"a person (It can be assumed to be himself) He was operated on by an evil scientist. His brain was cut off from his body and placed in a tank containing a nutrient solution for brain survival. The nerve endings of the brain are connected to a computer. This computer Send information to the brain according to the program, so that he maintains all normal hallucinations. For him, it seems that people, objects, and the sky still exist, and their own movements and body sensations can be input. This brain can also be input or intercepted Memories (cut off the memory of brain surgery, and then input the various environments and daily life that he may experience). He can even be input code and'feel' that he himself is reading an interesting and absurd text here: a person is evil The scientist performed the operation. His brain was cut off from the body and placed in a tank containing a nutrient solution to keep the brain alive. The nerve endings of the brain were connected to a computer, which was sent to the brain according to the program. information to enable him to maintain the illusion ... all completely normal "
on this fundamental question is hypothetical:"? how do you guarantee you that they are not in this predicament, " "
the Thirteenth Floor "is about probably is such a Story: Several people with cutting-edge technology, led by scientist Fowler, used computers to create a virtual world in 1937. This virtual world exists in a huge group of computers. People can connect with the virtual world through specific instruments to connect themselves The memory of is implanted in the brain of the selected object in the virtual world, so as to enter the virtual world and borrow the body of the agent to do whatever he wants (it can be understood as "ghost upper body" in our Chinese thinking). With the accidental death of Fowler, the founder of the virtual world, and a series of incredible events, another important member of the group Douglas (and the protagonist of the film) gradually discovered that they were in a self-righteous world in 1999, but also Another virtual world created by others...
Movies of this kind are not uncommon. The film and "The Matrix" were released in the same year, and the themes are quite similar. Once the latter was launched, it received numerous praises and was hailed as one of the greatest movies in the 20th century. The film’s reputation is also quite good. In terms of the ideological nature of the film to be expressed, "Alternative Dimensional Hacker" and "The Matrix" have their own merits. For gorgeous and alternative performance techniques. Of course we have to admit that the shot of Neo wearing a black cloak flying from the ground into the sky is far more than what seems to be a crude and perfunctory journey through the fantasy space-time tunnel (every time the protagonist enters the virtual world). The visual impact is a hundred times stronger, but just as the pursuit of a true, good and beautiful girl does not necessarily require the romantic sentiment of a Korean drama, I think there is no problem with the director of "Alternative Hacker" shooting like this, the Wachowski brothers (now called siblings) It's just to show off special effects, which is a selling point, but "Alternative Dimensional Hacker" does not have this need at all.
Specific analysis of the content of the film. Scientist Fowler created the virtual world in 1937, and Fowler’s world in 1999 was actually created by the character David and his wife in the world 2024. There is a team). From the beginning of the film, Fowler already knew the truth-his reality turned out to be a virtual created by others. He decided to tell Douglas, a member of his experimental team, this shocking fact. Fowler left a note for Douglas in the virtual world in 1937, handed it to a bartender, and asked him to pass it on. After he returned to reality before he could tell Douglas, he was killed by the creator of the virtual world in 1999, David from 2024. David used Douglas' body to kill. Douglas entered the virtual world in 1937 to find clues in order to find out the truth. After a fight between Douglas and the bartender in the bar, the bartender in a frenzy told Douglas that he peeked at the letter Fowler left him. The content of the letter was actually one sentence: Our world is not real. This originally meant 1999, but the bartender misunderstood and thought it was 1937. In addition, the bartender had long suspected the weird behavior of Fowler and Douglas. In order to find out the truth, the bartender drove outside the city. He saw an unbelievable scene-the world had an end.
Douglas did not find a clue in 1937, but found something strange in reality in 1999. Fowler popped up a daughter out of thin air, trying to inherit all the business of the company he left behind, and then suddenly disappeared. When I saw it again, the real identity was a supermarket cashier. Fowler suddenly remembered what the bartender had said, and drove out of the city in a daze. As a result, as you and I had guessed, he also saw what the bartender saw.
