Wagner James Au / New World Notes

For Metaverse movie night, two new movies are available for streaming. The first above, A Glitch in the Matrix, is a documentary that explores the concept dramatized by the Wachowski siblings' movies and raised decades ago by Philip K. Dick:

We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs. We would have the overwhelming impression that we were re-living the present – déjà vu – perhaps in precisely the same way: hearing the same words, saying the same words. I submit that these impressions are valid and significant, and I will even say this: such an impression is a clue, that in some past time-point, a variable was changed – re-programmed as it were – and that because of this, an alternative world branched off.

An idea more recently raised by Elon Musk, but here's my take to Elon's musky version of that theory. Still the movie itself looks pretty eerie and thought-provoking. Also notable and unsurprising for Second Life and VRChat players, it features a furry.

Coincidentally (or not!), there's a new narrative movie on the same topic starring Selma Hayek and Owen Wilson — this is Bliss:

As Owen might say, "Wow". Actually this might be the only movie where he doesn't say "Wow". (Seriously watch this insane supercut.) Wriiten and directed by Mike Cahill who also co-wrote and directed the acclaimed indie movie Another Earth, so maybe I can convince my wife to make this our date night movie stream. (Then again, Rotten Tomatoes suggests maybe she'll say nix.)

If you do watch either, please report your take back here!