Gamer has bullshit smeared across it - by Nick van der Leek
Gamer is a great example of a current BULLSHIT movie. It's not credible, it's not creative, it has no story, it makes no sense, and as such, it's not worth caring about. It does seem to be a flick intended for audiences on LSD. It gets a 4/10.
"It's like someone threw a camera in a toilet and flushed it. It's just a bunch of crazy shit flying around."
The premise is simple. What if the avatars one uses in games could be real people? On the other hand, what if you were the avatar, unable to control your fate. Killing people thanks to the whims of others, or, in a different game platform, having sex with people. There is some Matrix theology here, rage against the machine, revolution against a system of control.
It is probably aimed at 17 year olds, but I doubt whether they are going to care. They've tried to sex it up by throwing in a lot of lurid girl on girl kissing. Naked breasts wobbly unsexily throughout the picture. The flick might be trying to make an intelligent point about the overindulgences of society - from violence, to sex, to everything that entertains us.
The problem is the flick itself is incredibly dumb. Everyone knows in real gaming that the avatar dies hundreds of times. The idea of this avatar beating the odds is very far fetched. It doesn't work.
What the flick does prove is to what extent the future is both not worth caring about, and something we seem unable to even imagine coherently.
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