Kite and Plane

Uriel 2022-03-25 09:01:23

Robin: Look at me. Wake up!

Some dreams are so beautiful that you wake up disappointed. The Futurology Conference frantically shuttles between the virtual and the real, and the more back-and-forths blur the boundary. At the end of the story, some people must be heartbroken. Not to mention whether it is a good work or not, the director is well-intentioned, and every detail seems to be a Hamlet-esque hint, coupled with an open structure, it can be said to maximize the freedom of self.

1. About virtual and reality

It is not easy to distinguish between virtual and reality. Assuming that there are multiple dreams, when a person wakes up from a dream, it is almost impossible to detect whether he has entered the real reality or entered another dream. Therefore, virtual and reality are two relative concepts. Even if you wake up from one dream and enter another dream, the latter dream is reality for this person. The Matrix and Inception are somewhat logical.

2. About kites and planes

The benevolent sees it differently, and the kite may be the romantic symbol of the airplane. The heroine's son is flying a kite on the edge of the airport, and the airport administrator warns: don't cross the line, you know what will happen when you cross the line! This is probably referring to the confusion of virtual and reality, which will produce bad results (the animation part, the kite collided with a plane and became fireworks). Concepts related to flight appear many times in the film, such as flying birds, human hands turning into wings, kites, airplanes, etc., burying the seeds of freedom.

3. About imitation and creation

What is the simulated person formed by scanning the person in all directions? The heroine in the film was copied to the "computer", and the digital heroine replaced the original heroine to shoot various movies. Although the point of the film is not here, it is a question that is intentionally or unintentionally ignored: Is the digital heroine human? Some would say it's a bunch of code, no thought, no creativity. In another scenario, if it is a clone (instead of scan) a person, the answer should not be so obvious.

A dream come true.

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Extended Reading
  • Tamara 2022-03-28 09:01:14

    Using the combination of live action and animation, the transition from exploring the future of movies to the choice between the real and virtual worlds, the dialogue between the characters is thought-provoking, and it is indeed very similar to the director's famous work "Waltz with Bashir". The mind-opening setting is full of helplessness and despair, as well as the story told by the agent when the heroine scanned it. When Dylan gave the heroine eraser capsule, he likened it to a Nazi soldier's cyanide capsule. . . Impressed by the director's talent

  • Ernestina 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    At the beginning, we saw an old face from a close-up perspective. It was almost presented. The sound came from outside the painting, which was an extension of the film. It allowed us to see the helpless position of losing its dominant power. Another shot, when Robin came into the studio, before pushing back on track, we saw another similar shot where the producer made a lot of mockery about Robin's career, he showed an absolute dominance, as A set of suspended fore/reverse hits. The camera that scans and captures replaces the spotlight, in a similar circular track, looking down close-up, a shot that means "curtain call", like heyday in her career. People who have lost their subjectivity are full of their own gods, and becoming the other means being a lonely god, gaining worship and self-disappearance. Abrahama is a desert in the geographical sense. Through the rear-view mirror of the car, we see the hallucinatory animation image, which is also the real meaning of the "animation control zone". Drugs provide us with a filter to view the world, and consumerism is in regulation. teach us what to fantasize about.

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.