It hooks them up to a VR simulation of 1950's america and they're the abusive husband to a hot wife and two kids. Racism is alive and well and the USA and white people by extension run the world.
They can never leave, much like the matrix they're locked into the simulation for life but it's more humane than wholesale genocide because let's face it, a lot of people in the USA deserve it.
On the one hand, the worst thing that can happen to someone is that they get everything they ever wanted
On the other hand, the matrix taught us that even the Paradise simulation couldn't work because the human mind would rebel.
Instead, allow me to present the Samsara Midnight Realm Cube. They get roughly the median life in america with all the attendant miseries and temporary happiness that implies, BUT it's just slightly degraded and worse. Like the movie Wristcutters.
The matrix is fiction, it depicted that in the movie, it doesn't really seek to prove the same irl
Oh shit didn't realize we had blue pills here, yes yes the matrix was just a movie and dorpheus was just a prank in the office
But they don't want a paradise, they want hell.
They don't want happiness, they want others to be miserable. They would forever chase that feeling of power they imagine they would get when they yell at someone, or beat their wives up in exactly the right circumstances. Except this perfect circumstance where they would completely dominate someone in a righteous way never occurs for some reason, it's always tainted by something... But they never know quite what it is.
Big Cluster B energy. They can't be at peace or content. The dissatisfaction and emptiness already defines them.
How about they get a place to be angsty and whine about kids these days and how much they hate The Wife but at a slow simmer that keeps their leaded brains engaged? Sort of stuck in an eternal 20th century sitcom.
Great movie. The soundtrack, the humor, [redacted] as a hippy commune leader haha! Not to mention other surprise actor [redacted]. Thanks for reminding me of a favorite.
just did a deep dive about this movie as i never saw it (it came out during a rough time of my life). seems so unique though and i now want to
Its quite cool! Maybe a bit too sweet but i eat that up sooo
when there is trap...
...you'll get it.