Reviews

The movie follows the lives of three users and the impact on which the game Second Life has on their lives. A very interesting premise but yet they seemed to chose a bunch of adulterers, victim of molestation, and a "business entrepreneur" who lives off the money she makes in Second Life.

Now I get why they chose those people, they wanna pique the audience's interest. But seriously? They could have at least chosen someone who had a normal life and documented how it affected them, not videotape someone who clearly has a lot of problems. Not all users who play the game are like those three y'know.

Well, aside from those things, the documentary was pretty intent on trying to ward off future players. It's like they think that this new "Internet thing" is making us addicted. Just because those three people play like 10-18 hours a day doesn't mean everyone does. Sheesh. The documentary acts like any other media does when faced with something technologically new, it tries to find the negative aspects.

The first user is a married woman who thinks she found true love in the game. She meets with the partner who is (surprise, surprise) from Canada. The two seemed to get along well in the game but in real life things don't go as smoothly. They both get a divorce from their respective spouses, hoping that their true love will conquer all. But as any relationship that started in the internet, it didn't work out and the dude left her. Like she didn't expect that to happen.

The second one is a woman who passes off her time in Second Life as a career. She actually makes money within the game. Now that's some smart moves. She's happy because she stays at home, plays video games and gets paid. What could be sweeter than that? But her life won't turn out to be perfect when she encounters an obstacle which I'm not going to spoil for you.

The third one is rather the most interesting of the three. His avatar is a little girl...now, now, before you start asking questions, no he's not a pedophile. He says that the reason his avatar is a girl is because he feels that in every man there's a woman inside and in every woman there's a man. Trouble brews from his personal life; his fiancée is planning on leaving the guy because he plays Second Life all night and barely sleeps (and maybe because they barely have sex?). He tries to reconcile with her and we found out a dark secret of his past.

So, huh, I just gave the summary for the movie. Not much of a review, eh? No matter, weirdness aside the movie was really stupid since it, like I said before, only showed the negative aspects of the game. How about showing the positive ones? I don't know about you guys but man, my rant is tiring. I'll wrap things up with a single sentence: Oprah, you suck.

Oh yeah, Rosie O'Donnel's in the movie. Heh.