Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Gamer


I hear eveything thinks this movie is bad. It isn't bad per se, it is just that it is similar in basic plotting to Death Race, but at the same time entirely different. i don't think the main premise of the story is way off to the future of science. My mom is always saying we should get that Nextel card or something similar to that to get into the US. I'm totally opposed to it because they have your fingerprints in the American database. It makes me feel like a criminal. I'm going off on a tangent here, but here's these Americans who are terrified of government controlled health care, but they aren't worried about their fingerprints being collected. If you commit a crime, well if we have you in our database, you're as good as caught. That's terrifying that we are "potential" crime committers. This film is entirely plausible or happening in the future. It's more than true that the minute someone tells you not to think something or puts an idea in your head, it is almost impossible to not think about what you shouldn't. It's quite clever. It reminds me of a professor who told me not to look at my feet, which I didn't, but I couldn't help but avert my eyes towards to floor anyways. The movie was slightly sexist. Women are always skantily clad in games. I liked the movie. It had deep philosophical questions and probing. Funny, how the future and technology always leads to morality and ethics. What doesn't?

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