{"title": "Ready Player One is about Privacy, Digital Rights and Ageism", "timestamp": 1754998875.0578141, "description": "A lot of people have a mixed bag of feelings when it comes to [Steven Spielberg]()'s 2018 masterpiece *Ready Player One*. They dislike the nostalgia bait, and the countless references. They poke fun at logical inconsistencies. Yet nobody can deny the fact that Spielberg apparently is incapable of making a terrible movie. Still, how many of you actually looked at *Ready Player One* seriously? How many of you thought about it's messaging? How many noticed the politics that Spielberg is hiding in plain sight?", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. 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In Minority Report ( which strangely has similar themes to this movie ), Spielberg made a very cool cut towards the end of the film. We see the face of Tom Cruise going left-to-right, cut to, a face of one of the pre-cogs going left-to-right in a different location and time. The way the two shots were staged, made them a perfect example of Spielberg's sense of flow.\r\n\r\nWhen you have a movie with such superb sense of flow, breakage of it is noticeable. That can be used as a tool for tension. *Fade to black*", "username": "Troler", "id": 0, "timestamp": 1784757164.2704427, "p_index": {"2": 5}}, {"text": "> in Shazam! 2 there was a serious issue when it came to visual effects \r\n\r\nThat's because Sandberg said \"I can do VFX myself\"", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1784758011.1091154, "p_index": {"2": 9}}, {"text": "> Apart from him ( and James Cameron ) there is nobody else who comes close to his ability to use visual effects.\r\n\r\nRiddley Scott?", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1784758103.3863106, "p_index": {"2": 9}}, {"text": "> In the world we live in today, with social media and video games being such a huge part of our lives, yet in the same time being that corporate profit squeezing machine that never cares about you, Ready Player One is rather profound balanced look on the issue. Spielberg is not saying that video games are evil because they have micro-transactions or ads or even mass surveillance built into them. He agrees that video-games are in fact art. And there is something good about it. Yet he still agrees that all those other things I mentioned are really bad things.\r\n\r\nLet's not forget Freeman", "username": "Troler", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1784758340.767738, "p_index": {"2": 17}}, {"text": "> And think about this even more. The whole character arc of the main character Wade, is that he starts as this clueless idiot enjoying a game. And end up understanding the real life implications of a powerful technology. He joins the forces of resistance, because he ends up understating why they matter. And this is a cinematic technique to get people ( who identify with Wade in the beginning of the film, aka gamers ) to become freedom fighters, like what Wade becomes in the end.\r\n\r\nI swear, Wade is a play on Dark WADEr", "username": "Troler", "id": 4, "timestamp": 1784758554.9870358, "p_index": {"2": 23}}, {"text": "c:4\r\n\r\n@Troler Wade a second...", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 5, "timestamp": 1784758578.2417905, "p_index": {}}, {"text": "> And then there is Zhou ( Philip Zhao ), a literal 11 year old kid on the team of the resistance. I remember the first time I watched the film in the cinema, back in 2018, and saw the reveal of Zhou's real face, being this kid. I remember that people in the auditorium yelled at me to shut the fuck up, because I couldn't hold myself and probably yelled something along the lines of \"I love you Steve\".\r\n\r\nWade, that's homo", "username": "Troler", "id": 6, "timestamp": 1784758632.6463473, "p_index": {"2": 27}}]}, "hashtags": ["readyplayerone", "stevenspielberg", "film", "review", "movies", "cinemastodon", "privacy", "digitalrights", "eff", "fsf", "richardstallman", "ageism"], "not_ai_proof": "", "tab": "reviews", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/ready_player_one_is_about_privacy__digital_rights_and_ageism", "collections": ["steven_spielberg_reviews"], "languages": {}, "warning": "", "likes": ["Troler"]}