In my project, the story tells of a young man who is spending his quality time with his wife in a romantic date. He takes her to a slow dance and they both joke around with each other. Out of nowhere, the wife tells her husband that it’s time for him to go. Everywhere around the husband starts to disintegrate along with his wife. Struck with grief and misery, the husband then wakes up and realize that it was all just a virtual simulation to keep himself entertained.
When people hear the movie title “For you,” will you first think it’s a love story. It’s true that the project presented a love story, but the title goes more then what people think. It shows that it also brings about a sad concept. When the wife said, “It’s time for you to go,” it brings about a shocking twist and a bad sign. When the announcer even told that they make sure to provide a perfect world for you, it was only just a phrase that the service use.
When the film revealed that the simulation is all just part of the service, it just shows how far humanity pursues happiness and as society continues to advance, so, will people find ways to advance their entertainment.
The whole setting and theme of the film provides the ideology of escapism. Escapism is when one removes himself from reality. Instead, one distracts himself in living in his own pleasures or fantasies. There is nothing wrong though if one wishes to seek comfort and pleasure, but if there’s no control of it, it will become an addiction. The husband represents those who could not break away their addiction. In fact, escapism also comes with an emotional reason. The husband who requested this kind of simulation could not bear or handle the loss of his wife.
During the simulation, when everything disintegrates around the husband, the husband’s response was that he did not want it to end and his wife to leave him. The disintegration, along with the husband’s wife, represents the breaking of one’s addiction and the husband also represents how one who could not let go of his or her addiction. Mikey D mentioned and said in his blog about escapism that, “Addictions can be tough to break, particularly when there is an emotional component behind them. It’s not merely ‘being addicted to a fantasy,’ but the challenges of getting over the reasons why you’ve constructed the fantasy in the first place” (M., 2014).
Other people who were in the simulation may just want to have fun, but the husband’s situation was a sad case.
References:
· Allan, P. (2015, October 8). How to Snap Back to Reality when “Escapism” Becomes “Avoidance”. Retrieved from https://lifehacker.com/how-to-snap-back-to-reality-when-escapism-becomes-av-1723091630
· D, M. (2014, June 8). Escapism: Leave Your Fantasy World And Live In Reality. Retrieved from http://feelhappiness.com/escapism-leave-fantasy-world-live-reality/
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