world open a new door for escape to Victor through non-personal
communications, e-mails and instant conversations. He confuses reality
because, nowadays, when it is often the case that characters on-screen are
all we have to meet, communicate, identify and become intimate with, only
the faith and confidence in receiving the true 0s and 1s makes possible such
relations. Victor (un)consciously avoids questioning the information received
from the screen and in consequence he becomes confused; for better or
worse trusting in his own hopes and desires, in his own constructed
(un)reality.
Luna reveals that if we want to believe, we can believe, and if we
prefer to admit an unreality we will find the necessary resources in
technology to make (un)real our mental representations. As Sherry Turkle
suggests illustratively, if ironically: ‘On the Internet nobody knows you are a
dog’ (1997: 263). The film culminates by raising the question of a dream
state, something that is directly linked to the moment in which Victor wakes
up and then contemplates his face at the mirror in the bathroom, moments
before Luna faints. He looks at himself trying to find out if he is awake, and,
trying to certify his feeling, he touches his face and rubs his eyes, but nothing
seems to offer definitive proof to differentiate his dreams from reality. The
film creates a duality in that moment, urging the audience to question
whether the following scenes can be interpreted as reality or part of his
dreams.
Luna is a project that translates the abstract notions investigated by
this thesis into a practical and familiar context. Placing these concepts within
such a framework they arguably become ‘alive’: they can be interpreted and
analyzed in order to question the hypothesis that the confusion of reality and
unreality is a phenomenon that has recently acquired new and peculiar
characteristics. In this respect, the film responds affirmatively,
demonstrating, by way of an ‘ordinary’ and tangible experience, the causes,
morphology and consequences of such confusion.
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