The best movie about AI and the senseless fight against it (because of loops): it doesn't show it, it does it like it.
Within an artificial world - a set on display - the movie tells a story about a permanent, probably hopeless search for escape. And on an aesthetic level, this is only done by means of quotations, probably every scene is a quotation. Even the big escapism scene on drugs turns into a Raphaelian choreography. Metaphorically, the hopelessness…
William Friedkin did "The Exorcist" seven years earlier, think this is an obvious hint that he is kind of obsessed.
Seven years after exorcist W. F. again fell in love with the thought that a devil floats around and takes possession of people. Here he is floating around in the gay scene – doesn't matter.
While watching this movie maybe something should be remembered: the film just marks a certain period of time. The spirit is going on. There is…
The creators of the Simulation are those who live illusional. The humans in the Simulation actually live like they do in reality. So maybe the surrounding isn‘t that important. It‘s more about how you deal with that what ist called reality.
So the movie discusses a question about media and the real world: If there exist things like a free will in the real world – why shouldn't they exist as well in the media-world (for example in the internet)?
The movie shows a very ambivalent perspective of the task media/simulation vs. human beings.
