Today, this month's most anticipated new film "The Matrix 4: Matrix Reboot" is released in China, have you all gone to see it?
Xiaobian found that I don't know if it is because the audience has great expectations for "The Matrix 4", and the film has appeared such a bipolar word-of-mouth mentality after the release of the film at home and abroad.
Like the audience believes that "Hacker 4" is a full score of emotional works; while the disliked audiences say that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, "Hacker 4" is just a remake of the first part.
Speaking of which, the "Matrix" series can be said to be the crowning work of the "metaverse movie", and the release of this sequel will inevitably attract the huge attention of science fiction fans.
The emerging term "metaverseal cinema" has often appeared in our field of vision recently, so how much do you know about the concept of "metaverseal cinema"?
To know the definition of a "metaverse movie," we need to first understand the definition of a "metaverse." The concept of "metaverse" originated from the famous American science fiction writer Neil Stephenson's novel "Avalanche" published in 1992, and since then, many movies have appeared metaverse elements.
The English word for "metaverse" is metavalse, where the prefix meta means "after this, transcend", and the word metacosm is a combination of meta and universe. The term refers to a virtual world of numbers in which people can break through the limitations of the physical world in which we live.
From the perspective of genre films, "metaverse movies" belong to the big category of science fiction movies, and the scientific basis on which "metaverse movies" rely is the hot frontier virtual reality technology in the contemporary Internet era. In the "metaverse film", the development of virtual reality technology to the extreme constitutes the main structure of the worldview, and people are often lost between virtual and reality.
Today, Xiaobian brought five classic "meta-universe movies" for everyone, and the department did not lose to "The Matrix 4", let's take a look at it
01
Out of Control Player
Director: Sean Levy
Starring: Ryan Reynolds / Judy Comer
Douban score: 7.5
"Liberty City" is a blockbuster action-adventure game in which players can burn and loot and experience the thrill of being an outlaw.
There are also a number of NPCs in the game, who cooperate day after day with the player to react in various ways: being robbed, knocked to the ground, forced to worship the player, and so on.
Guy's worldview was completely shaken, and he also experienced what it was like to be a player by mistake.
However, the kind man did not want to kill people and set fires, so he began a strange game career of doing good deeds without leaving a name. He single-handedly influenced the ethos of the game and became a legend, with players in reality speculating about his true identity.
However, the good times did not last long, and The owner of "Liberty City", Antoine, wanted to shut it down in order to launch a new game. The electronic world on which Guy lived was about to be destroyed, and the burden of saving the world fell on his shoulders.
Meanwhile, real-world programmer and game designer Millie's work is stolen by Antoine and forced to enter the game in search of evidence. In the process, she meets the Awakened Cover and joins forces with him on an adventure to save the game world.
02
"Alien Hacker"
Director: Joseph Rusnack
Starring: Craig Bilk / Amin Müller-Starr
Douban score: 8.4
The film tells the story of Hannon Fuller, who created the virtual world, who suddenly dies, and his friend and partner Douglas Hall becomes the prime suspect, and Hall travels back and forth between reality and the virtual world in order to find out the truth.
On the 13th floor of an office building in a Los Angeles business district, Douglas Hall and Hannon Fuller created a virtual 1937s Los Angeles.
One day, Hannon Fuller returned to the hotel after a rendezvous with his lover, left a letter for someone, and rushed home to see his wife. As he lay down on his bed, he suddenly changed time and space to Los Angeles in 1999.
Douglas Hall woke up to find Hannon dead and became his prime suspect. Hall can't recall whether he was involved in the murder or not, and in order to find out the truth, he travels back and forth between reality and the virtual world of 1937, a dual life that obscures Hall's presence in the real world.
Although the film is of the same family as "The Matrix", "Hacker in Other Dimensions" takes a diametrically opposite path.
In this film, the director does not play with visual effects, but uses various thinking and wisdom to blur the boundaries between virtual and real, resulting in a huge interpretation.
03
Minority Report
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Cruise / Colin Farrell
Douban score: 7.8
The film tells the story of Washington, D.C., in 2054, where murder has disappeared as technology has evolved.
Humans can use the superpower of the future to perceive the future, the "Prophet", to detect people's criminal intentions, so before the criminal commits the crime, it has been arrested and sentenced by the police of the crime prevention organization.
John was a director of the Crime Prevention Organization, and after successfully preventing a two-person murder due to an affair through the Prophet, John vaguely felt the secret hidden in this perfect crime prevention system— minority reporting.
The system relies on three "prophets" to determine whether someone has a murderous intent together, and when disagreement arises, the case is decided on the principle of minority obedience to the majority, but in the end, if the minority is correct, it secretly keeps a minority report.
John wakes up and suddenly finds himself the target of his former colleagues, and now John's only way out is to find the minority report that proves his innocence.
04
Inception
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio / Joseph Gordon-Levitte
Douban score: 9.3
The film tells the story of a dreammaker played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who leads a team of agents played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page into other people's dreams, steals secrets from others' subconscious, and reconstructs others' dreams.
Dom Cobb is an experienced thief who is the best in his business because he can sneak into the most mentally fragile dreams of people and steal valuable secrets from the subconscious.
Cobb's rare skill made him the most coveted target of dangerous corporate espionage, but it also made him an international fugitive who lost his love.
Now Cobb has a chance to atone for his sins, and as long as he completes the last task, his life will return to its original appearance. Unlike in the past, Cobb and his team's mission this time is not to steal ideas, but to implant them. If they succeed, it's a perfect crime.
But even with meticulous and professional arrangements in advance, it was impossible to predict that the dangerous enemy already knew their movements, and only Cobb could have predicted the whereabouts of the enemy.
05
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Director: Toshi Imabari
Starring: Emi Hayashibara / Tsutomu Jiang
Douban score 9.0
Adapted from Yasutaka Tsutsui's Dream Detective, the film tells the story of a beautiful physician Atsuko Chiba, who works at a psychiatric research institute and works with the talented scientist Hirosaku Tokida to invent the "DC MINI", an instrument that can monitor and change the dreams of patients.
One day, three miniature DCs were stolen, and the dreams of the researchers involved were invaded one after another, and then seriously injured. Another identity of the beautiful medical doctor Atsuko Chiba is the dream detective "Red Hot Chili Peppers", who is able to experience dreams in sync with patients.
In order to prevent thieves from using Micro DC to commit further evil, she has to sneak into the victim's dream to find the terrorist, and a battle full of fantasy and thrilling begins...
"Red Hot Chili Peppers" is currently the most able to grasp the interlaced elements of time and space and the screen split narrative in the animation film, the whole story is the character's dream in the film is constantly transformed in reality, and the time and space are interlaced very frequently.
Whether it is the calm and composed beauty doctor in reality, or the lively and cheerful detective "Little Pepper" in the dream, they are telling two stories that seem completely unrelated at first with their own actions.
Well, this issue's recommendation ends here~
What other "metaverse movies" can you recommend, welcome to leave your own ideas in the comment area~
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