To be honest, this is a masterpiece, at least for me this movie, I watched it on and off for three days
I won't repeat the first half of the real person's role. It describes a stubborn heroine, Robin, who spends her life fighting against the tide of the technological revolution with her own desires, her guilty love for her son, and her tiny self. In the end, a compromise was chosen.
I'll start with the second half that's hard to understand.
Time flies, 20 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the time has come to 2033. Today, the contract agreed at the beginning is due to expire. The virtual character Robin has become a superstar sought after by thousands of people.
At this time, Robin's deity was driving a classic car, speeding on the endless desert road. This time Robin was going to participate in the futurology conference. Without warning, Robin in the rearview mirror suddenly turned into a cartoon image, and the surroundings slowly turned into a fantastic and grotesque animation world.
Today in 2033 at the Futurology Conference, Myramon will release a more radical sensory product - phantom agent
Let the movie become a sensory stimulation without boundaries, and everyone can use their own fantasy to build a world. In a world where fantasy and reality are intertwined, Robin came to the giant hotel of McLaren as promised.
On the surface, McLaren received Robin with the highest specifications, but this was actually a long-planned threat to renew the contract by McLamont boss Allen.
In the drinking water of the hotel, the company owner Alan mixed Robin with an overdose of phantom
Robin had a stronger hallucination under the influence of the hallucination agent. Under the great stimulation of the medicine, Allen entered a deeper second-layer hallucination dream . All hallucinations created by phantom agents are reflections of the real consciousness of the brain in reality.
In the deeper dream, Ellen's remaining beliefs are still fighting, and she takes the long-awaited stage in the second dream, singing a song "I will be silent", which of course seriously violates the terms of the contract.
The police, who symbolized the resistance of reality , appeared in the image of the boss of McLaren, rushed onto the stage with the Thomson machine gun, the iconic weapon of the gang, and forcibly arrested Robin. This second-level dream symbolizes the coercion that Robin is ultimately no match for reality.
Waking up from the dream on the second floor, Allen came to the office of Allen, the boss of McLamont, who had been waiting for a long time. This time, Allen will sign a new contract with Robin. In the new contract, Allen will become a new sensory puppet like many virtual characters.
Allen broke Robin's conflicted heart in one sentence, although the real Robin was replaced by a virtual character. Robin, who disappeared for 20 years, is still an actor full of performance in her bones. She is eager to be noticed and loved.
Even if it was only her puppet who performed on stage, even if she tried her best to resist the impact of the technology tide, she could not match her desire to be loved after all. She accepted the contract in conflict 20 years ago, and 20 years later, she will still accept this new contract because of the desire to be loved
At the grand press conference of "Phantom Agent", Robin took the stage to give a speech as a special guest of McLamont's Sensory Revolution. Robin did not submissively boast about the great success of "Phantom Agent", but slammed McLaren Entertainment . The concept of death condemns them for not applying technology to cure diseases for the benefit of mankind. Instead, let everyone indulge in illusory fantasy.
In the chaos of the "Free Will Rebel" organization, a strange man takes Robin to a safe haven. He has always regarded Robin as his dream goddess. Dylan knows that Robin has ingested an overdose of "phantoms". If you fall asleep in the first layer of illusion, you will not be able to distinguish between reality and illusion. Trapped into an irreversible fantasy world.
But under the strong influence of the drug, Robin fell asleep.
She fell into a multi-layered dream
The film is seamless here, allowing the audience to fall into the chaos of reality and fantasy together with the protagonist. Here is a nod to Freud 's theory of multi-layered dreams. Every time Robin wakes up in a dream, it means entering a deeper dream
second level dream
It symbolizes Robin's struggle with McLamon and his guilty love for his son. In the dream, Robin was forcibly taken away by McLamon and became a replica of McLamon. A red kite symbolizing his son Xiaofei appeared.
The third layer of dreams
Symbolizing Robin's desire to be loved , Dylan confessed to her affectionately in his dream, and Robin also questioned the gorgeous illusion in front of him for the first time.
fourth level dream
It symbolizes Robin's painful struggle in fantasy, escorted by soldiers in German Gestapo uniforms. Robin in the concentration camp begged the other party to kill him and give himself a happy ending
fifth floor dream
(Note that this is still in animation style, indicating that the protagonist is still under the influence of hallucinogens)
I speculate that a patient who fell into a coma heard the doctor's diagnosis in the ward and entered a dream state with only a few words. Due to multiple suicides due to rare deep hallucinogen infection, the technology in 2033 could not be awakened, and the hospital used liquid nitrogen technology to freeze, which put Robin into "hibernation" for 20 years, waiting for the possibility of cure after future technological progress.
In hibernation, Robin entered the sixth layer of dreams
Her deep concern for her son turned into a red kite flying on an ice field. Due to the bone-chilling cold of "hibernation", Robin, who was happily gliding on the ice with his son in his arms, left bloody footprints behind him.
The real world time has come to 2053
Robin wakes up to the sound of the TV news. The style of painting here is still the animation style, indicating that although Robin was awakened in "hibernation", he just returned to the basic illusion, and still did not get rid of the influence of "phantom agent".
After waiting for 20 years, Dylan, who still adores her, is waiting for her. Lead her to understanding this new world, where hallucinogen use has expanded globally
99% of human beings live in a world constructed by hallucinations. This world is bizarre, infinitely beautiful, without pain, without war, without the strong and the weak. Humans have completely released their imaginations and become almost god-like beings in the imaginative world
Robin misses his son. Flying with Dylan in the clear sky of this world, the red kite symbolizing freedom appeared again, and it collided with the steel behemoth symbolizing technology again.
Amidst the fire, accompanied by the singing of
Dylan tried his best to render the beauty of this world. Wanting Robin to stay, Robin's stubbornness still persists. She still believes that her son Xiaofei is still waiting for her in the real world
Facing a true lover. Robin still took the last antidote firmly. The gorgeous appearance of the crowd gradually disillusioned, and Robin returned to the real material world.
through the dull-eyed crowd. Robin finds his son's attending doctor Buck, who is already white-haired and white-bearded, and tells Robin that he has been taking care of Xiaofei. Xiao Fei, who lost all sensory abilities, insisted on waiting for Robin for 19 years. In the long wait of 19 years, Xiao Fei couldn't bear to see Buck grow old every day in order to take care of himself. He finally collapsed in the shake, and only half a year ago took the "phantom agent" and went to the spiritual world.
Like gravel being thrown into the sea, in that fantasy world, he has been submerged in the sea of people, he can become anyone, no one can find him, fate has passed Robin again .
The despairing Robin took the "phantom agent" again. She chose to incarnate as a son. In the womb, she listened to her heartbeat on her mother's chest.
She finally lived the life she wanted
The butterfly is me, I am the butterfly. Did you dream of the butterfly or the butterfly dreamed of you?
Maybe all this is just a movie starring a virtual character. Maybe the real Robin is no longer in love after being scanned .
Even if you're just a soulless puppet
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