kaioduartycost, 23 января 2019 г., 7:51
Year: 2018 (4Q08) Original Title: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Directed by: David Slade Rating: (Good) One of the most talked about and somewhat publicized issues at the end of 2018 was undoubtedly the movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, this is the first interactive movie developed by Netflix itself, an experience that closes with a golden key one of the best years of the company since has assumed not as distributor but as producer and innovator of content. The concept is not exactly the latest: Bandersnatch drinks at the source of a video game style popular in Japan, the visual novels. Some examples of games of this highly successful style include Steins; Gate, which has become a popular and worshiped anime, as well as Fate / Stay Night and Clannad. The same concept pervades the games known as point-and-click, works in which the player is basically a spectator of the story, but is responsible for the direction he takes according to the decisions he chooses (as in visual novels). The games of the extinct Telltale, like The Walking Dead, are the main reference in this universe, that counts on a rather immersive tone of game. However, taking this model to a movie within the most popular entertainment platform of the moment was a bold and accurate shot of Netflix. Bandersnatch instigates curiosity and leaves the spectator anxious for the consequences of his decisions. Already the name of the film is based on the character of Lewis Carroll, present in the universe of Alice In Wonderland, a creature that lives in the world on the other side of the mirror (there are references to this in the plot). The plot is quite simple, though. Set in the '80s, we're introduced to Stefan, an electronically cracked boy and aspiring developer. He is working on a project called Bandersnatch, based on a book of the same name whose central point is the existence of several distinct and simultaneous realities, in which the reader decides the paths of the characters according to their choices. The idea of Stefan is to perfectly reproduce the concept of the book in his game, in which the player / spectator can have access to countless different ways and ends according to the decisions that take, always bearing the consequences. Producing the game, however, proves to be a much more difficult task than the boy imagines. Just before the first five minutes, we are forced to choose what Stefan will eat in the cafe, for example. And decisions are becoming more and more constant - sometimes even leading to early and unusual endings. In this regard, the mechanics of Bandersnatch works perfectly. It is impossible to settle for a single final and not to watch / play, especially knowing that there are at least five conclusive endings already proven, in addition to the ''abrupt'' finals. As we are always faced with two choices - and their consequences may or may not cross with the others -, the film awakens the desire to discover what is behind each of them and how we can find the other endings. It's very clear Netflix's commitment to building a really engaging movie / game with a very competent direction. As a pilot of a new product that the company certainly tends to exploit, Bandersnatch is assertive and, as already proven, has generated strong uproar and public support. The eighteenth-century ambience of the film is also faithfully reproduced. However, going beyond the proposed mechanics, the film leaves to be desired in the plotting itself, uncharismatic and even creative, appealing to some clichés. There is the essence of Black Mirror in the futuristic and chaotic issue that the series proposes, but in the case of Bandersnatch, it lacks the emotional appeal present in many of the episodes of the saga. It's hard to really care about Stefan and the other characters, and even the sense of distress - a constant in the series - is shallow. Still, Bandersnatch is a very interesting experience and certainly a must-have for Netflix, which should yield other movies and even series following this model, probably with a higher degree of maturity and certainly even more engaging. Source: www.netflix.com/title/80988062
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