Gamer
08 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment
Gamer is rated R, for strong language, nudity, adult situations, and violence
Imagine a world where you can control another human beings, though your gaming system. On the surface it sounds kind of cool, however the movie digs into how easy it is to dehumanize another humans. In the movie, this dehumanizing takes the form of treating the people in the two games. The first game is a more realistic take off of second life, where you can literally manipulate the actions of another human being. The other game, called Slayers, allows you to control a death row inmate.
I enjoyed the move, but only from an ethical and moral stand point. From what I could see the movie, bought up the importance of free will, and what happens when we give it up.
One of the people in the second life game, is being controlled by a sloppy pervert. The Pervert is making the women do things that suet his test, rather then thinking about her humanity.
The boy how is controlling one of the inmates in the game Slayers, thinks that the game is cool. There is nothing cool about the game and the inmate, that the boy is controlling tells him the people in the game are “… real humans … .”. If the death row inmate was able to realize, the importance of his own humanity, and the humanity of the other people being controlled by gamers. Why couldn’t the pervert understand that, and why did it take the boy so long to understand it as well? It all comes down to objectifying the people who’s lives they where manipulating in the game and being manipulated in the game. When we strip away what makes some one human, for the sake of pornography, war games ( using real people as puppets ) or any number of other things, we come to a point where we can no longer see the human beings.
“Right now it’s the despite ones convicts addicts, the sick the poor. The ones that fell though the cracks.” Who are participating in the second life game. They are doing this, because in the movie, the money is good and they need the money. It is easy to take advantage of the most vulnerable members of society or to hate people on death row. However since we are all called to love one another, even though it is hard, we all have to do our best to see each other as human beings.
