As already stated by a number of other reviewers this movie is virtually (pun intended) unknown to a broader audience/viewer base which is a pity, a huge one. I consider myself to be quite a connoisseur of weird, twisted, mind-bending movies in general, there are almost none that i haven't stalked out so far... the greater was my surprise when "by accident" i stumbled upon this unknown "little" gem last year or so, it took me quite a while to get and watch it and - I was literally blown away. THIS seems to be the very first ever movie addressing the idea of a fractal-like layered "reality" that reflects upon itself to find out that itself is just another simulated virtual layer of some supposedly "real" super-reality on top of it... The 13th Floor? The Matrix? Existenz? And any other movie addressing this theme? compared to this one they are all just mere spin-offs with better special effects, everything substantial was already said in 1973 by R.W.Fasbinder. If you really dare to go to the lowest level of the cinematic fractal rabbit hole embracing the ideas first introduced most probably by Philip.K.Dick in the late 50's and then perhaps more famously re-iterated in D.F.Galouye's 1964 "Simulacron-3", R.W.Fasbinder's Welt am Draht is the very first stepping stone - correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt I am. Definitely worth the 3+hours of your life if you are into this kind of stuff... I just wonder if Nick Bostrom watched it before formulating the now famous Simulation hypothesis of Reality ;-)
Review of World on a Wire
