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The movie might have been as much an illusion as (allegedly) life itself.
(If you find this world bad, you should see some of the others, Dick asides.)
Less intimidating are the chatty interviews Ascher conducts with various individuals who discuss their own journeys toward simulation theory.
Later he recalls how his experience in a sensory-deprivation tank made him realize his body is an illusion.
But the tenor of the film isnt one of doubt or ridicule.
These peoples stories arent that bizarre or surreal; they are, by and large, universal and relatable.
Were all seeing and feeling the same things, but they process them in different ways.
(Cooke doesnt get an avatar; hes in prison.)
Anything else would lead to madness.
Ascher always seems to find a moving way out of these dense cognitive mazes.
He directed 2014sRoom 237, which charts a variety of individualssometimes extreme readingsof Stanley Kubricks filmThe Shining.
In effect, it winds up being about the mysteries of the human experience.
The world is fuckingcrazy, dude.
Anybody who claims to know for sure is either lying or insane.
