Avalon

As I said in class, I'm not totally sure what I disliked about this movie more:

-the sepia tone

-the subtitles

-Ash's frontal bangs

-Ash's Harry Potter glasses

-the really graphic eating scene in the dinner (ew)

-the random opera concert that kept flashing during Ash and Murphy's shoot out

I'm pretty sure Ash's bangs are tied with the eating for worst place.

However, I did think that it was really interesting how all the character's struggled to define reality after becoming so involved with the game. Towards the beginning of the movie, Ash made a comment about how she's sure that "real life" must have felt more like reality at one point, but now she doubts herself. The game was so real and so constant to the players, that it felt more like reality than their actual reality.

I also found it interesting how when Ash was on her quest to find the Nine Sisters, she stumbled upon a poser team with the same name. When this fake named team attempted to steal her weapons, Ash commented how that was illegal, and the team members shrugged. Players in the game broke the rules just like how people do in reality. Even within a video game, people can ignore their conscience. Perhaps even more so in the game because it's "not real."

Regardless, I really didn't like this movie, and am still asking myself why some one would want to play a video game that could leave them brain dead. I would rather play Temple Run.