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Free Guy
Or how a popular movie can help Americans to free themselves.
For Americans, everything is a threat. From China and Russia to Venezuela and Cuba, all countries not following American rule are a threat.
UFOs, UAPs, and Aliens are also a threat. Even wild cats are a threat.
How do Americans react to a threat? They buy guns.
Those who buy guns are also a threat to which others.
So, Americans live in fear the whole life and from generation to generation. And the only reason for it is that the weaponry industry rules society and politics from a distance.
Well, there is this guy, Free Guy (played by Ryan Reynolds), and this movie Free Guy, based on the online games apparatus where the real players drive avatars around Free City.
For a glimpse of the movie, the avatars driven by real players wear sunglasses, which everyone else (NPCs)in the game does not. These NPC(non-player characters) are no more than figurants in the game until Free Guy emerges as a wishful being. Its AI algo is so good that he starts to feel that it(he) is more than a filling-in character. At a given time it(he) grabs a par of sun-glasses and begins to see what no one else sees( I remember witnessing this paradox in “Blindness” a movie following the book of the same…
