Masha du Toit

I had such a strange experience watching the movie Free Guy on the flight back from Istanbul.

As the movie started, there was a voice over describing everything that happened. I thought that I’d accidentally switched on an accessibility feature, but there didn’t seem to be any way of disabling it. Then I remembered the Mark Kermode review of the movie, in which he commented that the constant voice over actually worked for him.

So I watched it like that, and it was quite interesting, I thought the constant voice over description added to the virtual world /real world layering of the plot, and it was like being able to hear the thoughts of the main character, especially the times when the description was slightly ahead of the action.

But later I went to check the Kermode review, and it turns out my memory was fake. And now I’m fairly sure that the voice over was an accessibility feature, that I must have switched on accidentally!