games allow mild-mannered men like Oz to hide behind powerful personas , though at least Oz isn ’ t using such anonymity to harass people on the internet . Comparisons to David Cronenberg have been made thanks to the body horror element of Sequence Break , and there are sexualized images of human flesh mingling with wiring that wouldn ’ t be out of place in something like Videodrome , but Skipper ’ s film , with its brief 80 minute running time , owes more to The
Twilight Zone . It ’ s a parable with a message of advice for the viewers who may be drawn in unwittingly by its promise of an ‘ 80s aesthetic . While Ready Player One goes easy on its primary audience of pop culture obsessives , Sequence Break is far more scornful , like Rod Serling has come back from the grave to tell the young men of today to get a life , put the joypad down and call up that nice girl you like . Or as the film tells it , look between the ones and zeros .