‘Glitch in the Matrix’ Film Review: Trippy Documentary Questions the Nature of Reality
Sundance 2021: Rodney Ascher (“Room 254”) explores people who think they’re living in a simulationElizabeth Weitzman | January 30, 2021 @ 10:54 PM Last Updated: February 5, 2021 @ 9:46 AM
Magnolia Pictures
Director Rodney Ascher’s specialty is obsession, but his approach succeeds as compassion. After giving voice to people consumed by “The Shining” (“Room 237”), ventriloquist dummies (“The Wooden Boy”) and sleep paralysis (“The Nightmare”), he’s shifted his attention to simulation theory with “Glitch in the Matrix,” premiering at Sundance just before it goes into wider release.
A subject tailor-made for college, festival and midnight audiences, simulation theory questions human determination by positing that we are merely avatars, and that some greater force an external gamer, if you will is our master manipulator.