LAWNMOWER MAN 2: JOBE'S WAR

LAWNMOWER MAN 2: JOBE'S WAR. Farhad Mann, dir. USA: Allied Films / Allied Entertainments, 1995.

Jobe from THE LAWNMOWER MAN attempts to become Messiah and virtual god in VR cyberspace. See for imagery of flying and freedom for kids inside cyberspace strongly contrasted with a cyberpunk world on the streets; n.b. Jobe's awesome power in cyberspace (and to do computer-mediated damage in the outside world) contrasted with the shots of Jobe apparently helpless, physically, as a legless and otherwise maimed man in a chair looking at a round console. For that last image, cf. and strongly contrast Cole being interrogated in the future underworld at the beginning 12 MONKEYS (1995), and passim. For motorcycles in cyberspace, cf. and contrast Tron. Note also imagery of hexagons and the cybernetic god idea in the ad slogan, which we write out as punctuated and capitalized: "GOD MADE HIM SIMPLE, SCIENCE MADE HIM A GOD. NOW, HE WANTS REVENGE."