I don't know.Īnyway, like I said, I know this is really late to the party. awkward umbrella metaphor for the concept of "not being depressed". not be depressed? Memories of what it was like not being depressed the hopes and dreams and joys you used to have? Or maybe he represents others people who aren't depressed, who are trying to help YOU escape? Maybe he's all of those, like a big, general. being content, enjoying the simple things, freedom, and in particular, freedom from the "prison". what is Salvador supposed to represent? His themes seem to be things like. ![]() If you didn't catch that, the "escape" is the elevator ride, and the "component" is the elevator controls. So I guess I've unintentionally transitioned to talking about the game already. Not under your own power, at least your going to need some kind of outside help. ![]() Tragically, you can't actualize your "escape" without this "component", but you can't reach this "component" while you're still imprisoned. You can have everything else you need to get yourself out, but in the end it's all worthless because you don't have the one component necessary to begin the journey. when your depressed, people can tell you what will make it better. It seems like your contradicting yourself, and yet I can't think of any other way of saying what (I think) you're trying to say. But whatever my experience is worth, I find this interesting. I've been diagnosed as such, but it's always been. I'm reluctant to say I have experience with depression. Listening to all the bullshit drivel those "it gets better" people throw at you. 17 days old, but I only just now watched this game, and for one, I really just feel a desire to discuss it, and two, there's something interesting about your post I want to mention regardless. You WILL experience horrible things in your life but your ultimate goal is to escape that prison and ride that elevator down Being forced to wallow in your own despair and self pity. If you struggle with depression and loneliness and you want to die, Do NOT do what the character in the game did. I sincerely cried for a long time after this video ended because it reminded me of myself. Your friends gone, the prison you live in in reality being the only way out. Trying to use money to push the pain away and make you happier but it never fucking works, ever. Your character was a person entirely cut off from the world listening to all the bullshit drivel those "it gets better" people throw at you. Charlotte never heard a word from you and held on for as long as she could but in the end it was not enough. Smiley couldn't smile, no matter how hard he tried. Money could not buy your happiness with all the money in the world he got from the profits of this virus. Just as you struggle with the emptiness in this game, so did Charlotte and the whole point was that the man Dr. "Īs a person who struggles with depression, suicidal thoughts, loneliness, this hit me hard. It was a huge metaphor for depression, suicide, loneliness, the expression of money being used for the things we want in our empty world, that money doesn't buy happiness no matter what. ![]() It terrified me more than any game he ever played because /this was not a game/
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