It’s counterintuitive, using a video game for this purpose gaming has its roots in logical, if idle, pastimes: cards, dice, chess. With Level Five, the Battle of Okinawa game is more parable than entertainment, a comment on the impossibility of altering - or even fully comprehending - historical tragedies that occur on such a mind-bogglingly massive scale. Before he passed away in 2012 at the age of 91, Marker had moved from making complex, spooky films to working with more modern digital mediums - recent works included a CD-rom that organizes memories using a computer’s filing methods and a recreation of a museum in Second Life. Both William Gibson and Terry Gilliam consider themselves fans - Marker’s 1962 black-and-white time-travel drama La Jetée directly inspired Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys.
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But of course no matter which button the woman presses, the history of Okinawa remains unaltered, and the movie hangs almost entirely on her attempt to finish the half-developed game.Ĭhris Marker, who was the subject of a retrospective at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York last month, rose to prominence in the ’50s and circled the subjects of technology and memory for much of his artistic career. It’s an odd little game, toggling between filmed interviews with survivors, stock footage of the battle, and blinking white squadrons cast across a top-level map on the battle’s titular island. The battle, which marked the last major bloodshed of World War II, claimed the lives of about one-quarter of the islands’ largely removed and peaceful population: the total body count included 12,520 Americans, 94,136 Japanese soldiers, and 94,000 Okinawan civilians. The winning scenario she’s looking for is a less gruesome end to the Battle of Okinawa, where soldiers and civilians facing certain defeat committed mass suicide. In Level Five, a movie first released in 1997 by the experimental French filmmaker Chris Marker, a young woman replays a World War II strategy game on an outdated computer again and again, working through various combinations of keystrokes in search of a different outcome, though it seems the game is hard-wired to only allow her one option.
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