The story could have ended here, but the director's sword went slant, another member of the experimental team, Whitney, because he couldn't stand the doubts in his heart, finally chose to enter the virtual world. In 1937, he wanted to find out. He just entered the bartender. Body. Whitney was obviously out of luck. He almost had a car accident when he arrived in 1937, and was followed by the police. Finally, he was hit and killed by a car during the confrontation with the police. At this time, the key step that determined the direction of the film appeared: Whitney, who died in the virtual world in 1937, declared his death in reality in 1999, and the consciousness of the bartender whose body was borrowed was released in 1937. , Entered the body of Whitney in 1999 and became the first person to escape from the virtual world to the next level of the world. Whitney waking up is no longer Whitney, but a bartender, more precisely, a bartender in consciousness. The bartender stood in the aisle of the computer room filled with huge servers, muttering to himself "This is where I was born", opened his arms and enjoyed the new life (although he became David's ghost in a moment). This is a classic passage in the whole film. Instead, the program in a passive position enters the body of the creator and becomes a living person, showing a spirit of extreme resistance. The Matrix did not achieve this, or it did not go here. Side to go. Seeing this, how can you say that this film is not comparable to The Matrix?
The director's creation of such a paragraph is not only used to raise the height of the film's thoughts, in fact, it is to pave the way for the final ending of the film. The heroine in the film, David's wife Natasha, who borrowed the body of a supermarket cashier to impersonate Fowler's daughter, reveals all the hidden details at this time. She told Douglas that there were hundreds of virtual worlds like them in 1999. Fowler and the others were only one of them, but they were the only virtual world that also created a virtual world. As the creators of 1999, the Davids must stop this accident immediately. This is also the reason why David entered 1999 to kill Fowler, and Natasha was in charge of the aftermath, and needed all means to get Fowler's company and destroy it. This unscrupulous even includes sex with Douglas.
When the film is here, love is again involved. Natasha has long lost love for the bloodthirsty and somewhat perverted David, but has developed a continuous love for Douglas in the virtual world. According to her, Douglas had integrity and kindness, which David did not have. But we can also think that when Douglas was created, David's wife created him according to her own ideals, and falling in love with him was also a matter of plan. David had long been aware of his wife's empathy, and the perversion was killing his wife to vent his anger, so he entered 1999 to find the wife who had just finished making love with Douglas by borrowing the body of a supermarket cashier. Natasha had anticipated that David would have such a hand, and took measures early. At this critical juncture, the detective who had been investigating Fowler's case appeared and shot and killed David, who was borrowed from Douglas. . Based on the bartender’s previous experience, we are pleased to have a foreboding the happy ending of the film: Douglas escaped from the virtual world in 1999 and reborn in 2024, becoming a real flesh and blood person. More importantly, he also got his own true love and replaced David. Live a happy life with Natasha.
You can think of this two seconds before the end of the film and the subtitles appear, but wait a minute. Based on the experience of watching movies over the years, we can also guess that foreigners don’t like a happy ending with a reunion and always have to keep some. Suspense for the sequel. Let us first recall a sentence that Douglas said. After realizing that the 1999 he was in was nothing but a virtual world, and he was just a tiny program in the virtual world, he made an incisive summary of the actions of the creator Natasha and the others: you pull the plug, I Just disappear. In the last shot of the film, Douglas and Natasha are standing on a balcony with an infinitely beautiful view of the sea. Suddenly, as if the TV was unplugged, the picture flashed and disappeared.
When watching the film itself, the truth is a little bit separated. The sense of suspense is much stronger than watching this dull thing, and the feelings it brings are of course not the same. The film's dialogue and editing techniques are excellent, which shows the screenwriting and director skills. But in the process of watching the movie, I still found a few flaws in the film, not to pick and stab, but to discuss.
In fact, it's just one sentence. Why didn't Fowler tell Douglas directly in reality? I guess the director’s explanation is that David would know his actions in 1999 at a glance, because he was the creator of 1999, and he could not grasp Fowler’s actions in 1937, because that was Fowler himself created. But I think this explanation is a bit far-fetched. First of all, if David wants to start, he can choose an earlier time, as early as when Fowler just invented the virtual world, or even when he just had this idea.
