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"Bandersnatch"
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An image of Stefan Butler in profile, with his head outlined by twenty circular ripples. The poster says: A Black Mirror Event. Bandersnatch.
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Directed byDavid Slade
Written byCharlie Brooker
Produced byRussell McLean
Original air date28 December 2018 (2018-12-28)
Running timeVariable (90 minutes for default path)[1]
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (also referred to simply as Bandersnatch) is a 2018 interactive film in the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. Written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade, Netflix released it on 28 December 2018 as a standalone film.[2][3]

In Bandersnatch, viewers make decisions for the main character, young programmer Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) who adapts a fantasy novel into a video game in 1984.[4] Other characters include Mohan Thakur (Asim Chaudhry) and Colin Ritman (Will Poulter), who work at a video game company, and Butler's father, Peter (Craig Parkinson) and Butler's therapist, Dr. Haynes (Alice Lowe). The film is based on a planned Imagine Software video game of the same name which went unreleased after the company filed for bankruptcy. A piece of horror and science fiction, Bandersnatch incorporates meta-commentary and rumination on free will.

Brooker and executive producer Annabel Jones were approached by Netflix about making an interactive film in May 2017, during which time Netflix had several interactive projects for children underway. Difficulty in writing the highly non-linear script led to the creation of a bespoke Branch Manager for Netflix, and the unique nature of the content required adaptations in the platform's use of cache memory. Filming and production took longer than for typical Black Mirror episodes. A quickly-deleted tweet from a Netflix account about the release of Bandersnatch led to widespread media speculation throughout December, which Netflix declined to comment on. The trailer for Bandersnatch was released on 27 December 2018, a day before the film was released.

Synopsis

Presentation

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.[5] Once a playthrough ends, the viewer is given an option of going back and making a different choice.[6] The average viewing is 90 minutes, though the quickest path ends after 40 minutes.[1] There are 150 minutes of unique footage divided into 250 segments.[7] IGN reports that according to Netflix, there are five "main" endings, with variants within each ending.[6] When the viewer reaches such an ending, the interactive film gives the player the option to redo a last critical choice as to be able to explore these endings.[5] In some cases, the viewer can reach the same segment in multiple different ways, but be given different choices based on the way they reached the segment.[8] In other cases, certain loops guide viewers to a specific narrative regardless of the choices they make.[9]

Plot

In England in July 1984, 19-year-old programmer Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) dreams of adapting a "choose your own adventure" book called Bandersnatch by tragic writer Jerome F. Davies (Jeff Minter) into what he hopes will be a revolutionary adventure video game. The game involves traversing a graphical maze of corridors while avoiding a creature called the Pax, and at times making choices by an on-screen instruction. Butler produces the game for video game company Tuckersoft, which is run by Mohan Thakur (Asim Chaudhry) and employs the famous game creator Colin Ritman (Will Poulter). Butler is given the choice of accepting or rejecting help from the company in developing the game. If Butler accepts the offer, Ritman says he chose the "wrong path" and he lives the day again, being given the same choice.

If Butler instead rejects, he begins to work on the game on his own, given a deadline of 12 September by Thakur so Tuckersoft can publish it for Christmas sales. He goes to therapy with Dr. R. Haynes (Alice Lowe) and is given the choice to discuss his mother's death at age 5. His mother was on a train which derailed, having missed her planned train as Butler would not leave the house without his toy rabbit, which his father Peter (Craig Parkinson) had taken from him believing boys his age should not be playing with dolls. Another choice allows Butler to follow Ritman back to his flat, where he lives with his girlfriend Kitty and child Pearl, and take hallucinogens. Ritman then talks about alternate timelines and different paths, and either Butler or Ritman jumps off the balcony. The viewer can then go back to other paths, in which Ritman has mysteriously disappeared and Kitty is looking for him.

