Personally, I think that science fiction movies need to have two foundations, one is a science fiction core with advanced thinking, and the other is to use excellent science and technology.
Magic details complete the above kernel. The plot requirements are not high, as long as the above content can be played.
The science fiction core of this film
Integrate the memories of multiple people to form cloud consciousness, and then multiple people simulate online in it. Like all science fiction movies about dreams and brains. However, the dream has nearly random scene switching and distorted visual experience. Although the scene of this film is surreal, its organizational structure is stable and can be repeated with high fidelity. Therefore, I personally do not classify this film as a dream, but only as a construction of multi-person consciousness. For example, Total Recall and Source Code, but they only deal with single-player consciousness, this movie is online mode; or The Matrix and 13 layers, but they are only digital consciousness, this movie is pure natural brain, no semiconductors.
The sci-fi details
The real scene is the same as it is now, and the device for building cloud memory is also very simple. The decoration and equipment of the mental hospital in the 1970s only have a few display screens of this century. The implementation of multiplayer online is also very simple, with several lines, possibly a parallel structure. The setting in consciousness almost requires people to have crossed memories so that scenes can interact. The entrance to the secret base where several protagonists are located is a bus. Among the outsiders who have memories of this bus, the bus stops in front of a building, while in the memory of someone in the protagonist team, the bus stops in another place. Therefore, this amount of buses connects the two worlds and is relatively hidden. This is a necessary setting made by the movie for the protagonist team. Although it is a bit far-fetched, it is also explained in the plot, and outsiders will find out sooner or later. This detail is still very good. In addition, the connection of each memory/consciousness like neurons in the brain is very imaginative. There are still some external physical laws in the cloud consciousness. Some people will have some superpowers. Brain death will produce viroids in the cloud consciousness, and brain death It is related to the death of the body, the people inside will have a complete body again, and the time of cloud consciousness will slow down. These settings are very willful, but they are all in the past. I think people in the cloud consciousness should not need to eat or drink. If they feel thirsty, they should be given water from the outside world. Otherwise, no matter how much water they drink in their consciousness, they will quickly become thirsty again. There are many other things in the same way.
Two frequently asked questions
Brutal reality and good virtuality, which one to choose? How to tell if you're just a brain in a vat? This is not the subject of this film's discussion, it's just a passing touch. The director chose to end with people who are dissatisfied with the status quo and eager to enter virtual reality instead.
Plot Supplement
The male protagonist returns to reality in the middle of the plot, so that the overly visual movie has the compensation of reality and rhythm. Yang, the good guy who started acting, eventually became the villain, and the reckless, power-seeking Phantom became the positive character, which added a little spice to the thin plot. The cloud consciousness in the film includes objects, buildings, birds, and a lack of people. Characters are an important part of a person's consciousness. If the movie sets a virtual character, for example, using the consciousness of the male protagonist to create a person, a person everyone thinks has a body, but in the end it turns out that it is just a person created by someone subconsciously, a person who is split, the plot will be more willful and mysterious. .
All in all, the film is well thought out and done well.
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