Halliday’s world, Parsifal’s world

Tate 2022-03-24 09:01:14

This movie is a very atypical popcorn movie. When I was watching a movie review before, I saw a sentence saying, is Spielberg popcorn, I think he is. To be honest, I didn't really get the easter eggs of this movie. After all, I'm not a movie lover, I don't like watching anime, and I don't like playing games. So I watched more of the movie itself.

If you want to count one of my favorite characters, it should be Halliday. This old man is a freak. He is an idealist. He is clumsy and not good at talking to people. His response to the girl he likes to dance with is to take her to a horror movie. But he is a genius. He closed himself up and created his world and showed it to people all over the world. I really like him very much. His wisdom, his imagination, and even his bad words are all very attractive to me.

Compared with Halliday, Parsifal, or Wade, was a bit more bold and persistent. He knew Halliday but he knew he was different from him. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that the curator gave him that coin, giving him one more chance than the others.

In fact, there is one place in the film that I didn't quite understand. After Wade got the egg, Nolan opened the back door of the truck with a gun. He had a chance to kill Wade with one shot, but he saw the light of the egg and he even smiled. Then the police came and took him away. I've been thinking, Is Nolan's laugh because he actually feels awe of Halliday? I think so, otherwise he would not have been claiming that he had been Halliday's assistant, claiming that he knew Halliday well.

In fact, when Wade asked Halliday "Are you still alive?" I categorically told my girlfriend who was sitting next to me that Halliday was the curator. Then I was slapped in the face immediately, and I was very sad. However, the phrase "Oasis shouldn't be a game of one person" said by the real curator to Wade, reminded me of the phrase "Glory is never a game of one person" in the full-time master.

It was past ten o'clock when my girlfriend and I came out of the movie theater. When we returned to the street, we heard the sounds of cars passing by on the road and looked at the lights around us. We all felt like we were back to the world. It may indeed be that the world shown in the movie is too terrible: everyone on the road walks with VR glasses, immersed in the virtual world and hopes to escape reality. This is really a chilling prediction. Who can be sure that with the development of VR technology, the scenes in the movie will not become a reality?

Reality is the only thing that is real.

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Ready Player One quotes

  • Halliday: She wanted to go dancing, so we watched a movie.

  • Sho: Ninjas don't hug!