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2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – A Glitch in the Matrix flickeringmyth.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from flickeringmyth.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘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. ....
I remember the first time I saw Rodney Ascher’s Room 237, a truly unsettling series of interconnected theories about all the meanings hidden in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. All of the disparate, faceless interviewees had their own completely contradictory ideas about what Kubrick was doing, and Ascher presents them all totally without commentary or editorializing. It was a novel, if flawed, way to do a documentary. Turns out, that’s just kind of his bag as he employs nearly the exact same method in his newest film, A Glitch in the Matrix. Seemingly, it’s about examining the validity of whether or not we’re living in a simulation. But it’s not. It’s mostly just people saying nonsense. ....
He Thought He Was Living in 'The Matrix'—and Killed His Parents yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.