OtherLife (2017)
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.
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Overall, a good sci-fi and a neat world, but as other users pointed out, felt the ending was quite weak. Also, although the runtime is only about an hour and a half, it felt much, much longer (and like the movie should have ended 30 minutes before it actually does).Ultimately, Black Mirror has been there, done that, but better and more compellingly. Still glad we are getting more of these type of smaller-budget films with interesting premises. In a similar vein, I also watched ARQ, which I thought was a bit more fun to watch (although ARQ is also a premise we have seen many times, done better)
Watching this, I got a feeling it was from the makers of Black Mirror, but seeing it wasn't I was surprised they managed to capture the same feeling as the Black Mirror series. The story is set in the near future when biotechnology is further along and can produce memories from drugs, creating a false memory in just a few seconds of days-long vacations and other sorts.If you like Black Mirror, this is recommended. If you like this and haven't seen Black Mirror, you should watch it. If you don't like Black Mirror, this might be slow to watch. As with the Black Mirror episodes, it also gives you alot to think about, and a deeper meaning to it rather than just another movie.
A real snooze fest. I gave up 22 minutes in. The movie was going nowhere, literally... we were trapped in the "lab" building so to speak with endless scenes of vials with automatic squirting fillers doing something but who knows what, it was never explained. In fact, pretty much nothing was ever explained, it was all just mysterious "we can do this that and the other thing just by saying it". The brother, who presumably has been in a vegetative state for a while, looks like he just stepped off the cover of GQ and laid down in a hospital bed for a quick nap before going to his next model shoot. The Main girl scientist? programmer? savant? went around looking all pouty while her boyfriend was forced to party without her yet of course the boyfriend was not moving on. And in this world of presumably micro this and that since we are dealing with literally molecular level adjustments in the brain the girl can just intuit the "numbers" as if being "close enough" for brain surgery (by chemicals) is plenty good enough. There was not even a pretense of "science" presented, it's all just wave your hand and "make it so" movie science. Really, it's just boring boring boring. How anyone found this turkey compelling is beyond me.
Evidences of the insinuation is made through technological manifestations of induction and severely the perception of all the proceeding is made by the faces of fame; the perfect environment to which the plot is made to the values of production in which the imprisonment of these realities are intriguing manifestations of the OtherLife; participants are then subjugated to communicate the chores trying to break free of the currents resulting from the assimilations in real time;