What Is Living?
This PS3 ad was banned in the UK, which should finally settle the question of whether the Advertising Standards Authority or the FCC is more oppressive. The real news, however, is that the ad is awesome. Or maybe I’m just a sucker for the futility of life genre, also used to great effect in this recent Onion article.
August 21st, 2007 at 11:09 pm
You know, as a short film I think it works well. But are you sure its a PS3 ad? I mean, maybe if he whipped out a dual-shock at the end instead of a pistol. But maybe I missed the subliminal “buy a ps3… please!” message hidden in the background.
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I think it was displayed alongside some text on a web page. Presumably the text said something like “Shoot people! Also, buy a PS3! But don’t shoot people and steal their PS3!”.
I don’t know. I’m actually glad it doesn’t make me want to buy a PS3, because they’re expensive!