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Alternate Reality

My favourite movie last year was Aftersun, a beguilingly simple story set in the late ’90s about Sophie, an 11-year-old girl on holiday in Turkey with her dad. Unlike Free Guy or Ready Player One, it doesn’t instantly seem relevant towards videogames, but allow me to convince you.

When you watch Aftersun, you aren’t seeing what happened on their holiday. The only evidence of that comes from a few short video clips recorded on a digital video

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