Hard to let go

Christian 2022-02-04 08:09:26

Based on the short story of Polish futurist writer Stanislav Lem, the semi-live and semi-animated film, the heroine most despised is to appear in science fiction films, but she is in a science fiction world.

Full of desire for a comeback, but also fettered by his proud mother's love, his son's illness is a reflection of the sci-fi world: people no longer live in the present, but live in their own interpretation of the present. Because of her desire, the heroine took the potion and entered the animation closed area, leaving her son after twenty years. And because of her mother's love, she destroyed her animated image and returned to "reality".

The use of space to express the flow of time has been used in the anthology of "Invisible Cities" and the film "Calm Sea". And "Futurology Conference", in a state of female protagonist, travels through three eras of film technology. Actors are props (you have to play what you want to do), and actors are code (similar to motion capture, but captures not only actions) , the actor no longer exists (take the pill and anyone can become an idol, albeit in the form of an animator).

Extremely daring emotional challenge. When the heroine as an actress was at the lowest point of her career, she designed no worst but only worse environmental pressure. Do you think you were used as a tool? But I was told to be used for the last time, once and for all, to completely model you and record it into my hard drive. Do you think your modules can still evoke admiration for you? But only one coder is fascinated by your resume, and you are hungry. Do you think you can find another desire to satisfy after this desire is shattered? The son is also modular.

That virtual world is a sketch of the times, and it is also a spiritual world where her son is held in a kite. In the end, the heroine met her son there. She was not old and his son was not terminally ill. The only thing she was happy about was that she was willing to give up.

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Extended Reading
  • Garrick 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    No matter how wild an image is, it can't bring this watery text.

  • Aurore 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    There are commonalities with DeLillo's or Pynchon's novels. Behind the efforts to lay out concepts and symbols, there are actually only some characteristic expressions. So seeing it as some kind of emotional revelation undermines the essence of the film. There is no demarcation point between the live-action part and the animation part, and there is no detuning.

The Congress quotes

  • Jeff: We at Miramount, want to... want to scan you. All of you - your body, your face, your emotion, your laughter, your tears, your climaxing, your happiness, your depressions, your... fears, longings. We want to sample you, we want to preserve you, we want... all this, this... this thing, this thing called..."Robin Wright".

    Robin Wright: What will you do with this... thing ? That you call Robin Wright?

    Jeff: We'll do all the things that your Robin Wright wouldn't do.

  • Dylan Truliner: Do you know what my dreams are, Robin? Robin? Can you see my dreams?

    Robin Wright: Four cockroaches playing poker on your lap, is that a dream?

    Dylan Truliner: Yes. But it's not mine.