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Gamer (2009)

Dir. Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor

If Gamer were a mix of three different movies I think they would be The Purge, Gladiator, and Requiem for a Dream. It has Purge’s exploration of human depravity, Gladiator’s hero that rises out of the exploitative death sport, and Requiem’s deep magnification into the ugliness of our faults. This action movie has cool concepts, the performances are pretty good, and there are inventive aspects to the cinematography and editing. So why doesn’t it work?

Gamer is set in a semi-futuristic world where a new technology has allowed this rich developer Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) to override a humans mind so that their bodies can be controlled by others. He uses this tech first in a game named ‘Society’, where you can control a person like if they were your character in The Sims 3. His next game ‘Slayers’ allows the player to override a death row inmate’s body in a first person shooter, kill or be killed scenario. The public outside of the game is going crazy for this game and it has become a worldwide phenomenon. The uber capitalist Castle is making a fortune off this exploitation. The movie is ultra violent and sexually explicit, to a point of uncomfortably. It’s purposefully ugly to highlight the plight of people like the ‘slayer’ Kable (Gerard Butler) or his wife Angie (Amber Valletta) who has to work in ‘Society’. There are many shaky cam scenes in the battle zone and harsh closeups on characters’ body parts (faces, asses, belly rolls, everything), all to be overbearing to the viewer. It’s an exploitative world and the cinematography reflects that, but there are too many inconsistencies or plain mediocre parts in the movie for all the interesting ideas to work together in a cohesive story.

Gamer suffers from a few too many things that make it feel like it lacked a clear vision. Over explanation is one of them. The characters do a lot of telling, not enough showing. There are parts where we are shown the world, instead of told about it, and these are the best in the whole movie. That’s why Ken Castle, as an example, is so unsettling. Not because he’s written as a weirdo, but because he’s a walking talking cliche. Michael C. Hall is a good actor even in this, but he’s just basically written as Dexter (his most famous role) if Dexter were free to act on his murderous urges and his inner monologues were spoken out loud. Kable and Angie are more subtle characters and so come off as more compelling. This movie wants to point out the ugliness/seriousness of a degrading society, but at the same time has moments of parody and hyperbolic personalities (Ludacris, Simon, Castle, Gina Parker) that undercut the point. For example, we are supposed to be convinced that the reporter, Gina Parker, wants to uncover the dirty truth about Castle’s games. Yet, on her show she plays clips of the unethical games while hyping them up. Her demeanor comes off as someone who is having fun in this world, when her actions show that she’s trying to tear it down. These disparities are prevelant throughout. You ask to many times; Why would he do that? Or Why would that happen?

I like to think that the film was extrapolating what can happen to our world if/when automation creates an employment crisis, and if we allow predatory capitalism to dominate our society. In Gamer’s not so distant future, 2010, the people who volunteer to work in the ‘Society’ game are the people who are the most desperate to pay the bills. Banking on the fact that there are not going to be good jobs for a lot of people, the company is able to use people as toys in a sadistic game. It’s an intriguing idea that can be seen as a danger of where we can be heading or an exaggeration of pieces of our existing culture where we exploit people and violence for monetized entertainment, e.g; Footballplayers who get untreated and unacknowledged brain damage, violent media, etc. Also, the film has an underlying theme about the disassociation that virtual reality can cause. There can be a point when we get numb enough to it all that some people find pleasure in the exploitation of others, because of the disconnect between the simulated & real worlds. The images evoke these certain thoughts, but unfortunately the story is too disjointed to feel like it knows what it’s trying to say.

P.S. I recognize The Purge series started after Gamer came out, I was just referring to the certain theme that both films explore.

P.S. (2) The movie is simply worth seeing for the random scene of Michael C. Hall doing a dance number to Sammy Davis Jr.’s song ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’.

[lilchangbinnie]

Fic Recs ❀

okay so, dis gonna be my faves I’ve read recently with a variation of series, oneshots, smuts, fluffs, etc… None are mine, the url of the author will be by the title of the writing. Also, I'm a multifandom hoe so, I’ll try to have a mix of my favorite groups in the list, but for now its mostly exo and bts. Enjoy ya nasties xoxo.

about a girl (8 part series) - @rudeboywonho

dad!namjoon, CEO!namjoon, reader becomes his daughter’s nanny, a little angsty but also fluffly so is worth a read and his daughter is such a gem

vibrations (M) - @seokvie

sub!jimin, ass play, vibrating butt plugs, hot as shit… I’m sweating

owned (12 part series) - @ibangtanthings

reader marries cold rich namjoon to save her family but in the time being, they both get to warm up to each other slowly, angsty at first but has a really heartwarming ending

zipper (M) - @jiminniemouse

bestfriend!jungkook, this boy convinces the reader to watch porn with him and you already know how this ended, obviously smut

buzz (3 part series) (M) - @floralseokjin

it all starts with yoongi bursting into the reader’s room when they were about to masturbate with their new vibrator, smutty as heck

aquiver (3/9 part series) (M) - @floralseokjin

after many attempts to orgasm by himself and failing, yoongi follows namjoon’s advice and goes to a sketchy place for his solution and there he finds the reader

spill the tea - @jae-bummer

reader talks about her feelings about jooheon to his members and he overhears the conversation, cute and funny, kinda short but it’s still one of my faves

where is my mind (M) - @tayegi

werewolf!hoseok, can’t handle himself when he sees you because of his heat but you don’t seem to mind, cute ending

for a good time, call: the horndog (M) - @tayegi

lengthy jimin smut, sex in the studio, hilarious ending

cabin (M) - @krismebaobei

you spend most time with jongin in your stay in the cabin with exo and this makes Chanyeol a bit jealous but when y’all get a moment alone, you let him know you are his, plus a funny ending

class president (M) - @btssmutgalore

“class president candidate jimin would do anything to get your vote” fuck.

