Colin Ritman: There's messages in every game. Like Pac-Man. Do you know what "Pac" stands for? P-A-C: program and control. He's Program and Control Man. The whole thing's a metaphor. He thinks he's got free will, but really he's trapped in a maze, in a system. All he can do is consume, he's pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head and even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze, what happens? He comes right back in the other side. People think it's a happy game. It's not a happy game, it's a fucking nightmare world and the worst thing is, it's real and we live in it. It's all code. If you listen closely, you can hear the numbers. There's a cosmic flowchart that dictates where you can and where you can't go. I've given you the knowledge. I've set you free. Do you understand?
Dr. Haynes: The past is immutable, Stefan. No matter how painful it is, we can't change things. We can't choose differently with hindsight. We all have to learn to accept that.
Stefan Butler: I've actually had a bit of breakthrough with the game. I think I'd got bogged down before, but now I can see.

Dr. Haynes: So you finally finished it?

Stefan Butler: Finished, delivered, everything. I'd been trying to give the player too much choice. So I just went back and stripped loads out. And now they've only got the illusion of free will, but really, I decide the ending.

Dr. Haynes: And is it a happy ending?

Stefan Butler: I think so.
Mohan Thakur: There's messages in every game. Like Pac-Man. Do you know what PAC stands for? P-A-C: "program and control." He's Program and Control Man the whole things a metaphor, he thinks he's got free will but really he's trapped in a maze, in a system, all he can do is consume, he's pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head, and even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze, what happens? He comes right back in the other side. People think it's a happy game, it's not a happy game, it's a fucking nightmare world and the worst thing is it's real and we live in it. It's all code. If you listen closely, you can hear the numbers. There's a cosmic flowchart that dictates where you can and where you can't go. I've given you the knowledge. I've set you free. Do you understand?

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Bailey 2022-03-30 09:01:04

After watching the 90-minute version, it feels like a simulation game. Different endings are chosen. At first glance, I feel that there should be at least 50 endings. After reading it, I felt that the content was too much, complicated, and not easy to understand. Later, I found that there was a 312-minute full version, no wonder. But I don't know where to find the full version.
Deonte 2021-12-02 08:01:30

After watching Netflix, there is a feeling of speechlessness. It can be said that it is the best-watching and most shocking episode of "Black Mirror". The audience blends into the plot in a novel form of choice. You think you are playing God and teasing others, but in the end you find that you have become the person who is satirized in the film. The "White Bear" symbol and the cover mural of "Metal Head" appeared many times, and even in the second half of the movie, I felt that I had fallen into the cycle of evil like "White Bear" and couldn't escape. I have personally experienced a "parallel world" in the selection again and again.