In the end, this sudden scene made He An completely stunned. When he came back to his senses, the list of producers at the end of the film had already appeared on the screen.
It's just that what's broadcast along with the producer list is not the highlights of the game, but a news report.
"The President delivered a eulogy on the passing of Jeff Ernault, the current president of Luxury Group, through the official White House blog. The full text of the eulogy is as follows:"
"'Mitchell (the President's wife) and I were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mr. Jeff Ernault. Jeff was hard-working, disciplined and of great character, an entrepreneur, philanthropist, A best-selling author and a good friend of ours.'"
"'He was good at thinking differently, believing he could work to change the world and help others. His charitable foundation has helped tens of thousands of homeless people, and his book Struggle and Grow Rich inspires Countless young people are fighting for their dreams.'"
"'The world has lost a visionary who will always be missed. Mitchell and I send our thoughts and prayers to Jeff's wife, his family and all who loved him. '"
"… "
"It is reported that Mr. Jeff Ernault was brutally killed by the murderer when he signed a bookstore in the Bronklin area. Tens of thousands of people were excited and demanded that the law punish the murderer."
"At present, the real motive of the murderer is still unclear. The police have not found any relationship between him and Mr. Jeff. The murderer seems to have a mental disorder and refuses to answer any questions from the police, but keeps repeating the word 'liar'. The trial, this station will continue to follow up…”
In the final news screen, the protagonist's parents, wife, and children burst into tears at the protagonist's funeral.
The rich version of the game is all over.
…
He Anren was a little dizzy.
Gone
ended
What does this ending mean
My career just took off, and then people died
Who is this murderer
Why did he want to kill me
Did I choose something wrong earlier, and that's why it ended tragically
It always felt like something was wrong.
He An thought about it carefully, the whole game seems to be okay, the transitions between scenes are very natural, the details are also very well done, and there is a sense of substitution.
Only this ending is too abrupt, and there is absolutely no foreshadowing before!
He An thought for a while, and felt that he might have missed some links and steps. If you play the second week or the poor man's version, you may be able to play other endings.
After all, there are at least dozens of branch lines to choose from, and there may be some other options that can change fate.
But He An doesn't plan to play the second game now, the psychological trauma of this ending is a bit serious.
The game is well done as a whole, whether it is the story, plot, lines or details of the picture, there is nothing to fault, only this story makes people confused.
This kind of feeling is like going to a banquet, good wine and good dishes are served one by one, but just after the first bite, the table is overturned.
"Is there some content related to the rich version hidden in the poor version?"
He An couldn't help but have such an idea.
Although the introduction of the poor man's version is enough to persuade him to quit, He An still has some luck.
What if there is anything special
He considered for a moment, or clicked on the poor man's version and started the game.
Like the rich version, the poor version begins with an inner monologue.
…
"I am very grateful to my father."
"If it wasn't for him, I would probably have attended Borkin Elementary, one of the worst public elementary schools in the country, where half of the graduates go to middle schools called 'cesspools', where more than 40 percent of students fail to graduate, so it is also known as the 'dropout factory'."
"There are 2,000 such 'dropout factories' in the country, and they will continue to send idle young people to the society."
"In our state, where 68 percent of offenders are high school dropouts, state funding for prisons and students presents a comical inversion of the cart before the horse, with the money spent on one inmate every four years, enough for a child in private After the school finishes K12 from kindergarten, there is still $20,000 left to go to college.”
"There are 70,000 homeless people in the country's largest city. Every day, in the streets and subway stations, there are countless beggars, disabled people, mentally ill people, alcoholics, and ex-convicts."
"Thirty-six per cent of them are children, and the remaining 64 per cent are mostly single mothers and single men without children."
"In this country, you first have to have a sum of money to keep your life going in a cheap way."
“If you get to the point where you need to get help, you can’t get a job with it, you can’t rent a house without a job, you can’t do anything without a house. Once you become homeless, it means social death, even if If you are healthy and healthy, you will not be able to return to your previous life, you will only be able to live on the streets all your life.”
"I'm sensitive to these numbers, I don't know if it's a gift or a survival instinct."
"Maybe the life of the poor is just a series of numbers."
"A lot of poor people will complain about their parents."
"But anyway, I'm very grateful to my father."
"He didn't make me one of these people."
"My father always told me that I have to learn from the good people, to change the mindset of the poor, to work hard and not to follow the crowd."
"Struggle will change your life."
"I have no doubts about that."
Unlike the beginning of the rich man's version, the poor man's version begins not with a specific event, but with a number of fragmented scenes that abstractly depict those images in the protagonist's narration.
Then, there are memories of the protagonist's childhood.
"Shortly after I was born, my mother had to quit her job to be a stay-at-home wife because she was the only one who could take care of me."
"It didn't change until I went to kindergarten, because kindergarten closes at 1pm and leaving a child at home alone would violate child protection laws."
"So, if my mother's after-tax wages can't go to kindergarten or cram school to meet child protection laws, it's better not to work, but it will save money."
"My father worked more than ten hours a day, and I rarely saw him. But his dedication was meaningful. He took me out of Polkin Elementary School and came to a better school district."
"We live in low-rent housing, which is a blessing, because you can only live in the 20% to 25% income range, you have to be richer than 75% of people, and also richer than the bottom 20%, That's a very harsh number."
"Hobbies? No, that's a number I can't afford."
Along with the protagonist's narration, scenes flashed on the screen.
In the low-rent housing, the protagonist's mother takes care of the baby by herself.
The protagonist's public school is also very different from the wealthy's version of the private school, but what's even more surprising is the after-school entertainment.
In the rich version, the player's entertainment is horse riding, archery, learning music and painting, while in the poor version, the player's entertainment is running and jumping in the yard, riding a bicycle or playing football or baseball.
