Immersion empathy: ★★★★☆
Director: Shao Qing/Shao Qing
Country of production: China/China
Type: Animation
Year: 2019
Film length: 12min
IMDb：tt10875292
(Picture source: https://vrfilmlab.tw/movie/black-bag/)
Welcome to the VR world created by director Shao Qing.
Put on the head-mounted display and welcome to the VR world created by director Shao Qing.
Anyone who takes over the protagonist of the story – a huge black leather bag – can’t help but want to take it as his own, remove all obstacles in front of him, and run forward desperately to get rid of other competitors who also want to possess it. In front of you is a surprising and crazy world – a three-dimensional maze full of forked roads or a car chase on a weird road.
Everyone who gets a black leather bag wants to monopolize the bag and take advantage of it. (Picture source: https://vrfilmlab.tw/movie/black-bag/)
You are not the only one in the maze. These other people may run towards you from other branches, or may suddenly appear on the ceiling or the left and right walls. You are worried that they are trying to snatch your bag, but they seem to be running away, afraid of you, or completely ignoring you, showing a state of being lost for a long time, exhausted, mentally exhausted, and hurting themselves. And you don’t know the path out of the maze, so you can only instinctively move forward, turn, or climb the wall or even the ceiling, trying every path in any direction, believing that the exit is right in front of you. When you climb up the long vertical ladder with great difficulty and hand your black leather bag to the exit, the contact person returns you a grenade with the latch unplugged.
Suddenly I returned to my house, wondering how to hide the huge black leather bag. Under the bed? refrigerator? Perhaps it would be safer to leave the house. He embarked on a journey of being attacked and chased by cars again. But, at the end of the road is the top of a towering building? No matter who is holding the black leather bag, they will inevitably lose their lives in the end.
He handed over the black leather bag and received in exchange a grenade with the latch removed. (Picture source: https://vrfilmlab.tw/movie/black-bag/)
“Black Leather Bag” is 12 minutes long without a single line of dialogue, and director Shao Qing has constructed a VR space that is very different from the real world, making “Black Leather Bag” full of possibilities: perhaps it is a nightmare about fighting for a kill. , perhaps it is a flashback before death – after all, those who want to possess the black leather bag will end up eating grenades or bullets, or perhaps what is in front of them is the realization of the digital world. After all, who in China still uses paper money to compete for digital wealth in the digital world? The goods are more reasonable, or maybe Shao Qing had no intention of replicating the real world in the VR world. In “Black Leather Bag”, you can walk up, down, left and right, there are strange creatures outside the car window, and the road ends on the top floor of the building. All this is just a VR world. Of course.
Compared with this crazy and weird space in the real world, only by viewing it through a head-mounted display and being completely enveloped by this space can we explain that we are in an alien space that is very different from the real world, and can this space appear to be natural and reasonable. ; If viewed through an ordinary flat screen, compared to a “normal” movie projection space, the space inside the screen will be particularly highlighted as weird and weird.
Welcome to the amazing world of confusion and fantasy created by director Shao Qing.
