Avalon- Jake Bradbury

My take on the film is a negative one. I had a hard time accepting the video game style when the graphics look so far behind modern day video game graphics. This could possibly be due to the fact that it is an older movie. I found the movie a little slow for my taste and I thought the movie could have been better without the whole aspect of Avalon and the nine sisters. The movie plays the song throughout and they mention the nine sisters but I do not think it clicked well. I understand that it was about Ash reaching Elysium but for me it did not click. I think it could have worked better if they had more closely looked into the details of the different realities instead of bringing in the confusing Avalon theme. I did appreciate how the director tied in things that made me think about other movies. The bricked wall was reminiscent of "The Matrix" and the gross chewing scene was used in the third installment of "Lord of the Rings. In conclusion. I found the idea of playing with the perception of reality interesting. The fact that Ash gets dragged further into the game and reality becomes distorted makes me think about what is actually real. I think that the film is trying to say that whatever realm someone is presently in is the actual reality and one can go crazy if they dwell on past and future places.