The arcade game in The Last StarFighter was a front piece, the internal (machinations) were more powerful than could be guessed at. The stored high score being beaten caused a signal to be sent to the military who the boy saw as space aliens (pre-programming through the media). The real test was suspension of belief, the moo-v could be seen as mass shooter programming, 'death blossom', 'give out death and then die,' 'glorious death of the samurai in battle'. Part of a whole trend of JapAmericanism's (East/West, two headed eagle) in the media. The eventual suicide wasn't implemented in the movie, the hero lives, it has been threatened to be corrected in the remake, series or whatever else isn't happening, after the 'creator' initiated a blocking of any remakes for decades (as if he could), now it seems that they lost interest in doing it.
The interlinked rendering computers are termed 'Render farms'. In the Matrix, humans are being farmed to render the Matrix, they are the (cattle of the) Render Farm. The Aliens metaphor is as the people who live in the pods are alien to their environment.
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