If you loved Paragraph 78: Film One, try Hooked on the Game

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Paragraph 78: Film One

2007 · dir. Mikhail Khleborodov

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Hooked on the Game

2009 · dir. Pavel Sanaev

What they share

Theysit in Action / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Paragraph 78: Film One, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Hooked on the Game is

You win a cyber sports tourney and get a CD of a game that turns your skills IRL. Then authorities co-opt you into service via blackmail. But you learn you're just a paid assassin. Sanaev's lens on early-aughts Russia implicates gamer culture in a new kind of arms race.

If you loved Paragraph 78: Film One, try Hooked on the Game

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