He's a NPC (non playable character) who is actually artificial intelligence, but the questions of personhood and desire for love and freedom only extend so far.
I'm not saying they it should have tackled the big questions of identify that the Truman Show does, maybe it played the balance right.
I'm with you - I think it tried to toe the line between Truman Show dramedy and silly comedy, and misfired. It was funny but not that funny, poignant but not really, a little provocative but not enough... it was just kinda there.
I liked it enough but I'll probably never see it again.
Yeah, I second this.
shareI think that pretty much sums it up.
shareweird. I never once lined this up with the truman show. I mean I suppose I see that, but seems like a reach. feels like a much better version of ready player one to me - one I would want to watch more than once, and have.
shareYeah the only Truman Show bit to it was the random breaks the movie took to focus on some random Youtuber blabbing about the game. Frankly it had too much of that as the Youtube breaks mostly just created roadbumps in the movie. In the end it was trying to be deep it was mindless entertainment which it did a pretty decent at.
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