Secondly, after entering the virtual world in 1937, Fowler, Douglas and others did not hide their true identity. For example, Fowler dared to open a room in a hotel for prostitution under his own name. Didn’t they know that the bodies they used were all There are people with names in this world. Wouldn't it be a gang if you meet someone you know? Of course, it was because of their recklessness that the bartender's doubts and actions came from behind. But if the person is asked to do such an illogical thing just to make the story go on, it’s kind of like that.
Mistake three, Natasha casually finds a woman to pretend to be Fowler's daughter to take over the company, which is too natural. Even if foreigners are open-minded, it is normal that children and their parents have not been in contact for many years, but as a child to inherit the inheritance, it is necessary to have a certificate, right?
Flaw four, the bartender drove to the outskirts to relieve his doubts (I don’t know where the inspiration came from) and finally found that he was in a virtual world, but in turn, I wondered if there were so many people in the city for so many years that none of them had been out of the city. Walk around? The director did not give a convincing reason on this point.
Fifth, regarding the detective in the film, I think it is far-fetched to let David be executed in the end. You must know how difficult it is to discover and accept that your world and life are a dream from Fowler to the bartender to Douglas. In contrast, the psychological quality of the detective seems to be exceptionally good, and Natasha's words make him quick Accepting this reality and thinking more openly than others: do not disturb our world in the future. The implication is to care about whether he is true or not. I just have to have fun. It's super cool! If the role of the detective was purely prepared for the last shot, I personally think it would be more logical to let David and the bartender belong together.
Mistake six. In fact, many things in the film are not explained clearly. What puzzles me most is whether the body that every creator borrows to enter the virtual world is fixed? The processing of the film is very dramatic. Everyone is looking for someone who looks exactly like him to possess. And according to Natasha's final statement, it seems that every virtual character has a prototype in reality. For example, Fowler's prototype is Natasha's father. But in this case, I want to ask again, who can guarantee that what Fowler did when he entered 1937 was not done by Natasha's father who borrowed Fowler's body? Of course, if this is true blindly, that movie really won't be able to watch, haha.
While watching this movie, the names of other movies flashed in my mind as the plot went on: "The City of Moving Souls", "Trumen's World", "Butterfly Effect" and so on. "Moving Soul City" tells the story of aliens imprisoning a group of people on earth to conduct research by constantly changing their memories, which is slightly similar to the idea of this film. But I have watched this film, and my thoughts are not as deeply touched as I have finished watching "Alternative Dimensional Hacker". Why do you say that? Because "Moving Soul City" talked about aliens, it was a bit of self-ridicule, and the main theme of the film ended, so that the frustration before the film was finally wiped out, and the audience would eventually end watching the movie with joy. The subject of "Alternative Dimensional Hacker" is exactly the question that human philosophers have been thinking hard for thousands of years. "Am I a dream of someone else?" This is a question that everyone will wonder in their lives. In addition to the suspenseful ending of the film, I believe that after watching this film, the audience will have strong doubts about the daily life they take for granted. The film is over and thinking has just begun.
"The World of Truman" also talks about a fictitious world. Unlike "Different Dimensional Hacker", Truman is the only unaware person, and everyone else is cooperating with him in acting, while "Different Dimensional Hacker" is Everyone is actually kept in the dark. From this point of view, the director of "Alternate Dimensional Hacker" is more difficult to test than the director of "Trumen's World". The director of the door is very easy, because everyone is an insider, only Trumen does not know. It’s hard to make sense of "Alternative Dimensional Hacker" at this point.
The audience will notice that the virtual world created by each creator in the film is decades behind the time of the real world in which it is located. In the words of the film characters, this is a psychological reflection of the creator trying to change the past. Every time the creator borrows the body of a character in the virtual world, it will cause the latter to lose his memory for a short time, which reminds me of the "Butterfly Effect." The protagonist of the film influences the future by constantly returning to the past and changing some historical details. His frequent amnesia when he was a child is entirely the result of repeated return after adulthood. This segment of "Butterfly Effect" can be understood as time travel, or parallel universes. It seems that the virtual world and the real world are not related to each other in "Alternative Dimensional Hacker", but we may as well understand that every time the creator’s journey in the virtual world is his personal time travel, Fowler and David Each of the virtual worlds is a historical stage of mankind. Hundreds of virtual worlds are actually another arrangement of history. If you can understand it in this way, the film will have less sadness and a sense of mission.
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