Jimi in the black Lodge?
Yesterday I saw Nirvana, an italian/french movie from 1997 (a good two years prior to the Matrix and Existenz, and one year before Dark City). Nirvana is an existential sci-fi flick; the characters constantly wonder about the nature of existence and wheather or not the game can be stopped.
In Nirvana, videogame and reality are not really that different, and they even get mixed up; reality increasingly looks like a game, and viceversa.
The movie is good fun, it is probably not a masterpiece (this is not Existenz, although some people say Existenz is boooooring) but still has some interesting philosophical details and is very psychedelic (especially the Bombay City setting).
What is interesting to me is that a bunch of similar movies (as I said, Nirvana, Existenz, Dark City, Matrix, 13th Floor, and possibly more) all came out around the same time. It simply makes me wonder…
Here’s the torrent, my children!
Tags: videogame
