dalweb

A Father’s Video Game About His Son’s Terminal Cancer

The film “Thank You for Playing,” which premièred at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, follows a young father who is making a video game about his terminally ill child. Joel Green was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2010, at the age of one. By the time the film’s directors, David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, first met him, in early 2013, Joel’s young body had been subject to more than three years of surgery and chemotherapy. The tumors had left him partially deaf and blind. At one point, he had to relearn how to walk. Other families might document and express a similar experience through photographs, home videos, written diaries, or poems. But Joel’s father, Ryan Green, is a video-game developer, and he decided to bring narrative order to the devastating chaos of his son’s illness using the medium he knows best.

Video games often provide a form of escape, both for their players and, at times, for their designers. But for Green “That Dragon, Cancer,” as his game is called, served an opposite purpose—as a way to invite others to share his real-life experience. An early demo of the game, released a few months after Green and his friend and development partner Josh Larson began work on it, in November of 2012, held nothing back in its depiction of the family’s plight. In one vignette, you sit, as Green once did, in a hospital room, which is quiet apart from the hum of inscrutable machines and Joel’s haunting screams. The game’s style is impressionistic (there are no features, for instance, on the face of Joel’s avatar), but the effect of a baby’s cries is undiminished in a virtual world. In video games, we have grown used to confronting the problems their designers present and solving them with relative ease, often via a gun’s sights, a shunted block, or a virtual key. In this scene, the problem is inescapable, and the sense of anguish when your attempts to calm Joel fail is grimly authentic. As the young boy bangs his head against the rails of his narrow cot, you hunt in vain for a button that might make it all stop. continua a leggere

Articolo di Simon Parkin su The New Yorker

43 commenti

Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Sample viagra scrive:

    Buy viagra now

    Viagra australia

  2. Drug viagra scrive:

    Buy viagra from canada

    Viagra next day

  3. Buy pfizer viagra

    Order viagra

  4. http://cialistodo.com

    A Father’s Video Game About His Son’s Terminal Cancer | Digital Narrative Medicine

  5. viagra no prescription

    A Father’s Video Game About His Son’s Terminal Cancer | Digital Narrative Medicine

  6. slots online scrive:

    online casino gambling

    play for real online casino games

  7. online slots for real money

    online casino

  8. tadalafil cialis

    tadalafil cialis

  9. buy cialis online reddit

    generic cialis tadalafil best buys

  10. female viagra

    viagra price

  11. viagra sample scrive:

    viagra online usa

    cheapest viagra

  12. viagra generic scrive:

    online viagra prescription

    viagra online pharmacy

  13. casino online games

    gambling games

  14. online casinos scrive:

    slots online

    free casino games

  15. online casinos scrive:

    best online casino

    slot machine

  16. casino online

    online casinos usa

  17. buy cialis scrive:

    buy cialis

    cialis 5 mg

  18. cialis buy scrive:

    cialis 5 mg

    cialis 20

  19. buy cialis scrive:

    cialis 5 mg

    5 mg cialis

  20. 20 cialis scrive:

    new cialis

    cialis internet

  21. new cialis scrive:

    cialis internet

    cialis 5 mg

  22. viagra cost scrive:

    viagra 100mg

    viagra pills

  23. house of fun slots casino

    Pick on the Internet Casino sites beside roomy additional compensation baccarat casino free sports bet fashionable gratuity for different member

  24. personal loans scrive:

    installment loans

    payday loans

  25. personal loans scrive:

    cash loans

    cash loan

  26. cash loans scrive:

    cash loans

    personal loans

  27. generic cialis scrive:

    cialis dosage

    cialis 10mg

  28. slot games scrive:

    online casinos for usa players

    hollywood casino online real money

  29. online gambling

    best online casino real money

  30. viagra viagra

    buying viagra online

  31. vegas casino online

    casino online slots

  32. online casinos for usa players

    win real money online casino for free

  33. vardenafil 20mg

    levitra 10 mg

  34. levitra pill

    vardenafil online

  35. levitra generic scrive:

    levitra pills

    levitra coupon

  36. Cialis in usa

    Viagra or cialis

  37. Cialis in usa scrive:

    cialis online

    generic cialis

  38. rx pharmacy scrive:

    canadian pharmacy online

    pharmacy online

  39. online pharmacy

    walmart pharmacy

  40. generic cialis online

    generic cialis online

  41. buy ed pills

    erectile dysfunction medications

  42. best erectile dysfunction pills

    mens ed pills

  43. generic sildenafil

    buy sildenafil

I commenti sono chiusi.