Tron and the users
Saw yesterday, for the first time in (too many) years, Tron (while eating foie gras, it was great). It’s still very beautiful and since the last time I have seen Aelita, Metropolis, etc, so that beauty is not so alien anymore. What was striking this time : the religious and a bit silly relationship between the program-characters in the virtual world and their users in the flesh and blood world and the fact that those users are also the programmers. There is no difference between those two categories, it was the beginning of the eighties. Surely, the film would be very different today. Also suddenly the temptation of making a new audio dubbing for the film to make it more precise : ins’t it after all the political struggle of free softwares against a big bad corporate and proprietary Master Control Program with a lot of security issues?