Ready Player One - Personal Response

Ready Player One - Personal Blog:

Ready Player One is a film about a world that is polluted and destroyed, so people escape into a virtual reality, called the Oasis. The creator of the Oasis had died, and created a puzzle for people to solve, and the person who solves the puzzle gets to be the new owner of the company.

I think ready player one can connect with many people, but mainly the younger generation because it shows a technology development from where we are now. Even now, we have some of the technology that is shown in the film. This really proved to me how fast technology is developing and how much faster it could develop in the near future.

The film Ready Player One shows a world where everyone is almost completely living in the online world, the Oasis, and never leaves it except for toilet breaks, eating and other necessary life needs. I feel like this is what our world is starting to become, with people interacting less in real life, and interacting more online. This relates to me a lot, and made me think about how my world is changing as I’m starting to interact more with my friends online, even though I see them everyday at school. I talk to them online sometimes after school and on the weekends.

Ready Player One impacted on me a lot because of the inclusion of the virtual reality which made me realise how virtual, and unreal our world has become. For example, I could go see a certain sight, somewhere I’ve always wanted to go or a place that I find beautiful, or I could search it up on the internet to see it. The film impacted on my life by making me realise that seeing things in real life are far more beautiful than seeing them on a screen.

I’m a little bit scared for the future, because I don’t want a future where the beautiful things in life are shared on a screen. I want a world where you can experience things in reality, seeing things for how beautiful they are in reality, rather than how good they look on a screen.

The Oasis is a place where you can go anywhere you want, and it made me think of all the places I have inside my mind, that I can visit on days that maybe aren't as good as they could have been. These places are really beautiful, where nothing ever goes wrong, and all of the troubles and problems of the world disappear. There aren't any stresses or worries, and you I can just be free from the world I'm living in now if I want to. These are places that could only exist in my mind, unless The Oasis was a real place. The world in my head is so beautiful that it makes me happy and calm when I’m having a bad day, and they would be far prettier and they would make me so much happier if they were a part of reality.

Demon Road: Personal Response

‘Demon Road’ is about a 16 year old girl named Amber who inherited the demon gene from her parents. On her sixteenth birthday, she gets attacked, and she discovers her demon like features, red skin, horns, talons and sharp teeth. This is a bit of a contrast to her original character, who is portrayed as being weak and incapable of fighting, so it’s quite strange for her to suddenly be full of energy and she gets quite overwhelmed with the sudden power she gets. I can understand this as I am not that strong, and I would feel overwhelmed by suddenly being really strong and being able to protect myself. This is a good example of what happens when people suddenly get more power then they would usually have. They get overwhelmed and they sometimes don’t act the way they usually would. I feel like this could happen in the real world if a politician that didn’t have much experience was suddenly elected, there would be a lot of pressure put on their shoulders and they could get overwhelmed and not be able to think clear. Amber goes home to learn that her parents are demon that need to quench their thirst for power. They planned to eat her alive to gain her demon powers so they could keep on being immortal. In one way I don’t relate to Amber, which is good because I don’t think anyone would want their parents trying to kill them and eat them, so I’m glad my parents don’t. One of Amber’s parents friends, Imelda, who was also a demon, and was also supposed to eat Amber to gain her powers, didn’t want to continue living this way, killing innocent children again and again. She helps Amber escape her parents, and gets one of her friends, Milo to protect her. I really like Imelda’s character as she changes her ways as she was sick of the things she was forced to do. I feel like this really proves that if you are having a tough time, people will always be there to support you and help you get through it. I think it also proves the point that people can change their habits and the way they act which I think is really important to remember as if someone doesn’t like the way they are, or the way they act they can change something in their life that would fix that problem. Milo and Amber set off on the road to meet the Shining Demon, who they thought would be able to help Amber, since it was the Shining Demon who made her parents and their friends demons in the first place. Amber makes a deal with the Shining Demon and has to go find someone that broke a deal with him, and bring this guy back to the Shining Demon. They meet a young Irishman named Glen on the way. He had been cursed, and thinking he would die soon anyway, decides to join them. They go through Hell and back together. I can relate to this because I have been through tough times. Some I had to face alone, and they were much harder then the problems I faced with my friends when I had them to lean on where I knew I could trust them to support me. I can also relate to Glen, the young Irishman they meet, since sometimes I feel like I can talk a lot and be somewhat annoying, which is how Glen is portrayed in the book, but Glen and I telling corny and cheesy jokes and puns make up for the annoying qualities we have, since we can sometimes make other people laugh. I think it’s important for people to make others laugh as the world would be filled with sadness and there wouldn’t be any laughter anywhere.