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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is fun, but doesn’t quite work as a movie or a game

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is fun, but doesn’t quite work as a movie or a game

6 years ago
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https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/28/18159087/netflix-black-mirror-bandersnatch-interactive-film-game

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is a new kind of experiment from Netflix. It’s billed as the company’s first real foray into adult-oriented “interactive films” — Choose Your Own Adventure-style programming that ask viewers to decide what will happen next. With choices popping up at the bottom of the screen that allow the viewer to decide what the main character will do next, Bandersnatch is caught somewhere between a video game and a movie without ever committing to one direction.

The film, set in 1984, follows Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), a 19-year-old computer programmer who’s obsessed with adapting his favorite book into a video game. That book is a Choose Your Own Adventure-style adventure novel he found among his late mother’s possessions called Bandersnatch, and Stefan wants his game to feature just as many choices as the novel it’s based on.