week 8

Critical Practice

Rosetta Brooks

Dunhuang Chen

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At the beginning, a man called Cooper, a wandered young man that is trying to run from the problem at home, and traveling the world. No body knows that what happened to him and what`s the problem at home. All we know is that he has some unpleasant experience with his parents. He is avoiding them actively. At the last stop of his tripe. while in London, he meets a girl and they falling love with each other(I don`t know). The Sonja is hoping Copper to tell her what happened to him and start trying to convince Cooper to call his mother back.

And eventually we start to learn that Cooper had stayed home to care for his father who eventually died of disease. A tragic story between a father and a son. And Cooper considered his father his best friend. But that he did not want to talk to his mother. So he left the house, and began traveling around the world in a way to avoid the pain of the past.

Now, the main story begins, we know that Copper has been suffering from lost of father and a realistic situation that defines Cooper’s character. At the beginning of this story, Cooper needs money and so he goes and volunteered to be a tester for a software development company. Apparently, this company has is very special that they are running everything secretly. Soon Cooper learns that their new software has to do with Virtual Reality that is worked through a special devise at the base of neck. The implant allows the software to interact directly with the brain and simulate.

During the progresses, Cooper starts to see the real marvelous and possibilities here. The game begins with a stupid one called Bop-the-Mole, to realism unparalleled in Virtual Reality. The real magic happens when they take Cooper to a mansion and keep him in and tell him his safe word, and then let him know that it’s going to get horrible real fast. But quickly Cooper is got bored seriously. Until he witness a huge spider and a childhood friend enters the scene. And however, he sees through all that and he realizes that the hologram is unable to touch him and unable to harm him in anyway… and so Cooper continues to proceed through the simulation without much worry or concern.

Sonja arrives at the door that is a big turning point. And she is full of conspiracy theories that makes Cooper confused and starting to get stressed out. After he believes that this test could really make him harmed, Cooper begins freaking out. He is out of control. The spider gets bigger and suddenly, Cooper is stabbed in the back. He feels the pain and then wake up somehow after he is screaming a while. Nothing really happened. He decides to quite the game with extremely panic. And when he is told to walk into a specific room to allow him to exit – the nightmare ends however then we realize that they are all in his head. But then operator extract him out of the game. We are confirmed that Cooper left game for good. The game designers ask his forgiveness and allow him to head out. Cooper then went back to the home to see his mother. But his mother is acting weird . She is waiting for answer the phone from his son. Finally tit turns out he is just in another layer of the game. And we learn when Cooper’s cellphone goes off that he had only been in the game for a total of .04 seconds. The cell signal completely interrupted the game and fritted Cooper’s brain completely. And now he is dead.

Obviously, this episode has messed up audiences` and Coppers`s cognition several times. Firstly, we and Copper are in a white room and Copper plays Bop-the-Mole, the game is hyper reality to Cooper, audience thought they are in reality. Secondly, Cooper is in the office and got plug in second time. We and Cooper thought we are still in reality. Then the operator leads Copper to a old house, we all believed that we and Copper are in reality, all the environments are real. Now we Copper encounters spiders and school friend but we see nothings via monitor. Therefore those spiders and man are hyper reality to Cooper, we thought that audience are still in reality. Then shown up of Sonja and then she is fighting with Copper make Copper believes that she is reality. But we are uncertain so this is argument reality. Then Sonja disappears indicate that the Sonja is still hyper reality to Copper from audience view. We thought that we and Copper are back to reality when Copper got second floor and being extracted by operators. Then Copper is wake up in the office, that tells he never left the office and all happened before in the old house is fake. He left that company and got back to home. We believe that we and Cooper are in real reality this time. Then, he is dead in white room because of interrupting by a phone. We are finally confirmed that he never left the white room. The layers are: they staying in the White Room is in Reality, the Office part is Layer One, the creepy House is Layer Two Game 1, back to Home is Layer Three Game 2. He went into layer one first and then goes into layer two to play the first game and then comes back out into layer one, slips into layer 3 for game 2 and then dies in reality.