Excellent low-cost science fiction film

Amparo 2022-09-20 18:32:49

The theme of this film is actually very simple. It is the two sides of technology. It warns people to be cautious in the use of technology. This is also the theme of many classic science fiction novels. The fictitious future technology in this film is to make people get a brand new virtual experience in a short period of time by implanting the memory written by the program.

The protagonist’s father is the inventor of the technology in the film, and the protagonist, in order to save his younger brother, went against his father’s wishes and founded a company with imperfect technology and introduced capital to accelerate research and development. The hostess believes that technology is to be used, and technology can help her realize her desire to save her brother. The image of a partner symbolizes capital. The profit-seeking nature of capital makes the company's development less and less controlled by the protagonist, and directly leads to the emergence of less humane virtual imprisonment. I think virtual imprisonment is humane and inhumane. I think it is different. I will not discuss it here, but the director is obviously negative. The performance of the female protagonist’s imprisonment can be clearly seen. It is indeed too painful compared to ordinary prisons. Up.

The virtual imprisonment experienced by the heroine is still an unfinished sample. After the final withdrawal failure, the heroine's consciousness escaped from the preset script and transformed into a state similar to dreaming but experiencing a particularly real experience. In the dream, the heroine experienced the world where their technology was completely put into the market by the partners. The company made a lot of money, but the original purpose of treating the younger brother was completely unconcerned, and the last attempt was completely failed. All these allow female subjects to see the evil consequences that may be brought about by the use of technology by capital. The dream is fabricated by the heroine's own subconscious, which means that the heroine always understands or is worried that her own willful behavior may bring bad results deep in her heart. After waking up from the dream, the heroine found that Danny was indeed dead. Even if he could dream that he was still alive, it could not change the reality. The technology was far from mature, and launching the product would only bring more tragedies, so she determined to withdraw the patent. At this point, the heroine has completed the transformation of her concept and understood her father's concerns. She needs to be cautious in the use of technology, and it is the social responsibility of the scientist to control how the new technology is used correctly.

In the end, the meeting with the partner reinforces this point of view. In order to make the product successful, the partner would not hesitate to give her eye drops and "kidnap" her for experimentation. If technology falls into the hands of such people, it will inevitably bring only disasters.

Generally speaking, as a low-cost science fiction movie, I think it is well shot. Naturally, there is no entertainment film in the plot, but the beginning and the transition are well controlled, and the theme is also in place. It is not the same type of film as "Inception" at all, and there is nothing to compare.

*The title is obviously a translation from Hong Kong and Taiwan, so stupid that I don’t know how to evaluate it. The literal translation should be similar to "Experiencing Another Life", which is also the name of the company in the film.
* I wonder why I didn’t see the promotion at all. It's an Australian movie.
*Before the heroine woke up, the partner in the hospital said that her brother was "brain dead". I think it was a screenwriter's mistake. I should say "vegetative". The former is really dead, while the latter still has brain activity. , Otherwise the hostess will not detect any reaction when she puts eye drops on her younger brother.
*In terms of details, the injection of eye drops into the nano-machine is a bit fake, and the EEG monitoring equipment has been simplified too unremarkable, but they are only minor flaws.

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  • Board Member: Now, this technology... We've read the literature, classification is proving difficult. Can you tell us how it differs from other controlled substances?

    Ren Amari: To begin with, it's not a drug. It's...

    Board Member: Biological software. You program new memories.

    Ren Amari: We create experiences. Indistinguishable from the real thing. As far as the brain is concerned, fantasy and reality are chemically identical.

  • Board Member: So there are risks.

    Ren Amari: Abuse of any substance is risky. Your brain is already firing billions of neurons a second. We're just giving them a script to follow. The software builds from fragments of your subconscious. It becomes part of you like any other memory. We tell you the story of a day, one day, where everything happens just the way it should. Perfect.

    Board Member: No chance of it lasting any longer?

    Ren Amari: None whatsoever.