Ash earns his living playing at Avalon: a violent game and illegal. It ranks among the best players of Avalon, which admiration of his colleagues even more, it's a woman and she plays alone. All his world is rocked, the day when another player, more exactly a Bishop (priest), are sprayed score. Avalon is a film that is based on mechanisms for players of any game in the world persistent virtual mixing codes MMORPG and FPS like "Counter Strike" and "Word of Warcraft. It creates a character, we joined a" team "and you climb to reach the level of" quests "and" objectives "the most challenging games. But the Avalon does not tell stupid course of a typical hard gamer. This film also explores the introspective side of the player, when he realizes his desire to to "finish" with the game because it brings him nothing. At that moment there, a game worthy of the name, revives interest in providing an ultimate goal, a quest for God, a holy grail
Avalon and mystery
Avalon borrows its mythology tales and Arthurian legends. Morgan le Fay is personified by a young child to look ghostly. Presented first as a bug, it turns out to be the gateway to the ultimate level: the actual class. On the play, hangs like a death threat. Players will log directly from their brains, many become vegetables. We then say that their souls left on the island of Avalon. An experimental film
The image is processed in sepia, with reflective light effects. The same type of report that will be used, some years later for the game Call of Duty (released in 2003), and they are always so many since. The long sequence shots are replacing lengthy philosophical discourse, and questions about "reality": What is real, where does the virtual and real life or finished? The aesthetics of the film is supported by the music here, neo classical Kenji Kawai, a famous Japanese composer who has worked for Oshii (So you do not mention the wonderful Soundtrack Ghost in the Shell ). He is known for its music off a strange atmosphere, cold and hypnotic. The music is a key element of the film is doing sometimes gently, sometimes warrior, she is like the sirens, creating an enchanting atmosphere.
It reproc he often film, its slowness, and his script foggy or too intellectualized, incomprehensible or pompous for the uninitiated to virtual worlds. Oshii to spend three years of his life not only play video games. A loner and shy, he never rubbed loved the crowds, and it's always felt different from others. More likely it's natural to think that each of these works are pretexts has real introspection and Avalon is no exception to this rule. Avalon is undoubtedly one of his most personal .