Sources:
Windows XP interface
Google Search
8MM movie
Release Date: February 26th, 1999
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener,
Peter Stormare, Anthony Heald, Myra Carter, Jacklyn Lick, Chris Bauer, Bob
Clendenin
Director: Joel Schumacher (Batman & Robin, Flawless, Tigerland; coming up
next are Phone Booth, Chasing the Dragon: The Veronica Guerin Story and
Dare)
Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en, Brainscan, Sleepy Hollow;
cowriter of Hideaway)
Premise: A widow discovers an 8-millimeter amateur movie in her husband's
safe, which she is horrified to discover is a "snuff film". Snuff films are
very specific forms of pornography in which one of the performers, usually
women, are killed on film. Seeking some answers, she hires a private
investigator. What she wants to know is where the movie came from, and what
her husband had to do with it. The P.I. meets a young man named Max
California who serves as his guide into this underworld of sex and death.
As he begins to investigate this bizarre perversion, he finds his sanity
slipping, and the people who made the film are after him.
Message:
View of reality through a PC interface. The situation portrayed is
impossible; we cannot control the actions of any human being through a
computer, yet the contents that can be found on the internet are horrific
with no supervision. As bad as they may be, their source is still pain
caused to a person in reality.
The picture in the center represents reality, a reality that is violent.
The only answer to the murder of the girl was ''Because he could''. This
scene shows the 'moral hero' stand in front of the man who sat and watched
the girl get murdered in the same room they are in.
The 'hero' has a ''holy aura'' from the window in the background but there
is nothing holy about him, he himself is about to commit murder.
The white squares represent the 'windows' that open in a Windows
interface.
Google is an internet search engine that is known to find anything.
Internet contents can be criticized, but reality still has much more
violence to offer when focusing on pornography. The movie itself shows many
places in which very specific pornography can be found, none of which is
distributed on the internet. The real hardcore is found on 8MM film, a real
life media (seen in the upper left frame).
המציאות הנו מקרי בהחלט. אין צוות האתר ו/או
הנהלת האתר אחראים לנזק, אבדן, אי נוחות, עגמת
נפש וכיו''ב תוצאות, ישירות או עקיפות, שייגרמו
לך או לכל צד שלישי בשל מסרים שיפורסמו
ביצירות, שהנם באחריות היוצר בלבד.