âA Glitch in the Matrixâ Review: Is This All Just a Simulation?
This documentary, from the director of âRoom 237,â is a lively yet superficial exploration of the theory that our reality is actually a computer simulation.
A still from the documentary âA Glitch in the Matrix.âCredit...Magnolia
Directed by Rodney Ascher
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In the 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov asserted, not entirely playfully, that ârealityâ is a word that should only ever have quotation marks around it.
Contemporary technology has enabled thinkers to become more elaborate about the nature of the quotation marks. âA Glitch in the Matrix,â directed by Rodney Ascher â who also made âRoom 237,â a 2013 film that gave certain Stanley Kubrick enthusiasts a platform to theorize about âThe Shiningâ; many seemed to have too much time on their hands â explores the notion that weâre all living inside a computer simulation.