Movie #336 ........................."R U There"

Movie #336 "R U There" is a movie we saw at the Chicago Film Festival, and because we were treated to a Q & A session afterwards with the director, that helped a lot in the enjoyment of the film. While watching it, it struck us as a rather slow moving film, full of awkward moments of nonactivity from the main character,lots of nature, passages in chinese (taiwanese), video game screens, games that the crew is playing , and animation of another world. I know, doesn't sound really exciting, and it really isn't, but excitement would go against what the film is showing ---------- it concerns all the ins and outs of a gaming competition, and the main characters all see the world mostly through the video screen --- and when one of them, Jitze, is walking outside one day, the world comes crashing in the form of a tragedy that he is a witness to, and he starts to question the inactivity of his life. In his pursuit of something more, he meets up with min-min, and things will never be the same. If this sounds intriguing at all, I'm sure you will like it (Dave thought it was a tad long, but we both thought the ending was good enough to get through the rest of it) A very valid, important theme in this day and age of video games.





Average rating: 2.866
I gave it 4 stars.
R U There
(2010) NR
All Jitze (Stijn Koomen) does is play video games, and he's good at it. So good, in fact, that he makes a living by competing around the world. While in Taipei, he's sidelined by an arm injury, and in the downtime he meets Min Min (Huan-Ru Ke). Unable to escape into his games, Jitze finds that human contact isn't so bad after all. David Verbeek's examination of the virtual generation was an Official Selection of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Genre:Social Issue Dramas, Indie Dramas