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- 6 de Abr, 2014
I think Episode 7 is a good example of a twist story where knowing the twist actually makes the story less enjoyable. A good twist should make a story almost better on a second watch, because it completely redefines everything that happens, adds new significance to several events, and makes every moment of foreshadowing hit way harder.
Fight Club is a good example of this. Even if you already know the twist going in, the narrative of the movie hooks you in hard enough that you can pretty easily forget, but if you are thinking about it, the movie almost has an entirely new secondary story going on, and you get a fun little mystery to solve on how everything is actually happening and what the other characters are seeing when the narrator is unreliable.
Episode 7 doesn't change much at all on a second viewing except that you know everything "Abel" says is a red herring and all of this is fake and will lead to a massive crashout. But it doesn't change the context because the characters all fully believe everything that's happening, it doesn't change the character motivations, all if changes is that there's no longer any sense of tension because we all know the adventure is fake, and the only important stuff is how everyone reacts to it afterwards.
Fight Club is a good example of this. Even if you already know the twist going in, the narrative of the movie hooks you in hard enough that you can pretty easily forget, but if you are thinking about it, the movie almost has an entirely new secondary story going on, and you get a fun little mystery to solve on how everything is actually happening and what the other characters are seeing when the narrator is unreliable.
Episode 7 doesn't change much at all on a second viewing except that you know everything "Abel" says is a red herring and all of this is fake and will lead to a massive crashout. But it doesn't change the context because the characters all fully believe everything that's happening, it doesn't change the character motivations, all if changes is that there's no longer any sense of tension because we all know the adventure is fake, and the only important stuff is how everyone reacts to it afterwards.
