The heroine of the Fifth Dream, Sarah, appeared as a lesbian policeman in a future world. She was frustrated with her job and lost almost all her colleagues in a massacre. She was the only one who survived, so she hangs every day. Brain tracking the murderer; on the other hand, she has a near-perfect life - the female partner is a mature and sexy VR technology company executive, and she loves her very much, they live a prosperous life, and she has a flying self-driving car! So the contradiction between these two realities formed a painful torment for her - how could she enjoy such a beautiful life while her comrades in arms were still bitter, and she still couldn't avenge them for more than a year.
Watching her become increasingly depressed, her girlfriend Katie brought her a vacation in order to relax her. Through the VR equipment tested by the company, a virtual reality environment that is close to the real experience can be created, which is like a vacation. It is an escape from the original life-because the logic of this VR is to compile the plot based on the user's own dream, rather than creating a unified virtual reality, so it has a tailor-made, indistinguishable true and false. characteristic, and therefore extraordinarily real. Sarah, who entered the VR dream, is no longer what she used to be. She has become a black male, George. As George's Sarah, she found out that she is the boss of a VR technology company, but she just experienced the pain of widowhood not long ago, and her wife was kidnapped during a kidnapping. was murdered in the middle, and the wife turned out to be Katie's appearance. After traveling back and forth between the two worlds a few times, Katie has doubts, as if Katie's world is not real, George's world is real, because Katie's world is too good to be true (and it's not actually beautiful. , where she lost her comrade-in-arms and went through pain), while in George's world he was going through the pain of losing his wife, as if this life of pain was more in line with her expectations (as in "The Matrix" twenty years ago. "Welcome to the real desert" by Morpheus to Neo).
Although in a few back-and-forth trips, Katie has begun to see that something is wrong with George's world, where he's always confused, his memories are fragmented and blurred, and there are scenes similar to Katie's world. But at the last minute, she was persuaded by Paula, the friend in the VR world, to destroy the VR equipment, permanently close the passage through and stay in the VR world.
But wait, is this really the truth? In one of the scenes, when Sarah comes to the scene where she first travels to George's world, George's world is online, Sarah's world is behind, and Sarah is hit by criminals and immediately travels to George's world-here Both of them achieved the crossing without carrying VR equipment. In other words, the world is already structured in Sarah/George's mind like hardware.
That is, physically speaking, both Realities are real to Sarah/George. Her choice is not so much a pursuit of truth as a choice of moral self-redemption, as Katie said, We are all sinners (we are all sinners). Life is atonement. If you can choose a life that better atones your sins, the soul will be more easily liberated.
The Fifth Dream is very similar to "The Matrix" and "Inception" in terms of structure and story theme. The question of reality or simulacra, as analyzed by Baudrillard, is indeed a big problem in our era, which is why twenty Years later, The Matrix and stories like it still seem so relevant today.
Ps It is said that everyone in Hollywood wants to play Philip Dick's work, so no matter the protagonist and supporting role of this play, they are all big names/old actors. The style of the whole show is similar to Black Mirror, but the theme of the story goes further than Black Mirror.
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