One MOVIE, Two Takes: ‘TETRIS’ | Set in the 1980s, Tetris, a new movie on Apple TV+, based on a true story, is more of an industrial thriller than a historical biopic, while providing the right amount of nostalgia.
Game is up: Taron Egerton plays Henk, a Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur, in the movie Tetris. Photo: Angus Pigott/Apple TV
It was originally designed by Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian computer engineer who does not own the rights to sell his video game under Soviet-era laws. Henk tries to smuggle the rights for Tetris out of the USSR, while brokering with a British company as well as Nintendo. Tetris does a great job of piecing together the individuals who thought they had the rights to the game, yet didn’t, the push and pull between communist parties and capitalist parties and the big businesses battles.
Tetris transitions from place to place with pixelated video game maps and sequences, and is punctuated with video game beep-boop sounds and suspenseful synths. If you’re like me and have no clue about the game, it was designed in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian software engineer. What I found interesting was the brotherhood that develops between Henk, a Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur, and Alexey , a Russian computer designer, seeing how two different economic systems — capitalism and communism — merge for a common purpose. On one hand you see the adversity that comes with living in a communist society where you can’t own your intellectual property.
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