As the deadline to deliver the game to Thakur looms with strange errors still present in the game, Butler begins to feel he is being controlled by outside forces, putting into question how much he trusts his father and Dr. Haynes. Butler finds his life mirroring that of Davies, seeing recurring imagery of a "branching pathway" symbol, which seemingly led to Davies beheading his own wife. As he begins to mentally break down, the viewer has the option to explain to Butler, via his 1984 computer, that Netflix is sending him the signals from the 21st century. One path leads to a reveal that the characters are actors, and Butler's dad is actually the director. Another leads to Butler attacking his therapist and father. One set of choices leads Butler following Ritman's advice, seemingly crossing through a mirror to his 5 year old self to go along with his mother to "die" in derailment, causing Butler's body to suddenly die in the present. The viewer may discover a locked safe that either contains Butler's old teddy bear, or documents about him being monitored as part of an experiment. In other paths, the viewer has the option to make Butler kill his father, bury or chop up the body and then choose whether to kill Ritman or Thakur. These paths can end in the present day, as Pearl, now a programmer for Netflix, is attempting to adapt Butler's Bandersnatch into an interactive film and starts experiencing the same "branching path" imagery seen by both Davies and Butler.

Production

Bandersnatch is an interactive film, in which viewers are asked at various points to make a choice which affects the storyline. It was released on Netflix on 28 December 2018 and is available in 28 languages.[5] Netflix had previously released some interactive programmes for children, starting in 2017 with Puss in Book.[10] Netflix also released the 2015 Telltale Games interactive series Minecraft: Story Mode on their website in November 2018.[11] Bandersnatch was their first release targeted at adults.[1]

The film was written by series creator Charlie Brooker. He and executive producer Annabel Jones were approached by Netflix in May 2017 about making an interactive episode;[5] their initial instinct was to reject the offer, particularly over concerns over the lack of seamless transitions from earlier interactive movies.[5] However, while during a script meeting a few weeks later, they conceived of a plot which only worked as an interactive film, based on a programmer making a video game out of a choose-your-own-adventure book. This concept, alongside the interactive nature of the work, served to amplify the effects of interactivity rather than just make it a gimmick.[1][5][12] Brooker had previously conceived of multiple endings for the third series episode "Playtest"; a "nightmare mode" version of the episode, played when the viewer had seen the episode once before, would have ended with a much darker resolution.[12]

Brooker initially envisaged the film as having one clear story, with a few different scenes at the end, until he had the idea of the film remembering earlier choices and incorporating them.[5] As to keep the narrative focused with the numerous divergent endings, Brooker kept the story's core concept around the freedom of choice or the illusion of that freedom.[12] At Netflix's suggestion, he wrote the 170-page script in Twine, a tool for writing interactive fiction,[7] also utilising Scrivener, Final Draft and multiple versions of Microsoft Notepad.[5] The basic structure of the film took the most time to write, and the script underwent seven different versions.[7] As the first Netflix interactive content for adults, Bandersnatch required more complex choices than previous interactive works, leading Netflix staff to create a bespoke tool which they named Branch Manager. There are over one trillion possible paths the viewer can take.[1][13] Discussions were had over the number of choices the viewer should make and how the film should be paced. The storylines and branches continued expanding into pre-production.[1]

Streaming requires two choices to be pre-cached, which meant that Bandersnatch could not be made available on some older devices, or Chromecast or Apple TV.[a][1] To help viewers who may not be familiar with how adventure games work, the film includes an early, seemingly trivial choice of which breakfast cereal Stefan has. This not only shows the viewer how choices are presented during the film, but how their state is recalled by the Netflix app later in their viewing. In this case, the cereal selection informs a television advert in-movie.[5] The film will progress with a predetermined default choice if the user does not respond in the short window given.[5] If no choices are selected, the viewer will get the most basic version of the story, as determined by Brooker.[12]

Bandersnatch stars Fionn Whitehead, who appeared in the 2017 war film Dunkirk; Will Poulter, an actor in the 2014 thriller The Maze Runner and the 2017 crime drama Detroit; and Asim Chaudhry, a star of mockumentary People Just Do Nothing.[14] Davies is played by independent game developer Jeff Minter who has had developed several psychedelic video games including Polybius inspired by a video game urban legend of the same name.[15]

