A technological story with no sense of technology. The viewfinder is an ordinary office. The only thing that looks more high-tech is the TV screen and something similar to a VR helmet. The film tells a triple world, the main line is to describe the protagonist in the middle world awakening, realizing that he is just a virtual character created by others, and the whole world he lives in is fake. The story suddenly became a little black humor everywhere: the words he used to describe the world he created (the lower world) completely apply to his own world.
Master Dai’s interpretation is that this is a story about freedom and resistance. The director is reflecting on whether the world he lives in is real and reasonable, or, as the movie implies, the world that people perceive and the social norms that people have accepted. It's just a lie created by someone with higher power.
If the ending is still the same, if there is no interpretation by Master Dai, I really can't understand the hidden things in this little more than three-hour movie. It takes less than 120 minutes to get used to the movie. The picture is bright, the conflict is obvious, and the turning point is clear. Suddenly watching this kind of old Western European movie is really uncomfortable. However, whether it is a Hollywood blockbuster or a film produced in the Greater China region, they carry more entertainment functions, rather than reflecting (criticizing) society, conveying culture, or conveying a certain spiritual power. Master Dai asked me to look at "movie" anew and see its connotation.
At the end, do you really believe that you are a young man who likes watching literary movies? First check if you can "enjoy" the movie list drawn by Dai Jinhua.
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