Continued from Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (October 19, 2018 - March 12, 2019) http://tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook41.blogspot.com/

Photo by JR Dalisay / April 21, 2017

Friday, January 28, 2022

Watched all eight episodes of Taiwan's 2020 Futmalls.com. This movie has three stories, about despondent characters who find solutions to their problems via a mysterious website called futmalls.com that exists only in the future.  

In "Best-selling writer" a writer who cannot handle rejection steals another writer's future through the mysterious website futmalls.com (three episodes).

In "No chance to grow up" a mother copes with the loss of her young son by trying a bottle of eye drops called Artificial Tears from futmalls.com that enables her to see her son grow up on a different plane (two episodes).

In "Air doll & Internet celebrity kidnappings" a bug-collecting nerd orders from futmalls.com a doll that, when soaked in water, transforms into the image of a female livestream host willing to be intimate with him (three episodes).

In the meantime there is the constant presence of the members of the detective and investigative team, who do not become exempt from the clutches of futmalls.com.

The second story is the most heart-wrenching and the most insightful, though it is told in only two episodes.

The three stories are cleverly intertwined, and illustrate that we are haunted not by our past but by our future, and by loved ones who exist in parallel universes. 

Welcome to the Taiwanese Twilight Zone, but there is a B-grade mentality twist at the very end, and the movie is cut off abruptly, leaving a few loose threads untied.


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