For what an interesting movie this was, I believe Plato would have a significant amount to say. The move as a whole would greatly support the thesis of the majority Plato’s claims that reality is all based off of perception. All of the participating characters who were submerged into the world of “Trancendenz” whole heartedly believed what became their new, yet shortly lived reality. The thought I had frequently while observing the film led me back to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The similarity between that and the men who believed shadows on a cave wall to be reality is a fact I could not ignore. All of the participating characters took on the new reality whole heartedly. It wasn’t until the game was approaching its end that the characters began to question if they were still in the game, or back in their own reality.
One other parallel I noticed was when the characters inside of the game would ask “are we back?” really asking if the game was over, reminded me of the man who escaped the cave, saw the “real” world for the first time, then went back to the men still captive in the cave to tell them of his findings. Both scenes depict a disconnect between what is their belief is compared to what might possibly be true reality. If you probe further you can find that again they share a moment of disbelief. As in Allegory of the Cave the other men who were receiving news of a new unseen world were hesitant and defensive to believe it could be true. As were the characters in Trancendenz who were programed to convince the game players they were back in reality several times.
Further that, I don’t believe Plato would find anything to his own liking. The entire game is a work of art. It is a creation with intention to withdraw people from reality. The movie in total was somewhat hard to understand, and took a lot of conversation to break down where characters were in moments of time. With several different questions of where was reality and where was the game, Pluto would be utterly mortified to see such a plot be turned into what i’m sure the creator intended to be ART.
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I like your connection to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the film because of the different realties the film portrays and links to Plato’s way of thinking and shows the multiple layers of reality and his way of interpreting art form. The connection to the men in the cave and the players in the movie shows the difference to who knows whats real and how easily people can be fooled by this reality.
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