Relaxer (2018)

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Siskoid
Joshua Burge can't help but accept a challenge in the never relaxing 2018 Potrykus flick Relaxer, so he finds himself stuck to a couch until he beats Nintendo's issue of Pac-Man. Y'know, before the Y2K bug destroys his ability to play the console. What unfolds is more about surviving while never getting up from one's seat than it is about the video game itself, and it's taken to such extremes that it becomes rather hallucinatory. Is it happening anywhere but in his head? I don't self-identify as a gamer - I got months, if not years, between bouts of video gaming - but I know what it's like to obsess over something and not seeing the time go by. At the darkest limits of that reality are stories of gamers who died in front of their TV (it doesn't matter if it's real or urban legend). Burge's character Abbie is visited by various others who try to prevent him from succeeding, mostly unlikable jerks which annoy the audience as much as they do Abbie and that's a minus for the film. A plus is that you've never seen this story and you don't know where it's going. Another personal apocalypse set in slackerdom from Potrykus, and it amusingly seems to be set in the same universe as The Alchemist Cookbook. 1 year 6 months ago
lawbat
One of the oddest movies I've ever watched. Definitely unique. 2 years 4 months ago