Second Skin
For anyone who spends any amount of time online, you know how easily and effortlessly you can suddenly become isolated – from family, friends, life. If you’re one of the 50 million MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Player Game) enthusiasts worldwide, or if you’re one of the millions who are fascinated (or charmed or disgusted) by their virtual societies, you might want to see how far and fast this trend is expanding with the new trailer for Second Skin, the feature-length documentary from Pure West Films slated to premiere at South By Southwest next month.
By the looks of it, it’s got all the makings of one of those Good Fellas/Blow/Boogie Nights drug epics: innocent fun that escalates to dangerous addiction, some love and marriage and babies, good and evil, ultimate redemption, a killer score, and (somewhat unrelated) a handful of predictably awesome form cuts between human and avatar.
