Maybe you have been trapped in the Internet for a long time, and you don’t know what reality is like, what it looks like, what kind of people, and what kind of things happen every day. We are a generation that relies on the Internet to grow and mature. The Internet is the other side of our life, the night and the dark side. Our desires can be expressed through the Internet, and our emotions can also be expressed through the Internet. But, one day, what happens when the network goes offline?
"Offline" tells a comprehensive story in an online environment. A detective (father) connects three independent stories. All the typical problems that may occur in today's network emerge in this drama. A detective father's son and one of his classmates used the Internet to create a fake social account to trick a music-loving but reticent child. A female reporter registered an online video community chat account involving eroticism in order to dig out exclusive materials, but touched the bottom line of this underground "industry". A husband and wife, the veteran husband is tired of work and obsessed with online gambling, and the wife chats with people on the Internet to seek psychological comfort because of the pain of childlessness. In the end, the student who was teased committed suicide, and his father found the detective father. The female reporter was coerced by the FBI to hand over more information because she broke the news, but had no choice but to find the boy who was chatting with her. The couple was caught in an online scam and the money was withdrawn from the account. The detective father suggested to the husband of the couple to directly find the fraudsters who have already made a face to confront him; he suggested to the TV station that the female reporter should be suspended for a few weeks to calm the situation. It seems that he is a savior who can always resolve other people's crises, but when the father of the child who committed suicide came to the door, he was at a loss, and then he lost control.
Does the Internet make people's lives better, or make people more indifferent? The single-parent detective father was busy with his career and neglected his son's psychological care. The blind son made a wrong thing. The father of the child who committed suicide is also busy with his career. His son is addicted to music all day long. Facing an online greeting from a strange "girl", he easily surrendered his heart. As a result, he was teased, and he was so sad that he had to commit suicide to bear it. Although they are husband and wife, the husband is addicted to online gambling to escape the unbearable reality, and the wife also confides with netizens because she has never had children. When everyone is talking loudly about the number of megabits per second, when everyone is looking forward to the advent of the 4G era, you must know that in such a "high-speed and close-range" network environment, people and The relationship between people has not progressed further, but has become estranged.
The development of science and technology drives the progress of human beings, and the Internet is one of the scientific achievements that human beings should enjoy. I always think of when I was a child, when I could hardly surf the Internet, I used to write letters to contact my friends. Sounds far away now, and it sounds kind of funny to you, who never even wrote a letter, doesn't it? Yes, it is indeed a very "original" way, but the original but effective way should not be abandoned by us. Just as some people prefer to read paper books rather than e-books, in the past, every word on letter paper was read with heart, but now I open QQ and face a group of friends, but I don’t know who to chat with. Was it emotionally overwhelmed, or alienated because of something more accessible?
In the movie, when everything that is exercised through the Internet and expressed in reality bursts out, the success of the Internet is derailed from reality. The result of making fun of others online is worse than the original way of fighting face-to-face. Wanting to expose dark journalism through the Internet has also failed to steer the results to the better side. Bringing too much attention that originally belonged to reality into the network makes life in trouble. The most emotional scene is at the end, when the father of the suicide child knocks the stick on the head of the detective's father and son, when the husband grabs the gun from the audience of the fraud suspect, when the female reporter is pushed to the ground by the head of the underground industry, the music is accompanied by emotions. It rose slowly, not spectacular, but still shocked.
As a feature film, the picture is realistic and slightly dark, and the atmosphere is also a bit suspenseful and thrilling. So I'm glad to see that the ending of this movie is bright, just like the healing movies that movie lovers love. The director gave us an open ending, but know that reality is not as good as the movie, and life is much harder than the movie. "Offline" only maps a corner of online life. Today, when there are more and more "bow-headed people", there are fewer and fewer face-to-face communication topics between people. Will there be more "disconnections"? See how far human communication can go.
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