This film reminds me of the classic film "Deadly ID", which exists in a fictional town in the brain of a madman. In this film, it becomes an island in a juvenile game program.
About halfway through, I doubted the reality of his world, because all the people Dill came into contact with had stories about him. Everything seems to have only one story, and dill is the protagonist of this story. This is very similar to role-playing in games or movies.
On this island, every day is sunny, and the protagonist's task is to catch the legendary tuna. The people on the island provide him with assistance, tools, alcohol, and sensuality to reawaken his adrenaline and dopamine in his brain when he loses motivation and purpose.
With repeated failures, the goal of the game has changed. It is no longer simple fishing, but murder under the cover of fishing, and the big fish has been exchanged for an astonishing amount of cash.
Even so, Dill, who has always been pure-hearted and lived by, is still unmoved, even in the face of the temptation of his ex-wife Karen in the game.
At this time, the designer of the game can only inject the biggest motivation into the game, that is, the relationship between father and son. In the game, the teenager takes his own thoughts of his father and hatred for his stepfather as the prototype, and constructs new rules of the game in the game, from the temptation of the big fish to the return of love, to killing the stepfather to save the mother, and finally to the reunion of father and son ending. The motives changed again and again, and gradually penetrated from the surface to the depths of the soul of the protagonist Dill, and the seemingly happy and leisurely island, the simple and peaceful fishing game, also became bloody and unpredictable.
Beneath the surface of modern people's greed, violence, and indifference is the spiritual core of countless souls scarred, the mother suffered from family injuries, and the father's wounds left in the war that cannot be healed. The film sets this happy, sunny and lonely island as a paradise for the soul to exile itself, and a refuge for the gray life of teenagers. The storm on the island is the cry of the soul, and the sunshine on the island is a short and beautiful healing time...
The father who died in action lives in the memory of the teenager. He is transformed into a fisherman who always embraces impulses and survives tenaciously, and is approaching the core of the teenager's game program step by step. In this blue sea and blue sky, the beautiful image of the boy's father's memory is realized. The director uses this rather peculiar story and the narrative method of taking care of virtual reality and human nature to show us why human beings are immersed in the game, and the image in the game is more or less suppressed by reality Projection of personality. Things that cannot be realized in reality will come back again through games, through virtual reality, through imagination, and through dreams, just like in hallucinations, the boy and his father are reunited.
At the end of "Deadly ID", the lunatic who was supposed to be cured reappears in his terrifying strange personality, and becomes the ultimate murderer of a series of personalities. The movie ends in a silent and grotesque death. In this film, the image of the father has been running through the mind of the teenager who set up the virtual game, becoming the source of his strength to escape from reality and commit murder. The teenager is inspired by the father in his memory, the protagonist of the game he designed himself, to become the killer that ends the tragedy, but also the murderer of another tragedy, and the film ends in the hallucination of the teenager. The difference is that the same killing is no longer terrifying and bizarre, but has legitimacy and resistance. It just returns the hard-to-find justice, just like letting the big fish take away the terrifying stepfather. Just like ending the trembling storm around this lonely island, no matter what the realistic price is, it is worth it for the reunion of father and son to usher in this beautiful and precious moment of tranquility. While maintaining the consistent meaning of the game to save the helpless reality, the director also devotes more utopian colors to this gentle dreamland, which is opposite to the cruel reality.
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