A film entitled Bandersnatch is one of the movies I recently watched and that really made me think about different things that happen in our world. It was supported by Netflix but wasn’t run at the cinema. This motion picture was written by Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade. It is starring Fionn Whitehead (who also played in Dunkirk), Will Poulter (who is also known for playing Eustace in The Chronicles of Narnia and Gally in Maze Runner series) and Craig Parkinson who is known for his role in Misfits. This movie is not like other just because you have to choose and make decision for the main character who is named Stefan Butler. So, at the bottom of the screen appears two choices and you have to select one. In that way authors make you think that you can control the end of the movie. This is quite true, because you can get more than 2 or 3 different endings.
Like I said previously the main character is Stefan who is adapting a fantasy novel called Bandersnatch into a video game. The point of the novel and the game are the same, you chose what path your character will go and what actions will he have to perform. He produces the game for video game company Tuckersoft which employs one of the most famous game creators of that time Colin Ritman. When he comes to their office, he is given two choices to work for them and develop the game with their crew or to do that at home. If the viewer clicks on the first choice, Colin says that it is the wrong path and when the game is launched it doesn’t gain so much success as Stefan expected and the movie returns at the part of selecting between these two options. So basically, you are forced to choose the second option and that happens a lot through the movie. At some questions you are even forced to choose the option you don’t want because you understand that this will not lead to a happy end for Stefan. Furthermore, at some of them you have just one possibility. So, even if you choose to not ask Colin for help, to go to Stefan’s psychologist or to not kill his dad, at some point you have to do that because the movie returns you back at the last question.
I don’t really want to spoiler all the plot of this movie, but one of my favorite parts was when Stefan goes at the Colin’s house and Colin talks to him about how people are trapped in a maze of government. He says that the government monitors people, they pay people to pretend to be your relatives and they put drugs in your food and they film you. He also mentions that there is a message in every game. Colin talked about PAC-Man and that PAC stands for Program and Control. So, the yellow character has no free will, he is trapped in a system and all he can do is consume, he's pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head, and even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze he just comes right back in the other side. People think it's a happy game but it is the opposite.
This movie was inspired by lots of sources, like poems of Lewis Carroll and also his best-known novel Alice in Wonderland. Therefore, we are able to see lots of connections, links and character that look alike both in the movie and in the novel. Producers also took some ideas from a team that worked at Imagine Software who really made a game named Bandersnatch but unfortunately, they never launched it.
Bandersnatch combines lots of genres like horror, science fiction, comedy and 1980s vibes which really made me like this movie. The meaning of this film is that we will never be able to choose and to control our or even others path because we are different and life is unpredictable.
In a nutshell, those who like SF movies and these ones which imply different mind-blowing turnings will totally like this movie.
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