Has anyone watched "World on a Wire" (70's German proto-Matrix)?
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Date: May 21st, 2014 7:34 PM Author: Sickened therapy resort
was it good? it seems to pop up a lot on "best-of" lists relating to sci-fi films, but 205 minutes is a big investment of time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire
"World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht), is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm, it was made for German television and originally aired in 1973, as a two-part miniseries. Starring Klaus Löwitsch, it was based on the novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye.
Plot
At the institute for cybernetics and future science ("Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung, IKZ"), a new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with over 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulacron..."
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2573387&forum_id=2],#25606616)
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