Videogames help to reconstitute a family in Real Steel
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The ability to play video games is crucial to recapturing a father's love
- from Real Steel (2011)
- Creator: Shawn Levy
- Distributor: Touchstone
- Posted by Critical Commons Manager
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A video game controller helps a family to form
by Critical Commons ManagerEach member of the new family formed in Real Steel has emerged from adverse circumstances. Technology, which is often figured as the destroyer of domestic harmony is here positioned in an entirely positive role. The ability to play video games is taken for granted, as is the related ability to control a giant metal robot.
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