Avalon story
Avalon (Japanese: アヴァロン, Hepburn: Avaron), also known as Gate to Avalon, is a 2001 Polish-language Japanese science fiction drama film directed by Mamoru Oshii and written by Kazunori Itō. Synopsis: A player in an illegal virtual reality video game has her sense of reality is challenged as she attempts to unravel the true nature and purpose of the game.
6 total · 1 choice · 1 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| speculative virtual reality | choice | A main novelty of the film is that it is set in the highly realistic military-themed virtual reality shooter game "Avalon". |
| escape from reality | major | Explained in the film's open blurb text was that young people were dealing with their disillusionment by playing a virtual reality war game. The heroine of the story Ash was one of these people. In the end, Murphy decided he'd preferred the "reality" of the game to the reality of the outside world. |
| Ancient Norse mythology | minor | Ash related the story of Odin drifting across the sea to a remote island where he was given a ring that granted him immortality and eternal youth. |
| the horrors of war | minor | The film opened with scenes of civilians suffering in war. |
| the legend of King Arthur | minor | A priest recanted the story of how a dying King Arthur was taken by ship to the isle of Avalon to see the fairy Morgan le Fay. |
| what if I was trapped inside a game | minor | Ash discovered that the only way to exit the "Class Real" stage of the "Avalon" virtual reality game was to complete it. |