VIRTUAL SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

The main theme the author and screenwriters wanted to convey was the negatives of Virtual Reality. The movie itself is based off of Kelley Eskridge’s Solitary, which is about virtual solitary confinement. We see Ren struggling with allowing OtherLife to become a virtual confinement product, but her business partner Sam wants to take a government contract that will give the company much needed capital, in return for a solitary confinement program. In an interview, Eskridge says “that technology is constructing increasingly lonely worlds for humans to inhabit.” and that, “the central idea of virtual confinement, and Ren’s emotional journey are what I thought was important to carry over into the film”