This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The most obvious theme here is TECHNOLOGY. Jenny willingly sends in her physiological evaluation and all requested vitals to an organization which she knows nothing about. We later find out that a younger participant in the program uses this information about Jenny's fears and physiological traits such as her empathy and sympathy against her. She uses this to scare the crap out of Jenny but also gain her trust as Jenny "adopted" Cassandra as a younger sister. Jenny tries to "humanize" Cassandra as she lacks many human traits due to being trapped in an augmented reality education system where she is also deprived of normal human conversations. This brings us to our second theme, EDUCATION. In the opening scene, we see a news interview discussing the state that our education system is in. The anchor listens to a man talk about how our education system in the U.S. is awful compared to those in China and other military power houses. This film really depicted the society we would live in if we adopted those all-informative, social interaction-lacking schools. This interview could also act as a foreshadow for the rest of the film. The school system may have changed in response of a request to increase the complexity of our education system. "If it's not broke, don't fix it." Arial even says the children aren't encouraged to communicate with each other unless it is necessary. That sounds like a joke to me. This is why these kids are so desensitized. The name of the program is actually called the POSTERITY PROJECT. It should be pretty obvious that education is a huge part of this film. Another theme I have discovered is THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY. Jenny is trapped in the virtual world so long, that she fights for her life in it. She doesn't realize that death in an augmented reality world wouldn't result in death in the real world. Maybe if she died in the augmented reality world she'd come back to reality. I think this film relates to the Black Mirror episode Playtest (also on Netflix). The episode Playtest also had a program that used your weaknesses to attack you in your most vulnerable spots, just as Cassandra did to Jenny. Jenny seems to be confused of what is reality and what is augmented reality. The next theme is CURIOSITY. This one is another obvious one. Jenny walks into the Posterity Project and puts on glasses that she hasn't been instructed to put on or even informed about. This starts Jenny's nightmare. Let's hit another theme, HELPLESSNESS. This shower scene which everyone is confused about doesn't relate to the plot at all. It relates to Jenny's soft spot. Helplessness, she knows the feeling so very well. She watched her dad die right in front of her knowing she couldn't do anything to stop it. We see another instance where helplessness is exemplified towards the end of the movie when the chaperones stumble upon what seemed to be a previous chaperone trapped in a locked room. There seems to be a way to get him out as there is a puzzle attached to the door, but Darby and the others find out the hard way that there was no possible way to help the man. This could've also made the augmented reality more "real" for Jenny as this feeling of helplessness has proven itself in the real world as well. Boom, another theme, FALSE SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT. When the 3 chaperones hear the voice over the intercom as soon as they break the ice, the voice uses positive, reinforcing words and phrases such as "Congratulations", and telling the chaperones that they are part of "saving our country's future". Tiggs even creates a sense of false accomplishment by saying being selected for the program makes her feel safe and important. But who knows, the other 2 chaperones could just be a part of the simulation too. The last theme I have found in the film so far is TRUST. Cassandra knows that the best way to gain someone's trust is to relate to them but also completely differ from them if that makes any sense. Familiar is comfortable, but opposites attract.. As soon as the 3 chaperones get put into the simulation, Jenny has to trust the other chaperones because they're the only ones she can relate too. Everything and everyone else is extremely unfamiliar and could be seen as a threat. This was probably in the film to create a sense of comfort for Jenny as it would be one of the most uncomfortable situations she'd ever experience. Cassandra used the method of relating and differing from Jenny that I talked about earlier as Jenny and Cassandra were always the odd ones out. They were always left out from the group. She also differed from Jenny in the way that Cassandra was a genius and Jenny couldn't even imagine what it would be like to live as a child prodigy. In summary, this film has many themes that take time to discover but hold great meaning. Confusing isn't always bad, it just means that you haven't acquired the knowledge to understand or appreciate something yet. Everything you'll every read or watch has great meaning and a purpose behind it. So if you found this movie confusing, watch it again, and again, and again until you've finally found a meaning that relates to you, and share it with people because that is how the education system should work. Our minds should flourish from the generosity and knowledge of others.

This movie is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I still can't believe that I've wasted 83 mins to watch this garbage. I saw this on Netflix and I was like "sounds pretty interesting", since I think reading reviews before watching the movie might affect the way I feel about this so I decided to give it a try without reading reviews firat... HUGE MISTAKE! Basically it's just a movie about 3 idiots running around in the basement trying to find a way out. The lighting is terrible and most of the shots looked the same, it looks like they use the same one clip many times(like the corridor goes dark clip). The movie makes zero sense. They never explained who the hell is the girl, where she from, why she doing this blah blah blah. It just confuse me. It's only 83 mins long but feel like 2 hours cuz it's slow and boring. There's no climax and just boring... PEOPLE PLEASE, I'd rather watch little pony than this stupid movie.

I am fairly easily pleased when it comes to movies, but this one became frustrating to watch with in the first 10 minutes.What is wrong with it? The story. Everything else about the film was OK like the acting etc. but the story was just plain stupid.When it started it was OK and logical, but it soon descended into a very poor storyline that seemed was financed because it could be made cheaply, regardless of content.Really you would be better off watching the commercials.

This is a typical -- watch it twice -- movie.A nice B movie with some head scratching at the end.----- SPOILER BEYOND THIS POINT ------There are small hints all the way through the movie. The Augmented Reality is the key to Questions that pop up in the first run.Keep an close eye on messages showed on the interface (glasses) they are not as random as they appear.At the end you figure out, that the "adults" are the the rats inside the lab controlled by the children. Because all they wanna do is play with their pets :D