Virtual Reality Doug
For some reason, this line about Doug’s 1st Movie in Ebert’s review of The Matrix pops into my head every few months:
What happens then to the billions who have just been “unplugged” from the Matrix? Do they still have jobs? Homes? Identities? All we get is an enigmatic voice-over exhortation at the movie’s end. The paradox is that the Matrix world apparently resembles in every respect the pre-Matrix world. (I am reminded of the animated kid’s film “Doug’s 1st Movie,” which has a VR experience in which everything is exactly like in real life, except more expensive.)
That always sounded funny.









