#98: That Time We Played Bandersnatch

By tortell1 5 years ago

We know this isn’t a new thing, it came out six months ago but this was a quick replacement for our original movie pick which was too long for how late we started, its Netflix’s Black Mirror interactive film Bandersnatch. written by series creator Charlie Brooker In Bandersnatch, viewers make decisions for the main character, Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) who is adapting a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure novel into a video game in 1984. Other characters include Mohan Thakur (Asim Chaudhry) and Colin Ritman (Will Poulter), both of whom work at a video game company, Butler’s father, Peter (Craig Parkinson) and Butler’s therapist, Dr. Haynes (Alice Lowe). The film is based on a planned Imagine Software video game of the same name which went unreleased after the company filed for bankruptcy. It also alludes to Lewis Carroll’s own works that feature the bandersnatch creature. A piece of science fiction and horror, Bandersnatch incorporates meta-commentary and rumination on free will Come join us for a discussion on our choices and if free will is actually a real thing or is everything already predetermined.

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