"Out of Control Player" movie review: "Don't live too ordinary, live great." ”

Human languages deceive people, but the 0s and 1s in the program don't. --Programmer keys "Runaway Player"

Today is May 7, 2022, the seventh day of the fourth lunar month, the LeJiao lock screen movie calendar brings you a sci-fi action comedy movie "Out of Control Player".

This is a soft sci-fi comedy that combines the "Ready Player One" framework and the core of "Truman's World". The movie tells a game that is popular all over the Internet, in which "Gai" is an ordinary NPC in this game "Liberty City". He's a bank cashier, dressed in blue, doing the same job over and over again every day, saying the same lines, "Don't have a good day, have agreat day" (a mantra for the characters, meaning "don't live too ordinary, live great", which is the core of the film), executing the same code, just like other NPCs, and so on. But these NPCs actually have their own minds, but they have not been activated at the beginning, until the appearance of a heroine Millie has changed everything.

In the real world, Millie and her boyfriend keyboard created a game called "Free Life", the two have completed all the game writing, is preparing to release, was discovered by the traitor Anthony, snatched the game, and greatly deleted, turning the ordinary, harmonious sandbox game into a violent, player-killing game (reference to the game "GTA"). The game is set to put on a pair of glasses after the player enters the game to display the game character information. Millie quit the company after being robbed of the game and registered an account for the new game, hoping to retrieve the game code that belonged to them before, make it public, and expose Anthony.

One day, Millie logs into the game as usual and encounters NPC Cover. The moment the two met, Gai's heart was moved, and his code was infinitely extended, and it evolved into a human mind. The next day, Guy sees Millie again while at the bank, so he kills a player on a mission and robs him of his glasses. After putting on his glasses, he saw a very different world, like entering a "game". Guy was stunned, and then he began to track millie's tracks. Gai easily finds Millie, who is completing the mission, and Millie mistakes Guy for a cute new player, saying that Gai's level is too low, and wait until level 100 to come back to her.

After learning how to upgrade, Guy chose the slowest way to do good and help "other NPCs" in this war-torn world. As a result, there is a strange player in the game, wearing NPC costumes, not doing tasks, specially helping grandma cross the road, and other players who kill every day can see the heart without waves? So Gai quickly became an Internet celebrity, everyone was discussing who he was, and gave him the title of "Little Brother in Blue".

Through Guy's "accumulation of virtue and good deeds" and the length of time spent online throughout the day, he finally reaches level 100 and meets Millie again in a building. Millie finds a backup of the game with the help of a keyboard, but her whereabouts are also discovered by Anthony. In order to preserve his wealth and reputation, Anthony must not let Millie just take the backup away, so he summons a bunch of NPCs to stop her. Just when Millie was outnumbered, there was a loud noise in the sky, and the cover flew in through the window with a small mo, which was not too handsome. The two were talking and wrestling with the NPCs, and on the remotely controlled keyboard, they noticed that no player was with Millie at all, but Millie was still talking, and he realized: Cover, it's an NPC! But it's not just a simple NPC, it's a thoughtful, conscious artificial intelligence. In the game, Guy and Millie can only retreat with two fists and four hands. The failure of this operation also brought Anthony to the attention of Millie and the keyboard, and the battle was on the verge of breaking out.

In order to help his sweetheart, Guy went alone to steal the backup, and as a result, he met the building guard, and Gai wanted to fight with him, but because of Gai's super popularity in the real world, this guard was actually his fan. It was really nowhere to step on the iron shoes, it took no effort at all, and Gai got the backup so vaguely. Guy asks Millie out, gives her the backup, and confesses to Millie. The scene of an NPC and a player kissing in the game cannot be said to be rare, it can only be said to be unheard of.

Just as Millie wants to meet under the cover line, the keyboard tells Millie the truth. Millie couldn't believe it at first, "What' the heck?" The old lady actually got along with npCs? "And then it turned unbelievable because it was their code that created this interesting AI." In the game, Millie and Guy successfully discover that Millie and Keyboard, with the help of Guy's friend Buddy, are in the sea of Liberty City. This forbidden place for players to enter turned out to be hiding ulterior motives. So they organized a full game of NPCs, and after an inspiring speech, they headed for the sea.

Anthony learned that the game backup was stolen, enraged, and began to do whatever it took, he first shut down the game server, did not let the players who had not yet been online, and then created many earthquakes, blocking the progress of the cover, and released the killing machine "Big Guy" who looked exactly like the cover to kill the cover. The two fought for a long time, and they could not defeat the big guy, and he put his glasses on the big guy's face. The big guy with glasses instantly let go of himself and became friends with Cover. Anthony finally breaks down, he takes an axe and destroys everything, the game begins to go down, and Millie is forced to go offline. Cover receives Millie and keyboards in the game Free Life at the last minute, and Anthony's evil deeds are also made public.

Although the plot of this movie is slightly old-fashioned, the same superhero, facial villain. However, it is ingenious that it moves the battlefield to the game like Ready Player One, which greatly reduces the bug, because there is no impossible in the game, and at the same time, from the perspective of the character cover, it unfolds a game character who thinks that his life is moist, but in fact he is only controlled by people, which is very similar to the movie "Truman's World". This poses a pointed question to the audience: "If life deceives you...".

The answer given by the film is: "Don't have a good day, have agreat day", which can be translated as "don't live too ordinary, live great", or "don't care what the future holds, cherish the present, and everything in front of you". Isn't this exactly what the classic line in Truman's World is "In case I don't see you, goodafternoon good evening and good night (in case I don't see you again, I'll always greet you)"?

Life is like a game, everyone brushes the wild, makes copies, fights bosses, and assembles equipment, but remember that the thrill of winning the game is only temporary, winning life is permanent, you and I are the "out of control player" in our respective games.