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Actors: Malgorzata Foremniak, Dariusz Biskupski, Jerzy Gudejko
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Avalon
AVALON was directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) in 2000.

Ash is one of the best players of the illegal video battle simulation AVALON. Between two missions, she uses to visit Murphy at the hospital. Murphy's brain didn't bear one of Avalon's mission and collapsed. One day, her friend Stunner tells Ash that she should find the doorway to the upper level of the game where Murphy is maybe blocked in. Helped by the master of the game and by Bishop, Ash manages to kill the shadow of one of the Nine Sisters who rule Avalon's last level. As this A level is called "reality level", soon Ash doesn't know what is real anymore. She meets Murphy there and both know that the only way to log off from Avalon is to kill the other player.

--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar


Analysis of Avalon
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%



**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Robots & Computers & VR Yes
Plotlet: - virtual reality movie

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (woman) medium/shoulderlng, straight
Body type - average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more... - irritated
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - bald
Hair style - bald (man)
Body type - average build (man)
How much in movie? - 20%

Main Adversary
Identity: - a fight for survival

Setting
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Big cities? Yes
In virtual reality? Yes
Misc settings - mental hospital

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie - depressed/sad
Non-American film? Yes
Subtitles? - Yes
Kinds of F/X - exploding vehicles
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical
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