This final Y2K science fiction made virtual reality almost real

I wanted to re-watch the movie The Sci-Fi Whiller Strange Days for a long time, but I kept forgetting because, frankly, I couldn’t remember the title. I finally came through it Holo And examine it, and I cannot stop thinking about it.

Although the strange days were issued in 1995, they appear to have come out yesterday. It is one of those rare old films that imagined technology Virtual realityOr VR, without turning it into a way to circumvent.

Strange days are held in 1999 Los Angeles during the last 48 hours of the millennium. Liny Nero, played by Ralph Venice, is a former policeman who is now wandering in an illegal virtual experience called employment.

A friend of Nero and his personal goalkeeper (Angela Basset) is trying to keep him in reality and out of trouble. They work together to track a rapist and a brutal killer – a man who uses VR operating tablets to record his crimes from his point of view.

The film was not lost any time that falls me in its amazing preparation: the opening scene is an armed robbery filmed in the perspective of the first person, as the thief runs out of the police and jumps from one surface to another. After that, I saw the tanks in the streets of Los Angeles and heard radio callers who announced that the world will end in midnight on January 1, 2000.

The strange days remind me of the best Black mirror The rings – all are very worrying and close to the home. Director Catherine Beglo was influenced by riots for 1992 and incorporated elements of racial tension and police violence into her work. The result is a movie that is sometimes difficult to watch, but it is impossible to look at it.

At the same time, strange days are based on passion. Nero (Finn) spends a large part of the film that recalls the memories of his failed relationship with singer FAITH (played by the actress who turned into Rock Juliet Lewis). He lies in bed while playing more than the happiest days, he can deceive himself to believe that he is skiing with faith again – until the disk stops yarn and opens his eyes, again at the present time.

“This is not just like TV,” Nero says, as it offers VR to one of its customers. “This is life.”

But the character of Bassette, a scene, believes, otherwise, at some point Nero’s confrontation with his association with his “used emotions.”

“This is your life!” Selling says. “Here! Now! It’s a real time, hear me? Real time, it’s time to get real, not run!”

While I saw strange days in 2025, I could not think about the ideas of the virtual reality devices present today. VR headphones like Meta Quest 3 and AR glasses coming from Google We have ever approached the film’s operating technology. And the overwhelming spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro You can make you feel that you really regain 3D memory. When I thought about the similarities between the current technology tablets and the strange days, I wondered whether the future wanted to chase him the past.

Although the special effects in the special day days are incredible incredible. When I tried the 1995 science fiction dust, such as infiltrators, Johnny Dhout, early pictures created by the computer, and the strange days went to a more practical approach: the characters turn into and outside the operating footage with the effect of a simple acting distortion, just as you find while watching home videos on VHS tapes. The views of the view are carefully designed, and the resulting shots appear to be seen through the registrar’s eyes.

Strange days are also characterized by prominent musical works. Juliet Lewis, with a characteristic of faith, pacates two PJ Harvey tracks in the shows on the screen that remembers the best in the 90s Grunge. Jeriko One (Glenn Plummer) offers a social comment in the music video. Contemporary artists APHEX Twin, Dee-Lite and Skung Anansie performs during the final work of the film, which is the Eve New Year in the center of Los Angeles. (He was Real concert With 10,000 attendees.)

Strange days It is an exciting movement and exploration of the mind of technology and memory. I am surprised that the box office fluctuation was in 1995, and I hope that it had received the recognition it deserves after that. However, I am happy that the masterpiece of science fiction is available for broadcast today. Although strange days are not the easiest title to be remembered, the movie itself is unforgettable.