The film was directed by David Slade, who previously directed series four episode "Metalhead".[4] The score was composed by Brian Reitzell,[16] also featuring songs such as "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[17] Production took eight months, while filming lasted around 35 days,[7][12][13] which was considerably longer than the average for a Black Mirror episode.[18] Some exterior filming took place in Croydon during April 2018.[19] Among locations used included St George's Walk, with storefronts redressed to appear as stores from the 1980s, and No. 1 Croydon, the apparent headquarters for Tuckersoft.[20] Assets were required to be locked in for Netflix by the end of November 2018.[12]

Media speculation

On 5 March 2018, Netflix announced via social media that the series had been renewed for a fifth season.[21] In April 2018, Digital Spy reported on the filming in Croydon, asserting it was for an episode titled Bandersnatch.[19][22]

In October 2018, Bloomberg News reported that according to an unnamed source, an interactive episode of Black Mirror was planned alongside several other interactive specials, the first of which was planned for release in 2018.[10] A spokesperson, when asked about this by The Verge, responded with: "Thanks for reaching out! You have the ability to choose your own response from Netflix: this or this." The first "this" contained a link to a GIF from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt of a character saying "razzmatazz", and the second linked to a YouTube video of crickets chirping.[23]

In late November and early December, it was widely reported that Twitter users had spotted a since-deleted tweet from an official Netflix account, with a list of premiere dates including 28 December 2018 for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.[24][25][26] The film was certified by the Korean and Dutch ratings board prior to its release, with the former reporting that it was 5 hours and 12 minutes in length, leading to further media speculation.[27]

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The trailer for Bandersnatch.

On 19 December 2018, Netflix added the title Black Mirror: Bandersnatch as an upcoming film, with the tagline "Be right back." This references the series two episode of the same name. Various runtimes including 2 minutes, 36 minutes and 90 minutes were listed in different territories.[27] In late December, media reported on an image of the cast and a claim that Slade would direct the episode.[27][22][28] On 27 December 2018, Netflix released a 90-second trailer for Bandersnatch which announced a release date of 28 December.[29][30][17]

Carla Engelbrecht, Netflix's director of product innovation, told The Hollywood Reporter that they did not officially announce that Bandersnatch would be an interactive episode so that viewers would not have "preconceived notions", such as an overestimation of the level of interactivity. No screeners were sent to critics in advance of the film's release, though Netflix had invited select media writers to their headquarters about a month prior to release and give them an opportunity to try the interactive film.[12]

Analysis

The term "bandersnatch" originates from a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll, which appear in his 1870s poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Hunting of the Snark".[31] The film makes several allusions to Carroll's works. Part of Butler's motivation is to find his stuffed rabbit toy which leads him to discover deeper secrets, comparable to Alice's quest to find the White Rabbit in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Ritman and his wife Kitty lead Butler into a psychedelic experience in their flat, correlating to the Mad Hatter's tea party from the same story, with Kitty's appearance even similar to that of the Hatter. At one point, Butler travels through a mirror, or literally going Through the Looking-Glass. The design of the Pax is similar to Carroll's own drawing of the Bandersnatch.[32]

Bandersnatch was a planned video game by Imagine Software. One of several expensive "megagames" which Imagine Software worked on, Bandersnatch was never released as the company went bankrupt in 1984.[27] As an allusion, the film opens on 9 July 1984, the day Imagine was closed, and the cover of Crash with this news is featured in the film.[33] The video game was mentioned in an Easter egg in series three episode "Playtest", on the front cover of a magazine which is briefly shown onscreen.[34] Additionally, the story shares elements of the works of Philip K. Dick, who frequently wrote on alternate timelines, and whose work Ubik is visually referenced in the film. Brooker also compares the story to the 1993 comedy fantasy Groundhog Day, about a character who re-lives the same day repeatedly.[18]

The glyph from "White Bear" reappears in Bandersnatch representing two branching pathways.

