Concentration / Video Games: The New State of Mind

This is the creepiest video that I've seen in a while. Worse, no "acting" is involved. The clip showcases children playing video games, as an attempt to demonstrate the tremendous levels of concentration that they evince while playing.

The concept that these children demonstrate is not at all new to me; my family elevated sibling rivalry to new heights when we got in front of the tube for a game of Mario Kart. We would tune each other out with our focus as we shot missiles and navigated the track, occasionally mentally-switching (there's little true multitasking, after all) to either telepathically or verbally taunt our opponents. Yet, despite the familiarity of the idea, I am transfixed by the transfixed faces.

It's as if I am watching future serial killers at work. The photographer chose to leave in the diegetic sound of the video games and the children themselves: you can hear the gun shots and the screams; you can see the children's enraptured stares, their vacant half-smiles; they seem to be looking at you. You can hear them as they shout in the midst of their fervor. "Come back here and let me stab you." One boy stares hopelessly on as a tear slides from his left eye down his face, seemingly conjured by the bullet-ridden images that are literally being projected onto him. In truth, his eyes have probably been open too long. Honestly, I didn't even finish the thing: it was too much.

If you do finish it, please tell me what you think -- I'm curious!