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    Strange Days


    Adam's Rating : 6     Rotten Rating : 59     Review Date : 3/19/10 2:06 AM        Bookmark and Share

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    This was one of the oddest films that I have seen in a long time. The story is set in an apocalyptic 1999 Los Angeles. Crime and rebellion are everywhere and Virtual Reality is the new drug. People's life experiences are recorded onto video using a technology developed by the government but now available on the black market. You can actually slip on a headset and step into someone else's life for a few minutes (or relive your own).

    That part of the movie was great and I wish that they had explored it further. There is a lot to ponder when it comes to the dangers of this kind of idea. Better yet, a crime is worked into the equation. The problem is all of the themes that are worked in (or in the case of religion, hinted at frequently) that the story seems to fall apart. At various times the movie is part Matrix, Crash, Escape from New York (particularly the constant crimes being committed just behind the lead characters) and Flatliners.

    Race is one of the more central themes in the movie and I wish that the director had made it more so. I would have subtracted some of the other themes and spent more time portraying how the races were far apart and why a specific incident in the movie was so important. The final scenes seemed rather... forced, including the silly final conflict.

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