OtherLife
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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- Cast:
- Jessica De Gouw , T.J. Power , Thomas Cocquerel , Tiriel Mora , Liam Graham , Clarence John Ryan , Hoa Xuande
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It's Difficult NOT To Enjoy This Movie
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Damn great movie! Had no idea what the plot was really about. Went on watching it anyway and did not regret it one bit. The storyline was both empathetic as well as nerve wrecking. Although I did guess the plot twist, I am really glad it turned out the way it did.
The beautiful Ren (is that supposed to be a name?) works at some company where she developed a "software" in liquid form that when put into a person's eye allows him to experience something for several hours or so, an experience that in real life only takes place during a minute or so. The company and it's product are called OtherLife because the plan is to offer people to experience their dreams. But financially the company isn't doing well, just as the release of the product will be in 5 days. Ren has a brother in a coma and she's "treating" him with the eye drops hoping we will snap out of it somehow by making him relive the same day of the accident over and over. At some point his eye twitches. Her father though is ready to pull the plug on the brother. One day, Ren's patient boyfriend finally gets to spend some time with her. She gives him an eye drop where he experiences some snowboarding. He grabs another vial hoping to relive the experience but instead grabs a vial meant for Ren's brother so this guy ends up dead. That allows Ren's partner Sam to get some investment from a jail company. The idea is to put people away in virtual OtherLife jails for years when in reality they are only "in jail" for a minute. And Ren is the first one to undergo this virtual conviction. She's sentenced to a year. Her cell has a wall made up of LEDs showing the day number. When 365 hits, Ren is ready to get out, but the counter tuns again to "1." Ren, desperate, manages to escape, only to find out she hasn't been in the lab but in some actual single cell room out somewhere. She escape the security people and meets up with a friend. She ends up making some interesting discoveries and will have to find a way to return OtherLife to its original purpose of improving people's lives.OtherLife features the lovely Jessica De Gouw and has an intriguing premise that it manages to work out more or less satisfyingly. The whole jail bit didn't really fit into and wasn't suited for the movie. But as many sci-fi movies of late, it offers so much more than the usual tired old storylines of other genres.
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;
I really enjoyed this film, Jessica De Gouw is so gorgeous female to watch out and a very good role performer. Se was very convincing as a computer programmer as good she were in other aspects of the film. At this time I'm reading Michio Kaku's "The future of the mind" and I feel so excited that a lot of this book pair the feature of this film.