A Glitch in the Matrix

Name: A Glitch in the Matrix
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 5, 2021
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Alex Levine, Erik Davis, Jesse Orion, Joshua Cooke, Laeo Mystwood

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: February 5, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Alex Levine, Erik Davis, Jesse Orion, Joshua Cooke, Laeo Mystwood, Nick Bostrom, Paul Gude, Philip K. Dick

Summary: What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237, THE NIGHTMARE) uses a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down the rabbit hole of science, philosophy, and conspiracy theory. Leaving no stone unturned in exploring theWhat if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237, THE NIGHTMARE) uses a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down the rabbit hole of science, philosophy, and conspiracy theory. Leaving no stone unturned in exploring the unprovable, the film uses contemporary cultural touchstones like THE MATRIX, interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a wide array of voices, expert and amateur alike. If simulation theory is not science fiction but fact, and life is a video game being played by some unknowable entity, then who are we, really? A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX attempts to find out.… Expand

Director: Rodney Ascher

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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The Playlist Chris Barsanti

Feb 1, 2021

Ascher’s appropriately discombobulating stew of queasiness, comedy, and terror seems well-cued to the subject matter, even while missing a certain editorial sharpness that might have brought some of its notions into greater clarity. Read full review

John DeFore

Jan 31, 2021

Though it leaves some avenues underexplored and gives a bit too much attention to the sci-fi landmark name-checked in its title, the film makes for engrossing, sometimes unsettling viewing. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jan 31, 2021

Rodney Ascher is a sly master of mining potentially jokey or gimmicky subjects for the alienation they primordially express. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Jan 31, 2021

A Glitch In The Matrix unfolds as a flood of exposition and conjecture, accompanied by a gaudy infotainment montage of video-game footage, movie excerpts, and computer-animated recreations. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Feb 3, 2021

Rodney Ascher directed Glitch. He’s best known for Room 237 (2012), an inspired look at several bizarre theories about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980). Glitch ups the ante on that documentary and then some. It looks at a bizarre theory about everything. The result is lively, playful, and busy — in a very good way. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Feb 9, 2021

It’s a messy, mind-blowing collision of philosophy, technology, religion and fruit-loop paranoia which, while it doesn’t exactly make a watertight case, does provide a fascinating, and in one case deeply disturbing, insight into the thought processes of those who believe it. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Feb 15, 2021

A Glitch in the Matrix’s incuriosity and unstructured approach to its material at best mirror its subjects’ modes of thinking; at worst, it is little more than a voyeuristic freak show. Read full review

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sexisnice

Jun 22, 2021

A truly cool concept that fuses religion and spirituality with simulation theory and that what you see is partly due to a program that has been put by someone. It shows how deeply sophisticated and connected we as human beings are and could lead people to believe that howook on the exteriorA truly cool concept that fuses religion and spirituality with simulation theory and that what you see is partly due to a program that has been put by someone. It shows how deeply sophisticated and connected we as human beings are and could lead people to believe that howook on the exterior reflects from the interior and that is what is meant to be is meant to be like fate… Expand

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Brent_Marchant

Mar 6, 2021

Is our reality a genuine phenomenon unto itself, or is it the product of some elaborate computer-generated program? While this is a question that's fundamentally impossible to answer at this point in time, it nevertheless raises an intriguing possibility under the heading of "simulationIs our reality a genuine phenomenon unto itself, or is it the product of some elaborate computer-generated program? While this is a question that's fundamentally impossible to answer at this point in time, it nevertheless raises an intriguing possibility under the heading of "simulation theory," a subject explored in varying degrees of success in this visually captivating and often-mesmerizing documentary. The content of director Rodney Ascher's big "what if" offering could use better focus in spots (especially in the anecdotal and speculative testimony of its avatar-costumed "witnesses"), and the film could definitely stand to place less emphasis on the dark side of its subject matter (particularly in a questionable and overlong recounting of the role it played in a troubling criminal case). However, when it comes to examining such notions as deja vu, synchronicities and the Mandela effect, as well as the influential writings of such profound thinkers as Plato and author Philip K. Dick, particularly in the roles that they have played in the development of this notion, the film is truly at its best. For the skeptical out there, it may be easy to chalk up this material to stoner nonsense, silly speculation or oh so much intellectual masturbation, and those with such an outlook would be wise to skip this one and mull over their close-minded ideas in seclusion. But, for those who are amenable to opening their minds to potentially revolutionary perspectives on the nature of existence, this is a good primer. The implications, from things as simple as creating better video games to as complex as better understanding the very functioning of reality, are potential startling and exciting. And who would want to miss out on that?… Expand

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JLuis_001

Feb 19, 2021

I went on and on hearing about the depth of the theory this documentary explores, and how you question your reality so much that it's inevitable to think that nothing we experience is real.

Verdict? Nah, reality just sucks, and that's it, and that's how it has been since the dawn ofI went on and on hearing about the depth of the theory this documentary explores, and how you question your reality so much that it's inevitable to think that nothing we experience is real.

Verdict? Nah, reality just sucks, and that's it, and that's how it has been since the dawn of mankind, we've only evolved so much technologically as to get to the point where we still have to question that, and surprisingly for too many, reaching that resolution is still impossible.

What I see in this story is something that I've seen in many other situations involving religion and spirituality, and that's the fear of people's own irrelevance.
To understand that most likely your life, or rather the act of living, means absolutely nothing once your body and mind expire.
And that's a terrifying concept for billions of people, so they look for other answers instead of facing that crude reality.

That's what A Glitch in the Matrix is: People who took something very seriously that just isn't there.… Expand

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MATM

Aug 22, 2021

If you insist on watching “A Glitch in the Matrix”, make sure to turn it off after the first 30 minutes. That was as long as it managed to have anything of interest to say, and from that point on it was just killing time by letting people with absolutely no expertise in the field prattle onIf you insist on watching “A Glitch in the Matrix”, make sure to turn it off after the first 30 minutes. That was as long as it managed to have anything of interest to say, and from that point on it was just killing time by letting people with absolutely no expertise in the field prattle on with their meaningless accounts. I give it a D, just don’t bother.… Expand

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BigBubb

Feb 13, 2021

Another time wasting and ludicrous documentary that we are somehow living in a simulation.

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