{"id":23956,"date":"2016-03-25T09:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/movie-review-virtual-reality-blurs-the-line-in-creative-control"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:45","slug":"movie-review-virtual-reality-blurs-the-line-in-creative-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/movie-review-virtual-reality-blurs-the-line-in-creative-control","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: Virtual reality blurs the line in \u2018Creative Control\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/movie-review-virtual-reality-blurs-the-line-in-creative-control2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some kernels of brilliance scattered amid the dead spaces of \u201cCreative Control,\u201d a microbudgeted techno-drama.<\/p>\n<p>In a near-future Brooklyn, marketing consultant David (played by Benjamin Dickinson, the film\u2019s director and co-writer) is assigned to create an ad campaign for Augmenta, a new form of augmented-reality glasses that will add a high-tech layer to the viewer\u2019s reality. After deciding to give a pair to a hip artist \u2014 in this case, the musician\/comedian Reggie Watts, here wittily sending up his own image \u2014 David starts noodling with a pair himself.<\/p>\n<p>While he ignores his flighty yoga-instructor girlfriend, Juliette (Nora Zehetner), David starts to create a sexy avatar based on Sophie (Alexia Rasmussen), the fashion-designer girlfriend of his best friend, Wim (Dan Gill), a philandering photographer. David and Sophie start crushing on each other, but it\u2019s nothing to the sparks David feels with her simulated version.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/entertainment\/3698158-155\/movie-review-virtual-reality-blurs-the\">http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/entertainment\/3698158&#45;155\/movie-re...-blurs-the<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some kernels of brilliance scattered amid the dead spaces of \u201cCreative Control,\u201d a microbudgeted techno-drama. In a near-future Brooklyn, marketing consultant David (played by Benjamin Dickinson, the film\u2019s director and co-writer) is assigned to create an ad campaign for Augmenta, a new form of augmented-reality glasses that will add a high-tech layer to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1509,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-entertainment","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67914,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956\/revisions\/67914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}