
There apparently was in the 80s, a film produced by Disney Studios, which had a technological revolution: Tron, the first feature film to use computer imaging to design a building, fully virtual world! Although we have escaped at the time, today we find her offspring: Tron inheritance.
The story chronicles the reunion of Sam ( Garett Heldund ) with his father Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges ), a designer of genius locked up for 27 years in the virtual world he created. Passing through a hatch located in the false floor of an arcade game, Sam arrived in a world marked by white and red neon. No time to breathe, he's captured by four mermaids dressed with mechanical movements and swung into an arena where curious characters shapers clash by throwing Frisbees Glow in the cheers of an ecstatic crowd. Sat doing well, he knock out the pixel, all the characters he faces are indeed computer programs disguised in human form. Sat believed then recognize his father in the guise of the program Clu 2.0. It is the Avatar program's cantankerous father ... Rescued by Quorra ( Olivia Wilde, the number 13 by Dr. House), digital goddess, he will finally find her father, a kind of hermit who hears the sound of clouds in a psychedelic universe (he is suspected of having eaten too many mushrooms).
Three things strike in memory Tron made by the novice Joseph Kosinksi and produced once again by Disney. The first, the visual world, entirely light, neon white mark out roads and costumes, are evil for their redder colors and the background of this universe of straight lines is a black jays opaque turning blue coldness of death. The care taken in these sets, costumes, bikes and futuristic vehicles is a source of satisfaction to the eye. Special effects that have been entrusted to Digital Domain of James Cameron are reflective of the structural envelope of the film successful. After the eye, the ear that is marked by a soundtrack composed entirely by Daft Punk (also appearing behind the decks at a nervous sequence of the film). If it prints the film's atmosphere of constant dramatic tension, it also has the disadvantage to be a little loud and give the feature the appearance of a large clip tribute to DJ duo. The third thing is that captures the low scenario. The ambitious scope of the shape, energy, money spent (not less than 13 million just for the costumes) have been detrimental to the bottom. It's so square it becomes a little jerk. Passing the fact that there is an esoteric fantasy Matrix where one retreats into his own inventions, the peak of the plot seeing confront the designer and his program is despairing of formality banality. Attempts to infuse emotion into the frame are equally futile.
There is not really a revolution with this legacy Tron. The visual effects are stunning, almost monochromatic envelope is just as, even though it's hard to imagine a computer circuit, there is a vertical, linear figures, curves and straight lines rather startling . However, it is necessary to make a good movie, the correlation of two concepts, the combination of substance and form united in a single expression. While the story itself is often an excuse to create but then it becomes a handicap as it ridicules a little formal demonstration. Would that the vision of the cultural heritage of Flynn condensed into a row of books or aged by the time the original myth of the genesis through apple which looks at his reflection Clu 2.0, both of scriptwriting are really indicative of the false memory universal digital obliged to have the founding events of humanity that fragmented view.
Released in France: 09/02/2011