Bandersnatch has elements of comedy, horror, pathos, science fiction and a 1980s period piece.[35][5] David Griffin of IGN compares it to the adventure video game series The Walking Dead, whose first instalment was released in 2012, and the 2018 adventure game Detroit: Become Human.[6]

The film contains meta-commentary:[35] Stuart Heritage of The Guardian wrote that "Brooker has popularised a new form of storytelling, then identified its tropes and dismantled them one by one."[36] Ed Cumming of The Independent commented that it contains themes of "authorial control, free will and fate".[37]

Easter eggs

Like previous episodes, Bandersnatch makes several allusions to previous Black Mirror episodes. The "branching path" symbol which Davis and later Bulter experience is equivalent in a digital version to the symbol used in "White Bear".[38] One of Tuckersoft's successful games is "Metl Hedd", a reference to "Metalhead", also directed by Slade, while Ritman is shown to be working on a game called Nohzdyve, referencing the episode "Nosedive".[39] Butler attends counselling at the Saint Juniper clinic, named for "San Junipero",[37] while Tuckersoft alludes to TCKR Systems first introduced in San Junipero and referenced in later episodes. References to various other Black Mirror episodes can be seen in news stories shown in brief shots of the pages of The Sun newspaper and on a television news crawl; such episodes include "The National Anthem", "Be Right Back", "15 Million Merits", "The Waldo Moment", "Hated in the Nation", "USS Callister", "Crocodile", and "Hang the DJ".[40][41] Some journalists noted that "R. Haynes" may allude to Rolo Haynes, the proprietor of the titular showcase in "Black Museum".[40][41]

In one ending, a sound similar to a Commodore Datasette recording is heard; loading the sound to a ZX Spectrum provides the viewer with a QR code with the White Bear glyph in the middle that leads to the fictional Tuckersoft website, where a playable copy of the ZX Spectrum game Nohzdyve can be downloaded.[42][43]

Reception

Bandersnatch received an average of 8.4 out of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes, with an overall 90% approval based on 10 reviews.[44] Griffin gives Bandersnatch a rating of 8.0. He praised the technical aspect of the film, calling the decision points "smooth and unobtrusive" and commenting that they add tension. Griffin praised performances by Whitehead and Poulter and wrote that the film "takes the best aspects of video games and movies".[6] Cumming gave the episode four stars out of five, believing the best aspects to be unrelated to the interactive format. Cumming praised Poulter's acting, the "ominous and claustrophobic" set design and the "knowing and smart" dialogue.[37] In an A– review, Liz Shannon Miller of IndieWire lauded the usability of the film, as well as the meta-commentary and ideas about free will. Miller called Whitehead "capable" and noted "one genuinely creepy moment" bolstered by Slade's directing.[35] Heritage praised the user experience, as well as the film's "ambition". Praising the storyline as "incredibly funny at times", Heritage reported being left with a "profound feeling of satisfaction" after he had finished exploring.[36] Roisin O'Connor of The Independent criticises that after a while of navigating choices, this feature becomes "wearisome" and "pulls you out of the story".[9] Brian Lowry of CNN said "give everyone associated with the stunt -- including 'Black Mirror' creator Charlie Brooker -- an 'A' for effort, but maybe a 'C+' for the execution", praising the ability of Netflix to take experimental risks but found the repetition in trying out the other choices in Bandersnatch to be dull and numbing.[45] Linda Holmes for NPR similarly commented that the interactivity function was novel, but the complexity of Bandersnatch's plot made it tedious to seek out all the possible endings that the narrative offered, often having to watch the same scenes repeatedly. Holmes offered that the interactivity would work better in a more directed narrative.[46]

Related media

Following the release of Bandersnatch to Netflix, a live website for the fictional company Tuckersoft was made available. The site documents some of the fictional games discussed in the film, but includes a playable version of Nohzdyve that requires the use of a ZX Spectrum emulator.[47] The site also includes a recruitment ad for Tuckersoft, but in actuality links to open job positions at Netflix.[48] [49]

Notes

  1. ^ Attempting to watch the film on an unsupported platform will result in a short video message using clips from earlier episodes of Black Mirror informing the viewer that their platform does not currently support interactive content on Netflix.

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