This is an update on a report I gave earlier regarding a science fiction film hitting the theatres this fall.
Surrogate is a film about people using robotic avatars to live in the real world while they control them through mental cybernetics at home. When you watch the trailer embedded below, you can see how the characteristics and conventions of avatars in virtual worlds, such as Second Life, as well as the hopes and fears of what such avatars can do, are interestingly played with to produce a moral play about the dangers of not being yourself in reality…
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