Although these small games are also well done, they become dull compared to the rich version.
He An wanted the protagonist to learn some hobbies instead of running wild in the yard every day, but soon found that his funds were stretched.
Ask the teacher to teach the cello at home, the price is $75 per hour;
Parents take their children to swimming lessons for $20 per 30 minutes, or $200 per hour for professional classes.
Gymnastics class is 30 minutes, 5~10 children will join together, the teacher will lead the warm-up for 2 minutes at the beginning, and the rest of the time is spent by parents playing with the children with props and equipment, and each class is 20 dollars.
Even these courses, which are of poor quality and not cheap, need to be booked more than 2 months in advance.
For He An, the most prominent feeling compared to the poor version and the rich version is boring.
With no money, there are only a few options to choose from. Whether it’s running around the yard or riding a bike, it’s obvious that you’re wasting your time.
Likewise, the poor man's version of the characters are also very face-to-face, with serious obesity problems, and also fully conform to the stereotype.
Childhood is followed by youth, and the protagonist enters high school with hard work and takes a loan to college. In high school, there are more activities, you can participate in choirs and orchestras, you can participate in debates.
Although the protagonist of the poor and the protagonist of the rich have similar efforts, there is a big gap in the resources that can be obtained.
Whether you can go to university or not will determine the content of the game in the later work phase.
If you do not have professional skills, you can only work as a restaurant waiter, cleaning staff, elderly care or supermarket tally clerk, and even work seven days a week and work two jobs will still be bankrupt;
A colleague was accidentally sprained while cleaning, and she was afraid to call an ambulance or even go home to rest. She could only kneel on one foot and continue cleaning. Because she could not lose a day's salary, the team leader only told her to "calm down and rely on work to support her." past".
If you want to get a job in the low-end service industry, you can only find a job in a big city, but the rent in the big city has been pushed up to an almost unaffordable level by the rich. If you go to a capsule hotel with a high price, the more you live, the poorer you get. Once you get sick or your rent goes up in peak season, you risk going bankrupt or even sleeping on the street.
If you find a job through your own hard study and have an income of about $4,000 a month, then the situation will be slightly better, but the various expenses will still be overwhelming, and the monthly fixed expenses will account for all the income. 80%, tax and insurance 25%, rent 29%, children's education 26%, car 5%, water and electricity 5%, food and clothing 10%, excluding medical care.
Basically, it is difficult to have $400 left over a month. If any accident happens, it is still bankrupt and homeless.
If you can make all the right choices and get a relatively high-paying job, then your life will be relatively comfortable, but all kinds of related expenses will also increase linearly, and some expenses that you don't need to pay have become options that must be paid.
And this is what makes He An feel the most outrageous. Obviously he can save a lot of money, but a lot of expenses are still forcibly deducted by the game, such as:
Buy luxury suits and bags for decent work;
I spent 2,000 dollars to take my child to the Sea Paradise for three days on his birthday;
Social expenses, including the community where you live, your child's extracurricular studies, etc., are also a lot of money;
In order to save expenses, I am used to paying by credit card installments, so that the number of credit card repayments in each installment is very high, and I have no idea where the money is spent...
These choices seem to have certain inevitability, such as buying luxury suits and bags. The protagonist did not want to buy them at first, but all the colleagues in the company are using them.
Therefore, the protagonist finally gritted his teeth and bought these things.
At this point, He An seemed to understand a little what the protagonist said at the beginning.
The life of the poor is a series of numbers, and this number is all kinds of expenses.
In the end, however, this number collapsed.
As the protagonist's consumption level is getting higher and higher, the sudden unemployment destroys all this, and the whole chain collapses rapidly: loss of income, not paying the credit card, the bank to collect the house, the interest on the card debt continues to accumulate...
As a result, the living environment of the protagonist returned to the way he was when his father was.
In a scene after scene, the protagonist's voice sounded again.
"My father always told me that I have to learn from the good people, to change the mindset of the poor, to work hard and not to follow the crowd."
"Struggle will change your life."
"I tried, but everything seems to be back to where it was again, nothing has changed."
"Is my struggle pointless? I don't think so. At least, I'm not one of those homeless people."
"I keep thinking:"
"If I hadn't lost my job..."
"If I save some more..."
"If only I could spend less..."
"If... I can make some more right choices, can I change my destiny?"
In the last scene, the protagonist came home late at night after a day's work and walked gently to the child's room.
In the darkness, he looked at the sleeping child by the moonlight and covered him with a blanket.
At this moment, the child woke up, rubbed his eyes with tender little hands, and asked, "Dad, why do you come back so late every day and never have time to accompany me?"
He was silent for a while, then touched the child's forehead: "Because mom doesn't have a job, dad has to work hard to make money."
The child said again: "Then when will Dad be with me?"
"Wait until Dad makes enough money," he said.
The child's eyes sparkled: "Dad, when I grow up and earn enough money, you can accompany me every day, right?"
"Then Dad, how can I make enough money?"
The protagonist was silent for a long time, and then said: "Money will not fall from the sky. Only if you are not satisfied with the status quo, can life become better."
"Learn from those who are excellent, change the mindset of the poor, work hard, and don't follow the crowd."
"Work hard to change your life."
The child's big eyes shone brightly in the moonlight, and he nodded heavily.
At the end of the game, the list of production staff appeared on the screen.
The ending scene this time is that a young man is burying his head in reading, and at the same time, another younger narration with a different voice from the protagonist sounds.
"My father always told me that I have to learn like those good people, to change the thinking of the poor, to work hard and not to follow the crowd."
"Struggle will change your life."
"I have no doubts about that."