Strange Days

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The hero, Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), is a disheveled, motormouthed Los Angeles hustler who hawks virtual-reality clips on the black market. In essence, he's a high-tech drug dealer, peddling discs that are actual psychosensual recordings of other people's experiences. He gets his clients to jack in, and they, in turn, get hooked on fantasy. When you consider that the root of all addiction (be it booze or heroin or pornography or movies) is the desire to replace the reality in your head with a different, more intoxicating one, this is a witty and resonant idea for a thriller. Strange Days is set in 1999, but the world it's about is, of course, our own. The movie, which is staged as a countdown to the millennium, creates a darkly logical extension of our media-wired culture of vicarious sensation seekers. It's as if Philip K. Dick had recircuited Brian De Palma's brain. [1]

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