I forgot which blogger recommended this old film, so I downloaded the resource with great interest and then put it on hold until the end of the year to watch it.
The plot and scene cuts at the beginning of the movie are very interesting. The film was produced in 1999, when scientists Douglas and Fuller built a virtual world together in a luxurious downtown mansion - Los Angeles in 1937, and they could download it through a machine to enter the virtual world. Suddenly one day Fuller was murdered and all the evidence pointed to his colleague Douglas. At the same time, a beautiful woman appeared immediately claiming to be Fuller's daughter, so Douglas went to the virtual world to find the answer in order to prove his innocence.
Back to the future or past plots are not uncommon these days, but this old movie has a special temperament of its era. In the film produced in 1999, Los Angeles is full of skyscrapers, but the lights are only like stars, gorgeous but not bright enough. The design of the office building in the city center is full of dark avant-garde, minimalist technology style with ancient brick walls, the fusion of modern and traditional is really fresh, the male protagonist is walking in the long and narrow corridor wearing a dark textured shirt, like the whole master of the world. The past of 1937 is full of old movie tones, dimly lit lights, and pedestrians are in a hurry, even as an off-screen audience, it suddenly feels like a flash in.
He was wronged and had confused memories in his heart. Rather than wanting to clear his suspicion of murder, he actually wanted the truth behind it, the truth behind the familiar memories. The most terrifying thing about people in this world is that when you realize that other people's world is an illusion, this illusion will eventually spread to yourself. He stood at the end of the world and watched a large piece of fluorescent lines disappear into the border. He finally realized that he was just a line of code in this virtual world.
This movie doesn't have the splendid world jumps and fights of The Matrix. The slowly changing electronic sound rang out, and he was downloaded and transmitted to the past in a virtual ocean of green ripples, or returned to the present, so I always feel that this film has a particularly solemn elegance, and it explores the relationship between man and nothingness more deeply. Two-way mapping and backlash are also very clever to provide reminiscent of open endings.
After watching this movie, I couldn't help but think that in the time period when the centuries met, there were so many movies and novels that had fantasized about the various things that technology 3.0 brought us too many times. They put their future expectations in 2024, 20XX, and now in 2018, we are still walking slowly on this road, and it seems that too much imagination has been lost, and even the special effects are occasionally still half way, I am very ashamed. .
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