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August 20, 2021

‘Free Guy' is a videogame version of ‘Truman Show'

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

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In "Free Guy," a bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story.

In upside-down simulations, time loops and videogames turned inside out, a growing body of movies trade on the feeling of living in a false reality — of being a glitch in the matrix. Virtual realities turn real (“Ready Player One”), television sets peel away (“The Truman Show”), dream states don't wake (“Inception”), arcade characters break free (“Wreck-It Ralph”).


 
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