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty and knowing oneself. They do not choose to escape. People are always suffering, and probably only if you have the courage to face this kind of suffering and don't let yourself fall into nothingness, can you live as a real person with real feelings.
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