The film plays a part in Plato hierarchical scheme of reality where the virtual reality game is the same as Platos “flawed reflections of real form, the ideal form exists in the mind of the creator.” As the movie or game continues the people playing the game starts to realize that they have been thinking that the game is starting to become actually real. You can tell that the game is still continuing because the sudden shift of moments, and forms of identity. What made it feel like reality was the constant asking of fixing the game with different types of pods.
The game TRancendenz fit because the characters couldn’t tell the difference between reality and virtual reality. It relates to platos saying of “They will wonder if other things are real or illusions.
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