Technical fantasy that falls in love with outdated
On the handmade VHS videotape, there is a living room shelves. It took a lot of time to watch late -night horror movies and radio programs recorded in the settings formed by three stacked CTR TV sets. The simulatory library stored in this irritating novel and short image on the tape is part of the reference in “OBEX”. This is a melancholy depression. The skepticism of melancholy is the aesthetic concept of LO-Fi in black and white.
Regarding the danger of finding comfort on the screen, the ingenious fantasy that avoids the connection of meat and blood is the product of the close art partnership between Birney. Writer and editor. Bernie and OHS are behind the visual effects most humble but enthusiastic. The result of their common art labor is equal to the retro luster, which is a special world construction. This is a hand -made movie theater.
Conor is a secluder who lives “re -drawing” photos on its MAC computer with symbols, and will not even leave home to grocery. Instead, his neighbor Callie Hernandez helped this task. Thesing sound outside his door was shockingly reminiscent of the prosperity and overwhelming world outside his isolated kingdom.
Nevertheless, Conor is still desire not only the audience in the media he consumes, but also submitted a video of himself and Sandy in order to create and insert into the digital version and insert it into a new interactive computer game called OBEX. middle. One night, Sandy disappeared after playing the basic (disappointing) soft disk adventure game with pixels (disappointing). The culprit is Ixaroth. It is a digital devil. Its corpses are made of blind and flashing light. Although the design of its mask is directly from Bernie's previous imagination “Strawberry Building” (co -directed with Kentucker Audley), the constitution of Ixaroth Macaoros Carlos Reygadas A radical “Tenebras Tenebras Lux” has a keratin entity surfaced because it hovers in roaming. Conner's home. In order to rescue his beloved puppies, Bernie's lonely character must enter the fantastic medieval field of Obex, where the strange creatures lived there and defeated Isaroas in his castle.
“OBEX” shared some wiring with Jane Schoenbrun's “I Seeing TV Elow”. The seductive films of the peculiar films warned how obsession with the media hinders people's stance on reality-although the latter will adventure into a dazzling terrain when dealing with depressed identities. In these two cases, the directors and their obvious worship of the entertainment of their entertainment, and that life can only be a simulator on the screen, not a substitute for alternatives to survival.
It contains more than “Strawberry Luxury Mansion”, but “OBEX” has similar broad ideas and makes sense for the modern times. Whether in front of his monitor or vertical TV totem, Conor will seek endless distraction from here and now. Even if it is more cumbersome, the outdated technology of Bernie and OHS full of love has the same purpose, and it may cause similar damage to the mobile phone in today's pockets. However, of course, it is the danger of their direct nature and the global coverage of the Internet that make these current micro -machine portals an unspeakable abyss. The taper of the open eyes show that one day, everyone will live in a computer, and can only say: If you only know.
Birney entered the dream of Conor and the darkest depression in the nightmare. In the interesting scene, he realized his fear and forced him to become a hero of his story. In addition to the fanatic clothing and environmental manufacturing, OHS's monochrome lens hangs from a striking artificial background in a certain position between the past and present. This is a film that is willing to accept all its auxiliary restrictions, because it makes up for them ten times with creativity.
During his pursuit of Sandy-a synthesizer soared by Josh Dibb to recognize the film's DNA-Conor in the 1980s. Conor talked to him about his late parents, and Victor dreamed of a paradise. We stared at a few hours of equipment to have the opportunity to turn the script and observe humans. When Victor asked Conor's ideal paradise, his simple answer highlighted the simplicity and beauty of the real thing and what he had been lacking for a long time. The way of operating since the time on OBEX land has also been different-the speed of movement is faster than the real world-it is face-to-face with his dying death.
Birney's performance, as a computer's strange manner, was originally satisfied with the epitome he built on himself, just standing out for the whole journey, becoming a brave, relying on the serious innocence of his spread. That “OBEX” is not looking for romantic navigation, making it more correlated and unexpected. Of course, Sandy provided comfort and companionship, but Conner's battle was with him. Instead of trying to meet his emotional needs through external means, the real mission of traveling through OBEX is interested in life games.