"You used to work at Google?"

After filming today's scene, Ding Cheng chatted with the director, only to know that this young man used to be an employee of an Internet giant?

"It's because I work in the advertising department that I got this inspiration. "I've always been interested in telling original, emotional, or thrilling stories in ways that people don't expect, which has led me to use technology as a medium to tell stories," Anish laughs. ”

"Hitchcock once said that the essence of cinema is voyeurism, and everyone loves voyeurism, which is our nature. ”

"For example, the back window of his classic work is a very typical voyeur story. And tabletop movies are undoubtedly a new variant of the genre. It's just that with the application and development of the Internet, the perspective of replacing the audience's participation in voyeurism has evolved from telephoto lenses and telescopes to personal social software and miniature cameras. ”

Ding Cheng likes to chat with this young man very much, and he can always get a lot of whimsy in him, which is not found in his peers in China at all.

In today's world, when communication between people is increasingly dependent on social software, computers and mobile phones not only take over our daily life, but also silently record the trajectory of life, and even hide the entrance to another truth, or another self.

In this kind of film, which is dominated by voyeurism, the audience's voyeuristic desire and sense of morality need to be satisfied at the same time. The method adopted in the "Unfriend" series is to put the spied protagonist with the original sin of their own negligence, put the viewer in a moral high position, and dissolve the injustice of their own voyeurism from the perspective of judgment.

And at this point, the angle of entry chosen by the network mystery is smarter.

"In the latest survey conducted by our national cybersecurity company, 55% of parents have indeed snooped on their children's privacy, which is the biggest selling point. ”

Anish confidently said: "Parents in the age of the Internet feel that it is normal to go to their children's homepage to see what they are up to. They do this to avoid awkwardness when talking to their children, which is the only way they can understand their children's lives. ”

Ding Cheng appreciates this kind of market positioning, which can undoubtedly make most of the audience who are parents empathize, and even for Chinese audiences who are not good at expressing emotions directly in intimate relationships, the proportion of this part of psychological identification may be higher.

Especially the dialog boxes that frequently appear in the film, it seems that there are so many scenes that they steal the scene, but who hasn't experienced it?

Those moments when a heart turns a thousand times, a thought comes and goes, a reply is written and deleted, and finally only sends a simple sentence You are okay?

The most frequent keyboard tapping sound becomes a killer feature to set off the atmosphere and create emotions, and the movement of the cursor guides the audience's thoughts: you see, there seems to be a cat in this picture......

With these details, even if the plot is reversed and reversed, the audience will not feel abrupt.

Because we live in screens, these electronic images that carry emotions and meanings are all too familiar to modern people who face computers, mobile phones, and billboards every day.

Ding Cheng looked at the editors who were always working hard next to him, there were originally only two, but after his own investment, he recruited five more, even if everyone worked together, they had to work overtime and stay up late every day.

This is the most relaxing movie he has ever made, as the leading actor, he actually finished all the scenes in ten days!

The rest is all a variety of information, such as news site headlines, trending videos, messaging conversations between the protagonist and other people, and email exchanges.

Every line that appears in the film is not put up casually, and the two screenwriters wrote four or five hundred pages of side stories to establish the world of this film.

There are hundreds of friends on social networks, but no one is willing to have lunch with you in reality;

The daughter you thought was intimate has actually embarked on an unexpected life trajectory;

The partner you believed in deceived you from the beginning......

It seems to reflect the results of the invasion of life by the Internet: online and offline information asymmetry, personality disunity, and all kinds of online violence;

Live broadcasts, keyboard warriors, and Internet fraud are the heroes who push the movie to a climax step by step.

Of course, the director's intention is not to blindly accuse, but to reflect: has network technology changed human nature, or has it amplified human nature?

As the plot develops, the audience discovers that searching to save people and harm people, and harm people and save people......

Attitudes towards the internet have also wavered with reversals and reversals.

People who anonymously scold the street on the Internet may not be a big mouth gossiping behind people's backs in real life. Behind the online fraud, there must be greedy faces.

The fact that the morality and ethics that people have established for thousands of years collapse in an instant in the computer network does not mean that the network is false, but that the ethical outline may not be as true as imagined.

Although the scene is finished, Ding Cheng likes this role very much, far less than the heroes he played before, but as an ordinary person, he also has the determination and ability to save his relatives.

A Chinese single engineer father, after his wife died of illness many years ago, his daughter became all the spiritual sustenance. Behind this strong man, the most real anxiety in the emotions after the disappearance of his daughter was livestreamed, which touched the hearts of the audience alive.

In addition to empathy, emotional resonance catalyzes the power of authenticity. In fact, in addition to anxiety, the male protagonist has always had great faith in his daughter's life, and his perseverance in the use of Internet big data has allowed him to re-enter another opportunity to explore the spiritual life of his loved ones.

During the period, I saw the girl's confusion and confusion, the estrangement from herself, and the longing for freedom, but the persistence based on faith was overwhelmed by the cold ending again and again.

When the female villain informs her daughter that she is dead, she sees the desperation through the camera. Under the pressure, the father did not forget to study the clues, and after peeling back the layers of social media, he finally let his daughter die and come back to life, and the family finally ended in a relatively happy ending.

But behind the rescue of the girl lies another tragedy, that is, the lack of education for children in single-parent families. The high divorce rate in the UK has not only improved the freedom of parents, but also changed the trajectory of children's growth.

The years of emotional estrangement between father and daughter deepened the daughter's escape from reality and dependence on the Internet, and the policewoman's doting on her son connived at his murder, and the mother and son walked together towards the abyss of no return.

During this time, I chatted with Liu Mengyun and deeply understood the pressure from Chinese families. Asians account for a large proportion of the new wave of immigration, and the impact of multiculturalism is especially evident in many Asian families in the Western liberal ecosystem.

It includes the innovation of education, the reconstruction of family affection, and the integration of lifestyles......

For Asian-American families, whose core concept is to respect the elders and inferiority, it is difficult to imagine how difficult it is to survive and sustain in a complex and diverse new context.

I can't help but sigh,

It's not easy to live anywhere!