A futuristic drama about a virtual reality technology device that gets a slick entrepreneur into trouble with the law. This is before YouTube when it seemed quite bizarre that people would film insane pranks like robberies and assaults just for kicks (and mega hits on the Internet).
The backdrop of the film is a big city wrecked with random violence that police have no hope of ever controlling. This is a world where morality has lost all influence. Sound familiar?
The last straw (in realville) is gay rights and it’s subversive influence on family values, the church, family cohesiveness, sexual identity, and political correctness — one group undermining the entire social order. The result is the total, irreversible chaos depicted in this film.
When I first saw this film a decade ago it was scary but not very realistic. Now it’s so realistic as to be terrifying. All the action video games have far more violence and sexuality, but not the hellish bite.
The Supreme Court over ruled lower courts to lift the sales ban on these games to minors of any age. Washington itself is far more horrifying in comparison.
The old computer adage applies here: Garbage in, garbage out. We fill kid’s heads full of random violence, hate crimes, and death with no consequences — and we get the same crap when they are adults in positions of responsibility: bad parents, bad husbands, child molesting mothers, and bad citizens in every possible way.
I’m always amazed at the extent to which cops in the movies go to solve crimes involving the most inconsequential people. They pursue high profile targets, sure, but only to get the DA points at election time.
Criminal prosecution is nothing more than a triage any more.
You prosecute the crimes that are easily solved first and with a good chance of getting a conviction and file the others away.
