the rut so many young men find
themselves trapped in today’s
uncertain world, and how so
many men (some women, grant-
ed, but this is predominantly a
curiously male phenomenon)
seek refuge in childish delights.
Today we have a generation of
grown men who refuse to act
their age, spending their days
playing video games and watch-
ing children’s movies rather
than embracing the possibilities
of life as an adult. Oz’s favor-
ing playing a video game over
spending time with a girl as be-
guiling as Tess says it all really.
Perhaps Oz, and the young men
of his ilk, embrace video games
because they promise an end
point. Unlike life, they can be
conquered if you can figure out
the formula, if you take the right
turns at the right moments, and
where the real world is a beast
that morphs in uncertain ways,
a video game never changes,
and you get more than one life
to make mistakes. Like his name-
sake in the 1939 movie, video
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