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READY PLAYER 1 - Notes and Refelction

 Ready Player One

- 2045
- Virtual reality 
- Dirty, trashy surroundings
- The oasis
- License plate Parseval
- Challenge to find 3 coins of the game creator
- What if we went backwards fast – he races backwards and wins the first key
- He and artemis look into the next clue – a creator who hates his own creation 
- They find out that Halliday took Ogdon’s wife on a date – they go to the club he built in oasis right            after that 
- IOI is after Wade after he reveals his name online
- He meets artemis or Samantha in real life
- They try to find the remaining keys 
- Go to movie theater where he went on a date and saw the shining 
- IOI kills aunt Alice
- Sam has to work for IOI
- Everyone trying to find the last key 
- Wade wins and finds it – closes oasis tues and thurs so everyone can live in the real world

I LOVED this movie!!! It was so brilliantly done. First of all, it is eye-opening to see how much people depend on technology in this movie - only 20 or so years into the future. It is a very plausible reality! Especially in our generation. People revolve their life around video games! It is addicting and unhealthy. In the movie, people are all-consumed by the virtual reality, and they cannot open their eyes to their deteriorating, trash-filled earth! It is really sad. Throughout the movie, I found it so interesting how the theme of people hiding behind a screen was portrayed. Our two main characters had not even physically seen each other until more than halfway through the movie. The fact that Aech was a woman was funny, but also portrays this same theme. Even under our real identities, like on instagram, we still find ourselves hiding behind the best photo version of ourselves. Filters, editing, airbrush: it all makes us appear a way that we are not. I think that is an interesting connection to make between Ready Player One and our reality today. 



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