{"id":14118,"date":"2021-03-29T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2021-03-28T09:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:04:54","slug":"a-glitch-in-the-matrix-2021-rodney-ascher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14118","title":{"rendered":"A Glitch in the Matrix (2021, Rodney Ascher)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fun to interview people as their online avatars about the idea that we&#8217;re living in a simulation, and promising to structure around Philip K. Dick&#8217;s visions.  A change since <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9045\">Room 237<\/a><\/em> is inviting skeptics into the room &#8211; Chris Ware has a more reasonable outlook than the gamer kidz, and one woman says their ideas are &#8220;school shooter mentality,&#8221; which would make PKD a School Shooter Jesus.  Pretty early I started thinking these guys all have protagonist syndrome, and this plays out in the end, when a <em>Matrix<\/em>-obsessed trenchcoat kid kills his parents, the movie ruined for me as it lets him monologue about his cool murders.  Music by the Clipping guy, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/glitch.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun to interview people as their online avatars about the idea that we&#8217;re living in a simulation, and promising to structure around Philip K. Dick&#8217;s visions. A change since Room 237 is inviting skeptics into the room &#8211; Chris Ware has a more reasonable outlook than the gamer kidz, and one woman says their ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,93,2380,1773,1606],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-documentary","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-rodney-ascher","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14143,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}