The fallen fisherman joins forces with the beautiful ex-wife to murder and seek wealth, a typical black crime film begins, but there are always some special and strange things lurking, and those wrongs are becoming more and more rampant, until the situation is reversed and the worldview is subverted.
What is more special about this movie is that I watched it twice, the first time I paid attention to the conspiracy of Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, and I was naturally surprised to see the back, so the second time I also naturally went to find the abnormal clues of the ambush.
Mouse-dragging camera movement, vertical overlooking the dock and seascape, frigate birds infested, voiceovers that do not belong to the island, there are several forms of fishing games, the tuna named Justice, who makes Baker crazy, he has a heart with his son thousands of miles away...
If you're like me, you'll probably slap your thigh and scold yourself for being stupid: it's so obvious! Why didn't I guess it the first time I saw it?
It's like Baker asking an old fellow: How long have I been on the island? The other party looked confused: I can't remember, it seems that we have been here all along. But even if it was already so weird, the man's most whimsical brain would not doubt for even a second: whether I was living in a piece of memory.
This blindness can be seen as a revelation. The facts are in front of you, but they are habitually ignored. People are always accustomed to accepting everything that exists without thinking, so the truth of the world in our eyes is always fragile, think about how often the arguments of "the three views are subverted" and "opening the door to the new world" are in this era.
After awakening, Baker experienced a period of decadence, the pain of "everyone is drunk and I wake up alone", and the sudden realization in "Truman's World" that "everyone is watching me drunk" is almost indistinguishable, a kind of emptiness in which the meaning of his life in the first half of his life is instantly withdrawn.
Regarding the self-discovery and realization of virtual characters, science fiction films in Europe and the United States have become a small category of their own, and the famous "Thirteen Degrees of Murder" and "Electronic World Battle" have similar bridges. A variety of technological illusions are ultimately used to aid the discussion of human nature.
For example, when a virtual character has a complete sense of self, can he be considered a person in the true sense of the word? And, as viewers, we can't be sure that we are not in another virtual time and space. Such almost unfounded thinking inevitably makes people's heads swell and their backs cold.
Fortunately, Baker was not crushed by this kind of thinking, and after breaking free from the collapse, he found that there was still room for him to show his skills under the rules of the Creator, and he could control the direction of the story, pursue the long-lost dignity, and even save the Creator's life.
This story, which unveils the tragic face step by step, unexpectedly ushers in redemption at the end. The terrified teenager resurrects his father with technology, and the companionship and comfort brought by the virtual father is not only virtual, he can also fight for the justice that his son desires like the father who loves the teenager in reality.
This is not a different kind of inspiration. Are we real or virtual? It doesn't matter at all. Even as a creature, a copy, a set of code, as long as he wants, a person's fate is ultimately firmly in his own hands.