Intriguingly complex and philosophically frightening, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's cyberpunk thriller, World On a Wire, is a 3 and half hour trip into a world built and coded with lies.
Using the novel called Simulacron-3 as a faithful adaption with a human focus at the centre, it's a story that follows the downward spiral of a contracted cybernetics engineer, Fred Stiller, as he slowly and painfully realises that not everything is as it seems.
A cacophony of cognitive estrangement and unexplainable glitches in a system that fools the mind.
Rainer utilises interesting cinematography with a lot of emphasis on abstract framing that seems "offset" or "standoffish", almost like some form of observing or surveying the performances rather than being intimate with their emotions. I haven't really seen a film that brilliantly emphasises mirrors as a way to enhance the story telling, it's quite remarkable.
Strange visual themes that explore the idea of perfection (unrealistic amount of hot women, like wtf), exploring the implications of dissonance and surrealism in a world where the system just functions on what our world abides by (or imitates).
An unnerving principle behind the narrative truely provokes a hauntingly unfathomable question: Could we be in a simulation?
We know it's just entertainment but you can't help but exacerbate the notion of being unaware to something so daunting; it makes you question you're faith on what's real to you.
World On A Wire is a fascinating film that provokes a thoughtful but uncanny perspective at what virtual technology could be and how dangerously abusive it would be amongst the oblivious populace.
Yeah, sure, The Matrix was way better but this is still awesome too.
Using the novel called Simulacron-3 as a faithful adaption with a human focus at the centre, it's a story that follows the downward spiral of a contracted cybernetics engineer, Fred Stiller, as he slowly and painfully realises that not everything is as it seems.
A cacophony of cognitive estrangement and unexplainable glitches in a system that fools the mind.
Rainer utilises interesting cinematography with a lot of emphasis on abstract framing that seems "offset" or "standoffish", almost like some form of observing or surveying the performances rather than being intimate with their emotions. I haven't really seen a film that brilliantly emphasises mirrors as a way to enhance the story telling, it's quite remarkable.
Strange visual themes that explore the idea of perfection (unrealistic amount of hot women, like wtf), exploring the implications of dissonance and surrealism in a world where the system just functions on what our world abides by (or imitates).
An unnerving principle behind the narrative truely provokes a hauntingly unfathomable question: Could we be in a simulation?
We know it's just entertainment but you can't help but exacerbate the notion of being unaware to something so daunting; it makes you question you're faith on what's real to you.
World On A Wire is a fascinating film that provokes a thoughtful but uncanny perspective at what virtual technology could be and how dangerously abusive it would be amongst the oblivious populace.
Yeah, sure, The Matrix was way better but this is still awesome too.