- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2009
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Science-Fiction
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle 30 sessions in order to be set free.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Compassion
- Destiny
- Empathy
- Friendship
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loneliness
- Loyalty
- Narcissism
- Personal change
- Self-expression
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Life is Not a Game
None-to-subtle look at the decay and joylessness inherent in contemporary White culture that indulges what it satirizes; while not being all-that-funny. The emptiness of such a culture is never presented as being anything other than inevitable - without any possible alternative; making this film part of the problem. Worse, a character revelation halfway through fatally undermines its premiss by making this a conflict of Good people versus Evil people rather than a conflict with the Evil inside Whites.
Whites are correctly presented as economic inadequates causing and presiding over an economy-without-innovation or hard work. White supremacy having failed to produce empires with economic longevity, Whites now try to enslave each other for maximum profit - in the desperate hope that other ethnicities will follow; thereby, creating a virtual fantasy world of White supremacy to compensate for its lack in the real world.
Imaginative production design and rapid editing cannot adequately detract from the essential emptiness of the proceedings, here. Nor does it successfully explain why Whites are so terrified of living that they would prefer to do so via a proxy computer screen. An exploration of this desire always to be within the womb and thus to avoid adult responsibility would have made a far better movie.
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