captain (M) - @suho-mochi

footballplayer!suho, basically his team loses the game, he’s frustrated and fucks the reader against the lockers, hot shit

sin city (10/? part series) (M) - @btssmutgalore

reader applies and gets a job at sin city, her sweet and dangerous moves make the owner jimin break some of his own rules because of his attraction to her, 10/10 would recommend to anyone in the kpop fandom, favorite series ✩

pop up - @yeolology

teleportor!jongin, you have seen the same boy pop in and out of your life twice and you are devoted on finding him, and you do

watch me (M) - @taecup

jungkook x reader x taehyung, hot as shit, bitch I’m quaking

neither innocent nor guilty (M) - @won-heol

lawyer!wonho, infamous prosecuter Mr.Shin has his eye on the reader during court and he can’t wait to get his hands them even if he just lost the case to her, dAMn

castaway (M) - @kpopfanfictrash

airplane crash au, you’re stranded with Jongin after being the only survivors of the accident and learn how to live with eachother but feelings get caught up in the middle, smut torwards the end, amazing plot

a good day to save lives (4/? part series) - @mxn-yoongi

bts doctor au, nonsense but its pretty funny nonsense, reader is an intern along with jungkook and taehyung while the rest are mostly doctors in different areas

safeguard (3 part series) - @thesammtimes

plushie!jongin, very unique and cute plot, I dream of this happening to me

no strings (10 part series) - @kpopfanfictrash

fuck buddy jimin, from friends with benefits to lovers, fluff ending but has smut throughout the story obviously

nerves (M) - @tayegi

thanks to an experiment the reader’s nervous system is emerged with kim taehyung, weird ass plot but I think its cool, its funny too tbh

higher (9/? part series) - @3kpop2jagi1

really good story, it doesn’t help that i’m suho biased, yixing is my favorite character in the story and if you read it, you’ll know why

taken (11/? part series) - @kimjongdaely

i started reading and now I’m desperate to see how it continues, gangleader!suho, harsh themes & much angst, stockholm syndrome?

go with it (M) - @rapmonluv

sub!namjoon, he expected to have you in the palm of his hand but by the end of the night it turned to be the way around, i need a large holy water after this and you’ll do too

perverted bunny mask (13/? part series) - @btsinned

assassins au, harsh themes (murder, psychopathic tendencies, sexual harassment, etc…) very interesting tho i was waiting for that smut with jungkook

a cinderella story (1/? part series) - @1honeypot

fratboy!yoongi, while you struggle with your crush in real life, little did you know you were sexting him via adult chat

across the hall (3/? part series) - @the-porcelain-doll-xo

neighbour!chanyeol, reader gets tired of her sister pairing her with guys so she lies about having a bf and now is faking a relationship with her cute neighbour

meddling (M) - @ffsjjk  

for once you are grateful for your best friend taehyung and his meddling because it brought you to this gentleman named park jimin 

sexting (M) - @lilyjhs

sex over the phone, you had known jimin in real life as a fuckboy, n u t

who are you? - @8bityeol

reader becomes invested on the anonymous letters of a fan and wants to find him, “happy delight”, the reader is a thriller book writer, I want a mango slaw

rent-a-boyfriend - @jimlingss

your friend hoseok literally rents you a boyfriend for a month to change your dull mood but he isn’t even your type, very fluffly/creative plot

la douleur exquise (M?) - @cinnaminsvga

incubus!yoongi, you summon a demon just for funs and now he’s stuck in the ground half naked and he’s obligated to stay with you until he sexually satisfies you, read it even if you aren’t a yoongi stan, this had me laughing so hard

handmade gold - @btsxexoxtrash

soulmates!jongin, in a world full of people with their true love, you and your boyfriend go against the odds and continue dating and as he finds his soulmate, everything gets tougher but not all hope is lost, angsty fluff, its really good I promise

camera (M) - @exostace

the reader is a cam girl and her friend sehun wants to help her but when practicing what to do when the camera is on, things get hOT, I imagined this very vividly in my mind and I am fukked

temptation (M) - @exostace

fuckboy!chanyeol sends you a dick pic because he got hard thinking of the time you  sucked his dick in Baekhyun’s room, n u t

new nEw NEW!

hey, neighbor - @whimsical-ness

neighbor!baekhyun, reader falls for him, it’s pretty cute

she’s testosterone (2 part series) - @jimlingss

yoonji/yoongi, crack fic, you’re bestfriends with yoonji but later you realise yoonji has a dick, slight smut sprinkled at the end

on the verge (M) - @xhixtape

yoongi suggests the idea of being submissive for once and you both play with the roles, h o t, straight up smut without plot

fantasy (M) -  @xhixtape

optional male bias, reader plays with their bias, cockring and teasingggg

quivering, whimpering (M) - @xhixtape

bestfriend!jungkook, he convinces you to help him out since you like being dominate already, he’s willing to be a good boy for you

 FIC RECS 2 (I made another list)