This movie got me thinking about the glorification of geek culture and about the future. Full disclosure I have not read the book (yet! though I did enjoy the movie enough to add the book to my reading list.) but have really enjoyed the movie as a send-up too the geek subculture I consider myself part of. Is it a great movie? In my opinion it is a little on the silly side but has some great themes and undercurrents it never fully explores. But more on the subject of the future, do we really know what we are doing? If the future is VR: be it a matrix style body enhancement based cyberpunk dystopia or a bunch of idiots running on treadmills trying to out reference the rest of a irony driven culture in it's need to glorify the emotional bond we cultivate too what is still essentially commodities of a capitalist society that still feels it has a right to put a price tag on our dreams. The scary part about all of this is that their is no one putting a key for us to find in the game we are making our lives into. their is no Easter egg escape out of the corner we are painting ourselves into. We have reached a point where our reach exceeds our understanding. The thing is, their are only so many ideas? so many variants of spiritual DNA and fewer and fewer people are born into owning them. This is the scariest observation I took from the movie: at what point does our consciousness become intellectual property of a system that is not worried about our survival. It may sound silly but we as a species have founded our society on slavery and indentured labor. How hard is it to believe that we are going full circle as a culture to the belief that an entitled class has a right to everything even the very way you choose to live your life. The one scene i truly loved in ready player one was the scene where twisted sisters we're not going to take started playing and their was a a massive uprising against the powers that be. capitalism tells us we can get what we earn but it is decided by people who did not earn it. and the ones who didn't earn it designate what we have to prove to be worthy of even getting something as simple as what we need. the "we're not going to take it" scene was the equivalent of opium being fed to us so that we do not act on our first impulse and and take it, all of it. something tells me to end this on a high note like: Ready Player One. but let's face it none of you care and life as we know it is already over.
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