'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' (2018)
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is a 2018 psychological thriller interactive film in the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. Bandersnatch Fight Scene (https://youtu.be/BYY-EsajFfg) In Bandersnatch, viewers make decisions for the main character, the young programmer Stefan Butler who is adapting a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure novel into a video game in 1984. The film is based on a planned Imagine Software video game of the same name which went unreleased after the company filed for bankruptcy. It also alludes to Lewis Carroll's own works that feature the bandersnatch creature. A piece of science fiction and horror, Bandersnatch incorporates meta-commentary and rumination on free will. Bandersnatch is presented as an interactive film. A brief tutorial, specific to the device being streamed on, explains to the viewer how to make choices. They have ten seconds to make choices, or a default decision is made.[2] Once a playthrough ends, the viewer is given an option of going back and making a different choice.[3] The average viewing is 90 minutes, though the quickest path ends after 40 minutes.[1][4] There are 150 minutes of unique footage divided into 250 segments.