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Virtual Reality: from potential to danger
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>Virtual reality is the future of this world. At least that's what we all believed in 1991-1992. Today we would be more cautious. The film demonstrates this potential virtual reality has, but associated to some chemical, hence in a very unnatural way. It can wake up brain cells that have been dormant forever or for ages. It can multiply the learning power of a subject. It can also - that's what the film asserts - enhance the extra-sensorial powers of the brain. So far will I say we are on Strephen King's line. But here we depart and we can understand why Stephen King denied his paternity. The film becomes a horror film about rotten corporations in alliance with just as rotten administrative services of the government and with similarly rotten ambitious individuals, scientists or not, who are ready to use simple human beings, particularly retarded ones to experiement a drug and a treatment without any guarantee. This will eventually turn into a drama and the poor retarded boy who had suddenly become super intelligent will become a mixture of a justice maker, an avenger, and an illuminated prophet, whereas the scientist will try to do the same and destroy his work since it is so un-human and dangerous. We thus more or less end up in fear. <
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>This second episode wants to be the end, I mean termination, of the first episode, and both illustrate the fear that was present at the end of the first episode and the possibility to get rid of the danger that virtual reality represents now, because now there is no potential, just danger. In a few years the dominant opinion on virtual reality had changed completely to become a vision of utter destruction for humanity in the hands of all kinds of ambitious social climbers and mentally deranged people. But here the interest is to see where the protection comes from : scientists and engineers, some of them at least, and young people who are otherwise engaged in all kinds of marginal escapistic delinquent activities. The danger is both mental and material. Mental because a new prophet is going to be born thanks to this virtual reality and material because this prophet is going to lead everyone into annihilation. The touching note comes from a dog who is so brilliant that he obeys his master on a TV screen and he can put a CD or CD-Rom in the correct drive and activate it. Touching touchy touchstone, isn't it ? <
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>Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne <
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Was hoping for better versions.
I picked this up in order to help complete my collection of cyberpunk films. In the back of my mind I was hoping for additional footage, cut scenes, etc. <
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>There is nothing extra here at all. A very poorly done full screen cut and piss poor menu's. <
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>Hopefully one day the DVD will come out in the US will all the additional footage and story additions. Sadly I'm not holding my breath.