"Mr. Robot" episode four took a different turn compared to the first ones. Instead of a daily hacking adventure, lead character Elliot (Rami Malek) played the entire hour mostly away from the computer because of the side effects of his drug addition.
He turned to more drugs to be able to regain his strength but what he earned are hallucinations that messed up his way of thinking.
He is not the only whose mind got messed up, even the viewers. For a moment, some though nothing is ever real in the new world that Elliot is in. Some think he is just developing his own Tyler Durden in "Mr. Robot" episode four.
Is Mr. Robot (Christian Slater) real or just a product of Elliot's imagination?
"Mr. Robot" cast Rami Malek sat down with Wall Street Journal shortly after the latest episode and there, he explained that all of those scenes, the bestowal of him as FSociety leader, the shooting, and more are part of his subconscious and let people see what kind of a person he is.
"Sam [Esmail] doesn't do anything without intention. So even as abstract as those moments are, they're all relevant to Elliot's psyche and what's going on in his subconscious. How they surface in his dream is a clue to who Elliot is, the kind of man he's striving to become, and the fears he feels are tying him down," the "Mr. Robot" cast told WSJ.
When asked to specify which among those sequences are real, "Mr. Robot" cast Rami Malek has this to say:
"The question gets asked in the dream: What is your monster? And that's something I kept asking myself while working on Elliot. Once I started asking that question, everything in the dream made a little more sense to me. The show approaches these grand themes about the constructs of who we are as individuals and what we coalesce to be as a society. What we're doing to either alleviate this stagnant, corrupt world we live in. I know that's long-winded. The short answer is, working on this dream sequence allowed me to do some examination of who I am and what my monsters are, and that's going to let people reflect in a way that's not always offered by television."
"Mr. Robot" episode five will air on July 22 and titled "eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv". Other parts of "Mr. Robot" cast are Portia Doubleday as Angela Moss, Carly Chaikin as Darlene, and Martin Wallström as Tyrell Wellick.
