1/🧵 “Tetris” shows up as a spy story that nobody expected 🎮 the movie takes us back to 1988 when henk rogers, a video game developer, sees this simple but addictive game at a trade show in las vegas, he quickly falls in love with it and wants to get the rights to sell it, but things get messy when he finds out the game was made in the soviet union 🕹️ taron egerton plays henk with so much energy that you can’t help but root for him, the story mixes cold war tension with business deals in a way that keeps you watching 🎬
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2/🧵 the business side of this gaming story gets wild 💼 henk has to deal with robert maxwell and his son kevin, two rich british guys who think they can buy anything they want, the maxwells use their money and connections to try and stop henk from getting what he wants 🤝 meanwhile, nintendo shows up with their secret weapon, the game boy, which makes everything even more intense, watching henk try to navigate all these deals and double-crosses feels like playing a high-stakes game
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3/🧵 looking at the soviet union part of this computer tale is super interesting 🌟 alexey pajitnov, the guy who made the game, can’t even profit from his own creation because of communist rules, the movie shows how messed up the system was 🏛️ we see government officials acting tough but taking bribes under the table, the whole thing shows how both capitalism and communism had their own problems, watching alexey deal with all this red tape while his game becomes huge is pretty sad
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4/🧵 this puzzle piece story gets pretty fancy with its style 🎨 the movie uses 8-bit graphics to show scene changes and locations, it feels like you’re watching parts of an old school video game come to life 🌆 there’s even this wild car chase where everything turns into pixel art, it’s like watching someone play a classic nintendo game but with real stakes, the music also uses remixes of those classic russian songs everyone knows from the game
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5/🧵 when you look at how this gaming adventure ends 🎯 it’s pretty clear the movie wants to say something about how video games helped end the cold war, even if that’s a bit simple, watching henk and alexey become friends while dealing with all this crazy stuff is what really makes it work 🤝 the whole thing comes together like a perfect game of the famous block puzzle, with all the pieces fitting just right in the end, showing how something as simple as a video game can bring people together
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