I didn't understand the movie too much. Some plots in the movie are puzzling. I think this is a very weird, somewhat mysterious, disturbing movie (even a little bit of mystery).
The actor is the boss of the TV station. By chance, he was attracted by the TV program produced by "TV Station Competitive". He asked someone to investigate the source of this mysterious show, and finally found the professor who was on the show with him. To his surprise, he found that the professor was dead. The live TV broadcast was just a videotape.
The actor's girlfriend found the source of the mysterious show, the organization "Optical Miracle". In the video, the girlfriend killed the professor. His girlfriend is also a member of this organization, and she is sent to seduce the actor.
The actor kept appearing in illusions, and later found out that his assistant was also a member of "Optical Miracle", and the show he saw was not just a video tape. The purpose of this organization is to control the television stations owned by the male protagonist. They successfully used the male protagonist to get rid of the partner and eventually committed suicide.
Some of the plots in the film are puzzling. It is difficult for me to understand which are illusions and which are reality. Is the professor's daughter a member of which mysterious organization? Or is she also part of this plan? Why did that organization kill the male lead's girlfriend? Why does that organization have to occupy this niche TV station?
I understand that when I began to doubt the boundary between reality and illusion, the expression of the film was successful. The most important thing about this film is to show the impact of television on people: television has become a part of our lives, even an organ of us, it is even more real than reality, it is a kind of surreal, we are addicted to it Here, it is impossible to distinguish the real world from the virtual world.
Television satisfies our various subconscious desires. The SM plot in the film is just a gimmick, becoming a symbol of our desire.
Although we have reason to doubt whether there are still so many people watching TV, the Internet has gradually replaced TV and has become a new kind of surreal. The same holds true for replacing the TV in the film with the Internet. Nowadays, it is difficult for us to get rid of the influence of the Internet. The Internet has become an organ of us, and our time on the Internet is even longer than in reality. The Internet has profoundly changed this society and forever changed the human species. This is the practical significance of this 1980s movie.
We can connect the plot in the film with the real world we live in today: When we see a huge device installed on the head of the male protagonist that can cause and record fantasy, the first reaction is that this is not the current VR equipment ?
The film does not discuss whether television is good or bad for people's lives. It just shows how this new media, new technology has changed people, and its tremendous influence. Our age should also shoot a film about the impact of the Internet on mankind, and become a manifestation of our age.
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