"Avalon" and "Internet Murder Game"-Wandering between Virtual and Reality

Maurine 2022-01-17 08:02:43

When I was in college, I watched a movie and watched it twice before I really understood it.
"Avalon" gave me an in-depth thinking about virtual and reality. What is true? What is fake? Maybe as it says in "lie to me": if you believe it, it is true; if you don't believe it, it is false.
Let's talk about this movie again.

After watching this, "The Matrix" can only be reduced to a Hollywood commercial blockbuster. The theme of online killing games is still Oshii's consistent "existence" and "reality", a story that is both real and illusory, a bit like Matrix.

Oshii's movie is still very cool and deep. Because he didn't want to make it clear at the beginning, he deliberately left room for everyone to think. The real world in the film is dark and black and white, and the pedestrians are still. At the end of the film, the real level of the game entered by the heroine is brightly colored, pedestrians and vehicles are moving, and chants are recited in the church, which is more like the real world. At the same time, her dog that disappeared in the original real world also reappeared in the real level of the game. Is the original real world the virtual game world?

Seeing this, I can't help thinking like this. When the heroine arsh (ash) meets the hero murphy (dream god), murphy decides to prove to the beloved woman what the real world is. When Murphy was hit by Arsh's bullet and fell, blood flowed out. Seeing this, some people said that this is the real world. However, after a while, Murphy's body turned into fragments and disappeared just like in the game. Which is virtual and which is reality?



Another thing to mention is ghost, the goddess of fate that appears in the game, she is the key to the player's promotion from s-level to sa-level. The hostess just entered the real level after knocking down the ghost. After the last murphyxiaoshi, gost appeared again. Arsh raised his gun and shot her again. . . . . .

The film stopped here abruptly. Is it the next level to wait for the hostess? All this may still stay in the game.

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Extended Reading
  • Hans 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    This piece is definitely an underrated work! The whole film is full of metaphors, hints, and clues. Can the game-like virtual life and the self-contradiction between reality and illusion really be seen? Or is it that these two worlds are all fake at all? Murphy's blood and his disappearance, where did Ash go? And the transition between the two eras in Poland, Oshii Mamoru, you explained it to me! Although this movie is obscure, it must be said-he is cool!

  • Ernestina 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    43 Confused is to make you confused~

Avalon quotes

  • Ash: You're not ready yet for class A, you still have a lot of work to do in class C and B.

  • Bishop: what do you think is the best, a game you think you can finish, but never do, or a game that seems impossible to win, but isn't?