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| Title: Welt am Draht (World on a Wire, 1973) Genre: Science Fiction Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Written by: Daniel F. Galouye |
World on a Wire! This isn't only a good movie, but also a great drinking game
. When a character turns dramatically to the camera, drink.(I do not endorse excessive drinking, yadda yadda, moderation etc.)
What it's about
A program that is basically a hyperrealistic version of the Sims, with each Sim being a fully developed AI, is run on a supercomputer. None of these Sims know that their world is just a simulation.
Vollmer, the technical director finds out some incredible thing and tells it to a dude, who then prompty disappears without anyone even remembering the guy. (Also Vollmer dies and the protagonist, Stiller,
takes his place)
Stuff happens and metaphysics ensues.
Why I think it's so great
Though the setting didn't age too well (early seventies retro-futurism is really adorable now
), the story certainly did; and boy is it a good one. It's been done, yes, perhaps (probably) better, but I enjoy the way it's done here. With a runtime of 205 minutes it has plenty of time to pace the story and let the plot unfold without taking away from the characters (unless they're oh so mysterious *cough* Eva *cough* 
).Should you watch it?
This is a recommendation Series. I don't know why I even ask this question
. Get alcohol and weird friends. Do the drinking game. They do less of the dramatic chipmunk style turns in the second part, so you'll have time to recover before it ends 
.Hardcore variant: drink for every mirror. ...no, actually don't. I think you might die. There's lots of mirrors. This might make a good game too, if you aren't into drinking: try to find the camera man being reflected. He is visible on occasion
(no peeking on imdb!).The mirrors are actually a cool way to make the viewer question reality an disorient him. That too, is pretty dope.
And then?
I mentioned it's basically a story as old as time, or well, computers. So have some more computery scifi: Alphaville (1965), Tron (1982), Ghost in the Shell (1989), eXistenZ (1999), The Matrix (1999)And of course the 1999 movie The Thirteenth Floor, which was also based on the novel Simulacron-3.
Available on
Hulu
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