The nudity is really brief and alone isn't the problem. The problem is that woman are pretty much treated like meat or rather worse then meat. They are injured made to do provocative poses while doing simple things and are pretty much slaves. In one disturbing scene a woman who is rollerskating (while throwing/swaying her ass in front of the camera is controlled to deliberatly target another woman walking in the street where they crash pretty hard. the walker has an abrasion and I'm gussing the other woman is out cold on the street floor were the controllers of the woman are just LULZing. The woman are treated like finger puppets and not even viewed as living humans.
It's kinda like playing skyrim where you save your game and just go crazy killing the entire town your currently in (Well skyrim doesn't allow you target and kill children strangly but doesn't blink when you off their their hot young Milfs). Point is no one sees the charactes on screen as representations of human beings but instead as polygons and texture maps. In this film even though the audiance is playing actual human beings they still have the mentality that the characters in the game even represent real people. IE you can expect that if players get board of their characters no one would flinch if the characters were marched off a building. Society seems to be a paradody of the game "second life"'s treament of female characters by what I am assuming is a male dominated player base.
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/features/report/4285/second-life-what-went-wrong/
Warning contains disturbing scenes.
The male Soldier characters are treated as if they have value though as the controllers of the plays are competing and want to keep their playeers alive as long as possible. The muslim woman crossing the street with jars on their heads are not so much on the other hand.
So yea just about every one should disturbed by this film. My take is the writers were not gamers and disturbed by how gamers just play games like Grand Theft Auto and noncholantly commit murders and still cars and wanted to translate that distrubing feeling to the big screen so we could all feel it. Gamers included.
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