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eXistenZ
Why this pick
Matches Strange Days’ tactile, disorienting vision of illicit immersive technology, with escalating paranoia and a grimy late-1990s physicality rather than clean futuristic spectacle.
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MOVIE1995 2h 25m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Thirteenth Floor
Why this pick
Its noir-inflected digital unreality, troubled investigator, and turn-of-the-millennium dread echo Strange Days’ blend of hard-boiled mystery and destabilizing technology.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
Why this pick
For Strange Days’ muscular 1990s thriller energy: a bruised, resourceful central figure, conspiratorial danger, and kinetic action with an enjoyably dark edge.
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Enemy of the State
Why this pick
Shares the urgent late-1990s surveillance panic, propulsive urban pursuit, and sense that powerful institutions can weaponize recorded images and personal data.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the last two days of 1999, Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone. As a group of criminals rob a Chinese restaurant, the event is recorded by a robber wearing a SQUID, an illegal electronic device that records memories and physical sensations directly from the wearer's cerebral cortex onto a MiniDisc-like device for playback. Lenny Nero, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer turned black marketeer of SQUID recordings, buys the robbery clip from his main supplier, Tick. Elsewhere, a prostitute named Iris, who is a former friend of Lenny's ex-girlfriend Faith Justin, is being chased by LAPD officers Burton Steckler and Dwayne Engelman. Iris escapes on a rapid transit but Engleman pulls off her wig, revealing a SQUID recorder headset.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ralph Fiennes
Lenny Nero
Angela Bassett
Lornette 'Mace' Mason
Juliette Lewis
Faith Justin
Tom Sizemore
Max Peltier
Michael Wincott
Philo Gant
Vincent D'Onofrio
Burton Steckler
Glenn Plummer
Jeriko One
William Fichtner
Dwayne Engelman