Wednesday 19 October 2016

CREATIVE CONTROL

Watchable. Why's a movie about the future black and white? Is it meant to be bleak?! Well, according to the film it's going to be all about sex and addictions: to drugs and to VR. "It's not what you think" takes on a new meaning. In augmented reality everyone becomes a product, you can cut up a voice record to have your private avatar say whatever you fancy hearing and you have virtual sex with the face of a real person combined with a porn star body. All screens are transparent and men's hairstyles and facial hair fashion resembles 70s porn actors. While I'm not fond of such a vision of the future, it's very likely to happen. In that sense it's quite realistic, not SF. The incurable characteristic of our civilization, present and future, is loneliness and search of love.

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