(The wave of schmaltz that washes over the proceedings at the end of the film must be experienced to be believed, and makes the ending feel all the weirder and more misbegotten.) Not only does it argue rewriting the rules in real life is as easy as tweaking a bit of code, but it also claims this is the path to happiness.
It champions the idea of virtual violence ultimately inspiring violence in real life, an oddly incongruous message for the current moment.Įven worse - yes, it gets worse - the film attempts a happy ending for both its virtual and real protagonists. Indeed, the ultimate moral of this confusing story is that “doing the right thing” is often synonymous with committing heinous acts.
#MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY FISHING MOVIE MOVIE#
The movie also isn’t willing to grapple with the premise it sets up of between right and wrong, or the corollary parable of video game rules mirroring the rules of society. Opinion Netflix's 'Roma' nominations are not a fluke. A film starring Academy-Award winner Matthew McConaughey and Academy-Award winner Anne Hathaway opening the weekend after the Oscars nominations were announced suggests something has gone deeply wrong - even if you weren’t aware the movie was originally slated for a September 2018 release (right in time for awards season) before being unceremoniously moved. While the first three months of the year are no longer the Hollywood dead zone they once were, it’s also not known as a staging ground for the coming year’s top hits. To be fair, this weekend’s big-screen release seems to have been doomed from the start. What happens when those characters we build out of our imagination when they begin to realize they are merely avatars of a deeply flawed human god? There are brilliant ways to tell this story.
#MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY FISHING MOVIE TV#
Most recently the subject of “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” characters in both TV and film are increasingly questioning their creators. Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) is a fishing boat captain obsessed with catching one particular tuna fish. One of the stories Hollywood seems obsessed with at the moment is how the growing ability to depict a realistic fantasy world has blurred the lines between what is real and what is programming.
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