Christian Bale in a Pac-Man cereal commercial,1983. For a fleeting moment, around the 0:13-0:14 mark (“crispy corn puffs”), the percussive jingle and weird frame rate combine with video compression artifacts to induce an almost hypnagogic trance. At the conclusion of my human life I hope to see those Ms. Pac-Man marshmallows raining slowly, ceaselessly into the cardboard abyss as tiny dancers in platinum-pink wigs usher me to the robot Elysium with their jazz hands.
