Corey Oren

There are reviews stating that this movie is a piece of woke garbage, and reviews stating that it is a masterpiece, coalescing our shared anxiety during quarantine. I think both ends of the spectrum have missed the point. I see a brilliant human make a valiant effort to expose absurdity of postmodernism and the existential threat of our entire digital existence. It felt like I was witnessing a modern self-immolation. Responses have been human-typical. Hand wringers are expressing concern over his mental health and suggesting a hug and a quick trip to a psychiatrist to get him in smiling shape again. Fearing that this type of existential dread could be contagious (or that they may be tempted to peer over the edge into the void), they hope in the most well-intentioned way, that he feels better soon. The Zoomers must experience pure indulgence. The sense of self importance that they feel.. that because of the insidious promise of connection and fame, the thin digital veil between themselves and Bo has delivered on its promise to provide a way to “express what they have been feeling”, relieving them of the responsibility to have an original experience or expression . The irony of course, is that we are watching a fever -dream of a man being destroyed while begging us to reconsider the entire system that sustains and supports his ego and the fragile ego’s of this generation. The folks dismissing this as Woke garbage. I don’t know what to say.. if you can’t see how he tries to convey the absurdity of woke-fascism, the death of free-expression and individuality in our modern discourse.. you just aren’t very smart or observant.. or both. You should probably be watching something else. You will be wasting your time and precious thought energy on something you will never get. Bo is a really smart guy.. he’s also a very artistically talented guy.. he’s also a guy who has spent a lot of time staring into the void… and he’s a guy who happens to live in a very strange and scary transitional moment in human culture and society. What makes this feel so brilliant and amazing to me, is that this movie could never have existed.. and we all would have kept living and breathing and trying and dying.. but it does.. and it’s beautiful. It’s not a low budget copout emotional expression meme. It’s not woke garbage. It’s not someone who forgot to take his meds. It’s just a gift that nobody expected, but one that should always be cherished.