AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

ethanauringer The most obvious theme here is TECHNOLOGY. Jenny willingly sends in her physiological evaluation and all requested vitals to an organization which she knows nothing about. We later find out that a younger participant in the program uses this information about Jenny's fears and physiological traits such as her empathy and sympathy against her. She uses this to scare the crap out of Jenny but also gain her trust as Jenny "adopted" Cassandra as a younger sister. Jenny tries to "humanize" Cassandra as she lacks many human traits due to being trapped in an augmented reality education system where she is also deprived of normal human conversations. This brings us to our second theme, EDUCATION. In the opening scene, we see a news interview discussing the state that our education system is in. The anchor listens to a man talk about how our education system in the U.S. is awful compared to those in China and other military power houses. This film really depicted the society we would live in if we adopted those all-informative, social interaction-lacking schools. This interview could also act as a foreshadow for the rest of the film. The school system may have changed in response of a request to increase the complexity of our education system. "If it's not broke, don't fix it." Arial even says the children aren't encouraged to communicate with each other unless it is necessary. That sounds like a joke to me. This is why these kids are so desensitized. The name of the program is actually called the POSTERITY PROJECT. It should be pretty obvious that education is a huge part of this film. Another theme I have discovered is THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY. Jenny is trapped in the virtual world so long, that she fights for her life in it. She doesn't realize that death in an augmented reality world wouldn't result in death in the real world. Maybe if she died in the augmented reality world she'd come back to reality. I think this film relates to the Black Mirror episode Playtest (also on Netflix). The episode Playtest also had a program that used your weaknesses to attack you in your most vulnerable spots, just as Cassandra did to Jenny. Jenny seems to be confused of what is reality and what is augmented reality. The next theme is CURIOSITY. This one is another obvious one. Jenny walks into the Posterity Project and puts on glasses that she hasn't been instructed to put on or even informed about. This starts Jenny's nightmare. Let's hit another theme, HELPLESSNESS. This shower scene which everyone is confused about doesn't relate to the plot at all. It relates to Jenny's soft spot. Helplessness, she knows the feeling so very well. She watched her dad die right in front of her knowing she couldn't do anything to stop it. We see another instance where helplessness is exemplified towards the end of the movie when the chaperones stumble upon what seemed to be a previous chaperone trapped in a locked room. There seems to be a way to get him out as there is a puzzle attached to the door, but Darby and the others find out the hard way that there was no possible way to help the man. This could've also made the augmented reality more "real" for Jenny as this feeling of helplessness has proven itself in the real world as well. Boom, another theme, FALSE SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT. When the 3 chaperones hear the voice over the intercom as soon as they break the ice, the voice uses positive, reinforcing words and phrases such as "Congratulations", and telling the chaperones that they are part of "saving our country's future". Tiggs even creates a sense of false accomplishment by saying being selected for the program makes her feel safe and important. But who knows, the other 2 chaperones could just be a part of the simulation too. The last theme I have found in the film so far is TRUST. Cassandra knows that the best way to gain someone's trust is to relate to them but also completely differ from them if that makes any sense. Familiar is comfortable, but opposites attract.. As soon as the 3 chaperones get put into the simulation, Jenny has to trust the other chaperones because they're the only ones she can relate too. Everything and everyone else is extremely unfamiliar and could be seen as a threat. This was probably in the film to create a sense of comfort for Jenny as it would be one of the most uncomfortable situations she'd ever experience. Cassandra used the method of relating and differing from Jenny that I talked about earlier as Jenny and Cassandra were always the odd ones out. They were always left out from the group. She also differed from Jenny in the way that Cassandra was a genius and Jenny couldn't even imagine what it would be like to live as a child prodigy. In summary, this film has many themes that take time to discover but hold great meaning. Confusing isn't always bad, it just means that you haven't acquired the knowledge to understand or appreciate something yet. Everything you'll every read or watch has great meaning and a purpose behind it. So if you found this movie confusing, watch it again, and again, and again until you've finally found a meaning that relates to you, and share it with people because that is how the education system should work. Our minds should flourish from the generosity and knowledge of others.

rumpsavage THIS MOVIE is a defiled piece of trash garbage. I read a review saying that it was one of those "see it twice movies" and seeing it once has put me in the ICU. I think the writers wrote this movie at the age of 13 after their teacher, Ms. Dumb Dumb, made them read the hit novel 1984. It was as if Ms. Dumb Dumb had asked the class to write a movie, and she picked the groups. Two kids got paired up and didn't know each other so they didn't work on it until they realized that it was due the next day so they had to ask their mom and dad to drive them to Staples so they could get some poster board and glitter in order to finish the project. They got an F. This movie is an F. I hope whoever thought this movie was a good idea to make realizes they wasted a lot of time and money on a lazy, uninspired piece of film poo poo. 1/10 -Michael Douglas

SnoopyStyle Jenny (Elizabeth Morris) is struggling with money and caring for her bedridden mother. She gets hired along with Tiggs (Kara Tointon) and Darby (Elliot James Langridge) as chaperons in an underground facility. She is surprised to learn the subjects are little children being trained in a learning program with augmented reality. Everybody has to wear special glasses to see. There is the AI named Arial (Jamie Bernadette) to assist the newcomers. There are no other adults around. The kids communicate through the virtual reality and remains silent except for Cassandra (Isabelle Allen) who befriends Jenny.The movie is mostly filmed in the first person POV through those augmented reality glasses. As long as there are two or more people in the scene, it can switch back and forth almost like a regular movie. It's not until Jenny is alone that the movie is forced to be a solo camera affair. The camera restrictions and the glasses on everybody do distant the audience from the acting. I don't think the acting is bad but it is constrained. On the other hand, there is an opening rant that screams cheesy B-movie. The over-the-top acting there needs to be cut.One of the problem is that these are kids with no real superpowers. Nobody picks up a weapon, or even a stick. It's obvious the augmented reality could be compromised by the kids from the beginning. This is literally a horror that could be solved by a simple flashlight. It would be more compelling to have the augmented reality forced on them like an injected microchip. I kept thinking they should take off those glasses and light up the situation through another means. There is also a twist that is obvious from the start. It's completely expected and I simply waited for it to happen. The only positive is that the augmented reality looks fine especially if you compare it to the spartan bunker setting.

Bloodmane 'Stupid' sums it up. I won't even waste time trying to explain why. It simply is. It was one of those films that I keep watching just in the hope that it will improve. In this instance, it didn't. I'd sooner re-watch Mill of the Stone Women or the 4-D Man.Eighty-two wasted minutes of my life I'll never get back. Really struggling to find anything good to say about it. Who sets up a research facility like that? (Don't want to include spoilers here.) This was supposed to be built around augmented reality. Can't say I thought they'd done even a poor job of it.Stay away. Just stay away.