It’s where he’s met his friends and where he spends his days. We learn all this in voiceover from Wade ( Tye Sheridan), a teenage orphan who lives with his aunt in a trailer park and plays in the OASIS as an avatar called Parzival.
It’s gotten so bad that most people prefer to spend their time in a massive video game called the OASIS, where they engage as characters in various worlds and collect coin, the in-game currency. The year is 2045, and the world has gone to shit. Ready Player One is about a quest to save the (virtual) world But it seems to have no idea how dystopian it really is. Ready Player One is set in a dystopian future. On the contrary, it seemed blithely unaware of how disturbing it was. And while that could work in a satirical film, Ready Player One is far from satirical.
The movie was asking me to root for the heroes - but I wanted nothing more than for them to fail in their quest. Sometimes adventure movies become so bloated with action scenes that the story stops being interesting, but Ready Player One resists that impulse for most of its runtime.īut about three-quarters of the way into the movie, I started to feel extremely uncomfortable, and that discomfort only increased as the movie skidded toward its conclusion. Seeing how the filmmakers - including the novel’s author, Ernest Cline, who co-wrote the screenplay with Zak Penn - conceived of this dystopian future and the simulacrum of a life into which everyone escapes was engaging. Ready Player One can be a lot of fun, especially since its world building is skillful - and it has a lot of worlds to build. Judging by the reactions from the crowd around me at my screening, I missed a lot of the references the movie played largely like a straight-ahead adventure film to me.Īnd for most of the movie, I was into it. I went in cold on purpose, without catching myself up on the book, so I could experience it as a movie without knowing where it was going. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markīut then again, Ready Player One is a big-budget dystopian adventure blockbuster - a genre I love - so it definitely is for me.
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