A
Science Fiction movie by
Bruce Wagner, with
Oliver Stone as
producer, set in the
near future. Four different
Directors, with
William Gibson appearing in one short scene at the beginning. Starred
Jim Belushi,
Angie Dickinson and
Robert Loggia . It ran for five nights in a row on
Network TV back in 1993, two hours each night.
This movie is a
monster, around 6 hours long. Hard to find on
Video, but worth searching out. One of
those films that
means more with each viewing.
Also stars
Kim Cattrall,
Dana Delany,
Nick Mancuso,
Robert Morse,
David Warner,
Ben Savage, and
Bebe Neuwirth.
Deals with
Virtual Reality,
Cyberspace, the
Politics of technology,
Holographic Television,
mind control,
conspiracy,
media manipulation,
psychotropic drugs that make
VR seem real, and a
evil Senator who is
totally insane who wants to
upload his brain to a
computer to attain
eternal life.
Twisted plot lines,
violence,
sadistic murder, kidnapped
children, great
soundtrack, powerful
virtual reality death scenes, and introduced
the Wilderzone, which is much like Gibson's
Sprawl.
Don't read if you have not seen the movie.
A painter with
connections to the resistance, called
the Friends, has
his eyes gouged out by a woman, and then returns the favor later, now able to see, using
Virtual Light goggles, modified to
jack in to his
brain.
The movie is set in
SoCal, and retro sixties is the happening thing.
Virtual TV and
manipulation of images, along with
drug use, allows
VR without a headset, marketed by the Corporation (
Channel 3) that wants to run the world. The first show is
Church Windows, but is only a vehicle to get the
simstim units in to every household. The
Government denies Channel 3 a
monopoly on the technology, reminding me now of
Microsoft, which is interesting in retrospect, because the
browser and the
Web didn't exist yet.