PEOPLE V THE STATE OF
ILLUSION
An Exclusive Interview with Austin Vickers, Producer.
By Megan Praat and Olivia Jensen
Bringing us into his world of questioning, Austin
Vickers, brought the world the movie "People vs. the
State of Illusion" to help us examine what occurs in our
life by looking at the thoughts we think in our mind. His
script and the characters he cast for the movie, play out
and shows the audience how our perceptions, beliefs and illusions actually form
what we create as our reality.
The storyline was based on a man named Aaron Roberts, who is a single father
struggling to keep his life together. He was making poor choices by drinking too
much alcohol and working overtime too much which brought his stress levels to
extremes; this caused him to act out in destructive ways. He blamed the world
around him for the way he was and what had happened to him in his life, instead
of owning up to his actions and his part in what he had helped to create in his life.
The two other main characters in the movie, who interact with him while he is
in jail, are the janitor and the guard who watches over his section. The guard
comes around to Aaron’s cell to harass him daily and taunts him in a mean way to
jab at his already frustrated life. The janitor comes to help him to see the truth
about his situation and the way he has been the creator of his life story.
It was interesting to see this movie play out because as soon as Aaron starts
to understand and take to heart the words of the janitor and reads a book that he
gives to Aaron, Aaron starts to see his life and the life around him through a different set of eyes. As Aaron starts to shift his perceptions of
the world around him, the world around him shifts too.
In a nutshell, this movie explores the power