2. This type of film can easily become like a B-movie due to low cost and the director's self-abandonment. But this one doesn't. From the beginning of the university professor's dinner speech, there was a commercial momentum. Although after that, due to cost constraints, the film always showed the background of cost control in terms of scenes and other aspects, but it did not affect the quality. Obviously, the director has his own ambitions.
3. This set of films is basically introduced by "money" and derived from spiritual and philosophical levels. So, the protagonist must be a loser. He needs money to solve practical problems, and can be imported into the game by agreeing to the first few requests with a prank and bad taste under such urgency. It is precisely this kind of clue that the film presents a journey from a shallow dilemma to a deep dilemma. A small but sure-fire money that leads to half-way crime and the ultimate end to humanity.
4. Since the manipulator is always present only in the form of voice, he/she/it becomes a metaphor for God. This voice is almost divine and can manipulate human nature. Everything a man does is motive and action. This voice understands all the original motives of human beings, and controls and demands all human actions. Then all those who participate in the game are "materialized". This process becomes the perfect mirror image of contemporary society. People are running for their lives without a trace, and it seems that they are always manipulated by some kind of voice. The final gain and loss are difficult to calculate, but the film has taken this process to an extreme.
5. From the beginning of joining the game to enjoying the fun in the middle, in the second half of the game, I started to feel scared and wanted to quit, but it ended up being a sacrificial object. Being involved in this process is nothing more than desire. Whether to be controlled by desire or to keep free will all the time, this is the proposition that the film has been exploring. Those who participate in the game, without exception, believe that they can have free will, take advantage of money while controlling themselves, stop in time, and only get benefits without paying a price, but in the end, everyone, without exception The ground is swallowed by desire, and free will is vulnerable in the face of desire.
6. The manipulator is a slightly hopeful pessimist. He uses a cynical mentality to experimentally provoke people to participate in the game set by himself. While trying to satisfy his pessimistic presupposition, he also wants to see if anyone can really become the master of his own will, and not be controlled by others. manipulation. In contrast, all those who participated in the game were shown a rabble and irrational side. They either fell deeper and deeper by themselves, or they distrusted each other or even hurt each other. The picture is almost a desperate God shining a bright light on the face of hell.
7. In a sense, the film also mirrors the scene of a totalitarian society. A ubiquitous monitor perfectly presents the possibility of a "panoramic prison". The film uses this soft sci-fi way to further amplify people's fear radius. At the same time, the manipulator destroys the moral, legal and human nature. The established social order reconstructs a set of other laws, in which people fight against each other, stimulated alternately by fear and reward, and cannot extricate themselves. Chinese audiences should be more concerned about the interpretation of this level.
8. THE MOVIE HAS A SEVERAL FAILURE. First, the setting of the male protagonist’s family members, father and son being all caught in the game is too extreme; second, the reversal of the police role has no practical significance, and the director’s purpose is to create a feeling of being laid with an endless net , there are monitors and participants everywhere, spies and whistleblowers are everywhere, but none of that can be clarified through this police back-and-forth; third, the ending is the biggest failure. This is a too happy ending, full of false luster, why is this bright and high-spirited tail? 90% of the movie is about the evil of human nature and despair and chaos. Why is it suddenly set to such a hopeful and even middle-class ending?
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