The movie now flickering on the screen fits right into the overall scene. His virtual world is devoid of rules. You might kill the next waiter you meet. Oops, I shot him. Instead of living in their own impotent bodies, they immortalise themselves within a new reality.
Fiction triumphs over fact.
Skandia doesn't work for every film, however. Its interior is too lavishly decorated, too bourgeois in its stylised classicism, and the theatre's precious textiles are proving difficult to preserve. Compare his ideas to those of Kubrick, who allegedly had a New York cinema's interior painted mat black for the premiere of Barry Lyndon , because the existing colours were too vivid. Uno Ohr n, who had assisted Asplund with the design of Skandia, went on to create Flamman. This sober, elegant space was far more in keeping with the films of the day.